[Discussion] Desktop folds up!

[Thomas Clayton]

Dear Jim - and James:

Your, being able to set the screen size to hi-rez in eCS, rules out
my hypoth. of video card failure. James C.'s suggestion of
re-installing the video drivers (back to VGA - Then back to Matrox
specific or 'UP TO' SciTech) still stands as a good one. Good
thinking, James!

This, of course, MIGHT not be possible since you RE-installed W4,
instead. 
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


--- James Cannon <cyberspittle at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
> > 
> > *************************************************
> > 
> > Two rules for success in life:
> > 1)  Don't tell people everything you know.
> > 2)
> > 
> > *************************************************


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