[Discussion] Desktop folds up!

[James Cannon]

Jim,

I see that VGA mode works ... maybe your current video
setting got hosed. Reinstall VGA (i.e. revert to VGA).
Reboot and reinstall your video drivers (Scitech?)
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Sincerely,
James Cannon

--- 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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