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AST RESEARCH, INC.         TECHNICAL BULLETIN # 1207A               2-22-96

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	 Bravo/Premmia GX Using AST DMI Utilities and Microsoft MSD


PROBLEM

The program SL.EXE, included with the AST DMI Utilities diskette 
(part number 911874-001), provides access to system information for the 
AST DMI Windows utilities.  This program conflicts with Microsoft's 
MSD.EXE, version 2.11 in such a way that running the two programs 
together causes the system to hang or reboot.


CAUSE

The conflict is based in the SL program using INT 2f, which the MSD 
program normally associates with Novell Netware information.


SYSTEMS AFFECTED
AST PART NUMBER AND DESCRIPTION

501522-XXX      PREMMIA GX P100
501754-XXX      BRAVO MS P100
911874-031      AST DMI Utilities

The AST DMI Utilities diskette, file name <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ast.com/MISC/11874031.EXE">11874031.EXE</A> can be found on 
AST's BBS (817) 230-6850.  AST's BBS supports modem speeds up to 28.8k 
bps.  The above file will also be posted on: 

CompuServe 
Go ASTSUPPORT

AST Worldwide Web Site
http://www.ast.com

For AST's world wide BBS numbers, see Technical Bulletin # 1500 
(1500TB.TXT) on AST's BBS and other On-Line! forums.


SOLUTION

There are two solutions available at this time :

1) AST distributes two versions of MSD on the hard disks of the affected 
   systems: version 2.01, which does not cause the above stated conflict; 
   and version 2.11 which has been renamed to MSD.AST.  These two programs 
   are found in both the DOS and WINDOWS subdirectories.  The end user may run 
   version 2.01 which will not cause the system to hang, but will report a 
   Pentium processor as a DX2/66.

2) Rename the MSD.AST program to MSD.EXE.  This is the 2.11 version which 
   causes the conflict.  Before running this version, remove the line 

		"%DMIDIR%\DOS\BIN\SL o=20" 

   from the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.  MSD will now operate normally.  In order 
   to use the DMI Utilities, the command line above must be re-inserted into 
   the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

For Additional information on the AST DMI UTILITIES DISKETTE, see Software 
Bulletin # 0225 in the SBS library of AST's BBS.