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   From: Peter Flass    
      
   On 11/25/2010 2:38 AM, Lars Erdmann wrote:   
   > Hallo,   
   >   
   > in my BIOS I have now DISABLED "Quick Power On Self Test". That seems to   
   > initialize memory   
   > (at least the relevant parts of it) in a way that the trap below does   
   > not seem to occur any more.   
   > Seems that PMSHELL.EXE is using some uninitialized variable that often   
   > enough has a value   
   > that does not hurt but sometimes it does.   
   > BIOS writing some byte pattern to memory seems to cure the problem.   
      
   I ran into this in a System/7.  Uninitialized memory had bad parity.  I    
   was writing a small machine-language program where somehow the logic    
   made it simpler to load a variable and *then* test to see if it was    
   valid.  It took me a while to identify the problem.   
      
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