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From: "Graham Bisset" <graham@nmisystems.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.codewarrior
Subject: Re: PSComUtil
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 19:27:36 +0100
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tisa wrote in message <35C5E957.36CA534D@aol.com>...
>
>
>Craig Graham wrote:
>
>> I cann't believe folks actually do that. PsCOMUtil doesn't drop you back
to
>> the
>> bricks screen when a program exits, but you can re-send a PXE without
doing
>> a hard reset, and your TIM's will still be there.
>>
>> > Phil
>>
>>
>
>I find that when my program exits (i.e. the main() function ends) I get a
>'Playstation generated an instruction exception at address 0x0' message
from
>PSComUtil, so I *have* to reset the Playstation.
>

I get the same message but there is *NO* need to reset the PSX.  All
you need to do is run the next download and off it goes.  I would have
found another program to use if this was the case.

>With SIOCONS, the program exits gracefully and your back to the bricks
screen.
>With PSComUtil, when main() ends, the screen freezes with whatever image
>happened to be on the screen at the time, and you get the instruction
>exception.
>
>Am I doing something wrong?
>

Nope, other than not loading the next program.

Graham