[Discussion] Desktop folds up!

[jim.scott at scottelectronic.com]

Hi all, 
 
I've been messing around with this for some time now, and I believe   
that it is a rogue program in either mdos or winos2.  I have a   
K6-2/300 running a Matrox PCI Millenium video. 
 
I have Warp V4 installed on a machine that ran for years.  After a   
MMedia problem was fixed, I discovered that while booting the desktop   
would start, the startup.cmd would start running, and before long,   
the desktop would collapse, and I would get a System error.  It fails   
when trying to dispatch DOSCALL1 and will continue to retry over and   
over until you <Alt><CTRL><DEL> 
 
I might note that I unless I run VGA, no Multimedia cards will work   
without causing this problem.  It will boot and you get the intro   
music then the screen goes away, and you get the SysError  
 
I looked in  the log facility and found PMWP.DLL listed each time. 
 
INterestingly, I can reset to VGA after loading an archive, and the   
machine will come up in VGA mode and run just fine - as long as I   
don't try to run any DOS apps.  I'm not sure about Winos/2 just yet,   
but I suspect it will fail as well. 
 
Do I need to reinstall os/2 to get this offending file cleared out,   
or can someone tell me how can I discover it?  


Cheers,

Jim Scott

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