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    AST RESEARCH, INC.         TECHNICAL BULLETIN # 1382               12-21-95

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    	  Bravo MS-T Western Digital and MS Office Professional v 4.3

    PROBLEM

    1. During installation of MS Office Professional v4.3, using a Western
       Digital WDAC2850-00F, the Bravo MS-T system may report miscellaneous
       setup corrupt errors, initialization errors, or General Protection Fault
       (GPF) errors.

    2. After opening more than one document, following the installation of MS
       Office Professional v4.3, a GPF error may occur.

    CAUSE

    Using the CD-ROM and the EIDE hard disk drive on different channels
    which do not have separate buffers, may cause controller and dual channel
    information transfer problems

    SOLUTION

    Configure the CD-ROM as a slave device on the same channel as the hard
    disk master.  The directions for coonfiguring the CD-ROM as a slave device
    are detailed in the AST User's Manual.

    SYSTEMS AFFECTED
    AST PART NUMBER AND DESCRIPTION

    501777-XXX      Bravo MS-T