[Virtualacorn-list] VRPS falling over, big time.

[Kev Smith]

Hi all,

Having just had to re-install VRPC on a new machine as the old one 
died I've come across a couple of problems.

First one is that VRPC won't start up if the external optical drive is 
plugged in, my new machine being a little netbook, unplug the optical 
drive and VRPC booted up fine and DrivePop then lets me access cd's if 
I plug the drive back in once it's all running, not a major problem, 
just a bit annoying.

The second one is the biggy. Adjusting the amount of RAM for RISC OS 
causes an error in the RISC OS boot sequence and also has a knock on 
effect by causing an error in Windows once quitting VRPC. If I change 
bank 1 RAM from the default 16MB to 64MB I get the error "DataAbort: 
Abort on data transfer at &02229596 (error number &80000002)" then 
stops on the supervisor prompt. Put bank one back to 16 and all works. 
the same problem occurs by putting back 2 to 64, leaving bank 1 at 16, 
32MB in each doesn't work, 32 in bank 1 with 16 in bank 2 does work, 
but 16 and 32 doesn't, wierd, especially as the previous install on 
the now dead machine had bank 1 at 64MB and bank 2 at 32MB.

Shutting down after trying the default 16 + 16 or using 32 + 16 things 
go as expected, but after trying 16 + 32 I get the windows error and 
it wants to send a report to microsoft;
ERROR REPORT:
AppName : virtualrpc-sa.exe
AppVer  : 1.6.0.0
ModNAme : virtualrpc-sa.exe
ModVer  : 1.6.0.0
Offset  : 000837fd

Once this error has cropped up, VRPC throws up the error everytime 
it's shut down. Closing windows and restarting makes no difference.

So it seems I'm stuck with, at best, 48MB of RAM and the prospect of 
reinstalling, again.

Any suggestions or ideas?

Regards

Kev
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Kev Smith

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