The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

September 1994

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that have multi-purpose rooms which can be

reserved ahead of time. The big drawback to thi

option is parking availablity. So this option shoul

really be considered on a temporary basis only.

LA Fox provides a valuable service to its member-

ship. The first meeting I attended featured Adam

Greene, at the time one of the best-known xBase

developers in the country. Here was a man that

thousands of people have paid hundreds and

thousands of dollars to see, listen and learn from.

And I was seeing him for a mere $5.00 visitor’s

admission. Since then, our meetings have fea-

tured the likes of Dick Bard, Nancy Jacobsen, Lisa

Slater, Mike Feitman, John Miller, Ken Levy, Les

Pinter, and many others involved in the advance-

ment of FoxPro programming techniques. In our

newsletter, we try to provide the most up-to-date

information about the FoxPro community, program-

ming tips, hands-on product reviews, and other

items of interest. And among our ranks are several

published authors. I believe that anyone in the

group would be hard-pressed to find a better value

for their dollar.

All of this has been accomplished by the board

with little involvement from the membership. And

it’s all been relatively hassle-free. And perhaps

that’s part of the problem. But now it’s time for the

entire membership to get involved. We need to

find a new place to meet, even on a temporary

basis untill we can locate a permanent one.

We’re not locked into the third Tuesday of every

month (some of us might have to break old habits),

we not locked into specifically 7:30 (some of us

might have to reset our alarm clocks), and we’re

not locked into a specific location (some of us

might have to drive a little farther).

So help us out. You can reach us by calling Chuck

Williams at (310) 539-9439 I CID# 72330,2326 or

Barry Lee at (714) 968-4225 / CID# 72723,3422.

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Traversing the GP Fault (Con't from page 3)

Modify the “advanced chipset features” in the

CMOS/BIOS. Sometimes there can be conflicts in the

CMOS setup. To modify these features, follow these

steps:

1.

Press the escape sequence keys, during system

startup, to access the CMOS setup. On some com-

puters, this can be done by pressing the “delete” key

during system startup. Before proceeding, do a “print

screen” to the printer so you have a hard copy of the

original setup in case you need to recover it.

2.

Proceed to the “advanced chipset features”

section.

3.

Disable (normally with the Page Up/Page Down

keys) CPU Internal Cache, External Cache, System

BIOS Shadow, Video BIOS Shadow, and flip the Gate

A20 Option to “normal” (HIMEM.SYS has been de-

signed to use several different A20 handlers). Save

the settings and exit the setup.

4.

Next, re-boot the machine and start Windows.

You’ll notice that everything has slowed down sub-

stantially. Unfortunately, you’ll have to run like this

until you can determine that any of these settings are

not causing the GPF. In other words, if you’re still

getting GPFs, the original CMOS settings may not be

the cause. If you’re no longer getting GPFs, then one

of these features is causing the fault.

5.

Once that determination is made, turn these

features back on, one at a time , in this order: CPU

Cache, System BIOS Shadow, External Cache, Video

Cache, and flip the Gate A20 Option back to its origi-

nal position. As you turn these features back on, save

and exit from the setup, and reload Windows.

Make sure there are no incompatibilities in your

system. These incompatibilities may be in anything

from software memory address conflicts down to the

board component level. Some examples that immedi-

ately come to mind are:

1.

If GPFs occur in 386 enhanced mode, but do not

occur in standard mode, your system may have a

memory conflict in the upper memory blocks (UMBs).

To eliminate the possibility of a UMB conflict, insert the

following line in the [386Enh] section of the

SYSTEM.INI file:

EMMExclude=A000-EFFF

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