[Discussion] Desktop folds up!

[Don Burch]

Jim,
What FP are you running? I recall some issues with Doscall and PMWP.DLL.
Found it! Fixpak 9 first release.
It was a hanging issue not a collapsing one.
Have you tried replacing PMWP.DLL with a more recent version?

Don

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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