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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