[Discussion] Desktop folds up!

[Thomas Clayton]

Well Jim:

Your, being able to set the screen size to hi-rez in eCS, rules out
my hypoth. of video card failure.

Re-reading your orig. 'Desktop folds up!' letter makes me want to
suggesst removing an offending line (or just placing "rem " at the
front of it) within your STARTUP.CMD file. 

This, of course, MIGHT not be possible (?)since you RE-installed
W4. (BTW, did you apply fixpacks to THAT, RE-install? If all you
did WAS re-install W4, then you've put older (FP'0') files in place
of FP12 ones on your 'C' vol..)


Sincerely,

Thomas Clayton



--- Thomas Clayton <topcatdrc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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