Crash-happy VGA writing

[FinalBirdman]

An asm prog of mine keeps crashing, and I can't figure out why. It has as simple loop like this that copies a 64000 byte array into the VGA segment (the mode is set already) The buffers and everything else is arleadey set up. This is only a part of the prog.

mov DI,0a00h
mov ES,DI
mov DI,0
mov SI,seg buffer0[0]
mov DS,SI
mov SI,0

copyloop:
mov AL,DS:[SI]
mov ES:[DI],AL
inc SI
inc DI
cmp SI,64000
jnz copyloop

When I run this, it crashes my computer. Some other notes:

This works fine:

mov DI,0a00h
mov ES,DI
mov DI,0
mov SI,seg buffer0[0]
mov DS,SI
mov SI,0

copyloop:
mov AL,DS:[SI]
mov ES:[DI],AL
inc SI
;inc DI
cmp SI,64000
jnz copyloop

And this works fine:

mov DI,0a00h
mov ES,DI
mov DI,0
mov SI,seg buffer0[0]
mov DS,SI
mov SI,0

copyloop:
mov AL,DS:[SI]
;mov ES:[DI],AL
inc SI
inc DI
cmp SI,64000
jnz copyloop

And so does this:
mov DI,0a00h
mov ES,DI
mov DI,0
mov SI,seg buffer0[0]
mov DS,SI
mov SI,0

copyloop:
mov AL,DS:[SI]
mov ES:[DI],AL
inc SI
inc DI
cmp SI,100 ;notice the change in steps
jnz copyloop

I can't figure it out. And it only happens when copying to the VGA segment, copying to other buffers works fine.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[cluelessNewbie]

mmm... you're testing seems thorough... I like that. I'm not much on segmented memory models & I don't have dos @ work so I can't test this but it seems to me that you're blowing past the end of your segment.

You can test this by printing your addresses out & seeing where it dies.

Off-hand... a00h (2560) + 64000 = 66560 > 65536 would be the culprit. Then again...

 

[FinalBirdman]

Yeah, but it dies even if I just write near 10,000. That shouldn't happen. And by the way, the whole 0a00h is a type, I meant 0a000h. So that's not the problem, just in case you wondered. Thanks for the help, let me know if you have any other ideas.

 

[minsiz]

hello
the vga memory is at 0a000h
change es to 0a000h and di to 0
than use movsb [w][d]like below
mov cx, 64000
rep movsb
or
mov cx,32000
rep movsw
or
mov cx, 16000
rep movsd

 

[AmkG]

Just what mode are you using...? Only 64000 byte mode I know is mode 13h, 320x200x256... maybe your card doesn't support this mode nicely anymore? "Information has a tendency to be free. Which means someone will always tell you something you don't want to know."