[Discussion] Desktop folds up!

[jim.scott at scottelectronic.com]

** Reply to note from Don Burch <theunk at telus.net> Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:36:34 -0600 
 
 
HI Don, 
 
    
| 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? 
 
    
I had been running FP-12 for quite some time.  No I did not replace the PMWP.DLL unless it was replaced in the reinstall. 
 
I've really screwed it up now!  I went to the maintenance desktop, and did another install.  When I was asked if I wanted to install   
networking support, I thought it was fine and checked *NO*, so now I don't have the network available, although all the files seem   
intact.  I still can't boot without folding the *new* desktop.   
 
This wasn't what I wanted.  I wanted my old desktop running.  I can see it, but it's now the *previous* desktop. S#%@t.  I would have   
never done that if I knew it would not allow me reuse my old desktop.  All of the archive numbers have dissappeared, even though the   
directory entries are in place. 
 
I added another hard drive, it's F:, so I have C: and D: from the original drive, E: for CDROM, and F: for the installed ECS 1.2.  It   
looks good, and I can get around the building on the network, but I can't run any Win-31 graphic apps. Go figure! 
 
ONe more thing, the boot manager for ECS must be different than Warp because now the drive reports a corrupt partition (the   
bootmanager).  This is an accumulation of 4 days and I'm moving files to another computer to get the task done. 
 
Grrrrrr.... 
I thought I knew something about this operating system.  I guess not. 
 
JIM 
 
    
| 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?   
| >