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Subject: Re: Rebel 10 and system crash

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 15:42:24 10/23/98

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On October 23, 1998 at 18:30:01, Marc S. Levine wrote:

>
>I had the following problem after installing Rebel 10. Please HELP!
>
>
>First, my system:  Micron Transport XKE notebook computer, Pentium 266MHz, 128
>MB RAM, video card = NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD, Windows 98.  Computer is 6
>months old.
>
>Installation of Rebel 10 went without incident.  Installation created shortcut
>with path C:\REBEL10\REBEL.EXE W9.   This resulted in hash table size of 100MB.
>At this level, program started up fine, but then after a few moves, or in just
>exploring the menus, mouse pointer disappeared and system froze up.
>Ctrl-Alt-Del brought up task list and when I tried to end task on Rebel 10,
>screen went completely white and system did not recover.  Had to do a cold
>reboot.
>
>Then tried to decrease the hash table size.  Went down to 40MB.  Same problem,
>requiring cold boot.
>
>At this point it was clear that Windows itself had taken a hit and system was
>extemely unstable, crashing with other programs, usually indicating some problem
>in kernel32.dll.  System remained unstable (it seemed as if there must have been
>some corruption of the registry from all the improper shutdowns) and I finally
>formatted hard drive and did an emergency recovery from a back-up tape.  System
>has been fine since then.
>
>Please note that I have been running Rebel 9 with no problems on the exact same
>system for months.
>
>I'd appreciate any suggestions.
>
>regards,
>Marc Levine


With Rebel9 we sometimes advised to run START.BAT (located in the root
of the Rebel10 directory) with satisfying results.

Here are a few other hints we usually advice in case unclear troubles:

- Delete the configuration file REBEL.CFG
- Add the "V" parameter. Example REBEL.EXE V W

- Ed -



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