Subj : Strange error
To   : Marcus Roeckrath
From : Stewart Arnett
Date : Sat Nov 02 2002 02:01 pm

Hello Marcus.

24 Oct 02 16:24, you wrote to Tim Parsons:

 MR> Hi Tim,

 MR> Tim Parsons wrote to All on 18-Sep-02
 MR> Subject: Strange error

 TP>>  + 18:53:46 Begin, Portal of Power v0.63á9-GPT07
 TP>>  ! 18:55:18 GetESR: Error 11102 in 6

 TP>> I had gone into config and hit "Matrix options" by mistake. Any
 TP>> ideas?

 MR> You simply pressed F10 and then activated Matrix options?

 MR> Why should this a mistake? I tried and it worked without crash.

 MR> Please tell me whether it is repeatable and what you have done
 MR> exactly.

 MR> Greetings from Marcus

This morning I needed a node number and knew it was in the matrix, so I 
activated the matrix options and !!Zaaaappphh!! portal crashed !! After the 
restart I see the same error as above. This is the first time it has happened 
here, not that I go into the Matrix options very often, in fact I think this is 
the first time for about 18 months.

This system uses Portal v0.63B9-GPT07, running on OS/2 W4 under a dos session. 
SIO160 is the com driver, the machine is a ADM K6/2 500 on an sis chipped mb 
with 64M ram, 10 Gb Hd. It used to be the Linux box until I upgraded two weeks 
ago and used the remains for the BBS. Prior to this the BBS ran on an old 
Hewlett Packard Vectra VL2 (486 dx66) with 32 meg ram, the bios had been fooled 
into accepting the 10 Gb drive and it has run without problems for about three 
years with this setup.

There were no problems with the Matrix options on the old  HP 486, but there 
are on the K6/2 500 mb, so it looks like a timing problem with the newer cpu 
doing something before the program gets sorted out (possibly and old VB 
glitch?) Perhaps Tim is using a similar setup?

I am rather loathed to change a running system that has given no problems in 
the past and not too keen to go back to the old 486, perhaps the above will 
give you some clues as to what is the cause of this error.

Best Regards,
Stewart

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