[Discussion] Desktop folds up!

[Thomas Clayton]

Dear Jim:

I'm thinking it IS your VIDEO display card. Any tests done in a
different machine (IN high graphics mode)? (That could be high
color but I have in mind high resolution (1024x768).) 

Anyway, IF that IS the case, then I think I have a substitute
(replacement) card for you. (4MB PCI, 2064? mainchip making it a
Millenium 'I'; a Mil'n II has a 2164 mainchip and, while I HAVE one
of those, I'm still thnking I MIGHT use it.) 

Let me (us) know.

Tom Clayton

P.S.: Check the cards 'seating' and drivers, of course.
T.C.
P.P.S.: Does your board have an AGP slot? I might find a Matrox
card (or more likely an ATI one) for such a slot at my firend's
"junk yard under a roof".
T.C.



--- jim.scott at scottelectronic.com wrote:

> 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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