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EMM386 Exception error #12 ? Help ?

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From: roo
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 21:42
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I occasionally find that my PC clone hangs with the message :

EMM386 Exception error #12 - press Enter to reboot

Can any kind soul tell me the cause, and how to avoid it ?

This little problem only occurs occasionally, but (in accordance with Murphy's
Law) often at the worst time --- like in a text editor or word processor when I
haven't done a backup. It happened once in the midst of booting on a Monday
morning. Most recently (half an hour ago) I was at the DOS prompt.

If it helps, my computer is a Terran T30 (386SX) with 4 meg of RAM, a PC-NFS
card, and DOS 5.0.

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From: roo@dstos3.dsto.gov.au
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Subject: EMM386 Exception error #12 ? Help ?
Message-ID: <1992Aug7.154231.164297@dstos3.dsto.gov.au>
Date: 7 Aug 92 21:42:30 GMT
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