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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Silence and on this front. I like your info and I will try it out
over here. Is just that I rarely boot dos on this box .

	Tnks for the info!
	Amancio


>From The Desk Of Mark Mayo :
> On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Tnks,
> > 	Amancio
> > 
> 
> I was just wondering if you got a reply either way... I'm pretty sure it's
> not. I noticed, however, that if I run FastVid from a DOS boot, then do a
> "soft reboot = CTRL+ALT+DEL" the chipset/CPU isn't reset!
> 
> So I get nice fast video with my 82450GX chipset PPro. Happy. However, on
> several occasions, it has caused AccleX, xdm, fvwm to core dump -- to the
> point that xdm wouldn't even start up again :-(  If I do a hardware reset
> everything starts working again.
> 
> 
> Overall, _my_ system seems quite stable with the FastVid stuff turned on,
> but it does seem to be a problem some times...
> 
> -Mark
> > 
> > 
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