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- TITLE: GENERAL CONSIDERATION WHEN HANDLING DISPLAY PROBLEMS.
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- DESCRIPTION OF SYMPTOMS:
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- Intermittent desktop corruption or hangs when a folder repaints.
- This could either be happening in vga or svga.
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- SUMMARY OF RESOLUTION:
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- See if the problem occurs in vga resolution, run CHKDSK, and
- check for hardware conflicts. Also be sure the INI files
- are not corrupt and their is plenty of free space in the
- swapper.dat file.
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- DETAILS OF RESOLUTION:
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- 1. Note which video mode you are in. If you are in svga set the
- system back to vga using the "RSPDSPI" command. See if the
- problem occurs in vga. If it does not then it is more than
- likely a problem w/ video. If not then continue.
- 2. Boot from the OS2 bootable floppies and get the A: command
- prompt. DO NOT TRY TO ACCESS THE OS2 DRIVE.
- 3. Insert diskette #2 into drive A and run "CHKDSK x: /f" for FAT
- and "CHKDSK x: /f:2" for HPFS. A corrupted hardfile will
- cause hangs like this and CHKDSK will repair the drive.
- 4. Reboot.
- 5. Open an OS2 session and change to the os2\system directory and
- check the swapper.dat file. Make sure there at least 5 or
- 10 megs of freespace(15 is a good recommendation). If the
- file does not have much freespace left you will have to
- make so room on the partition or move the file to a
- different place on the drive.
- 6. Check the system BIOS and make sure it is at its
- latest revision. AMI BIOS should be dated no earlier than
- 5/9/91(this is what we recommend). PHOENIX BIOS should be
- dated no earlier than 5/11/92.
- 7. Be sure the INI files are not corrupt. Follow the
- instructions on page 435 of the users guide(OS2 2.1).
- Before you delete the OS2.INI and the os2sys.ini file back
- up by renaming them. For example:
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- REN OS2.INI OS2.BAD
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- IMPORTANT NUMBERS:
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- AMI BIOS update: Washburn and Co., 1-800-836-8026
- PHOENIX BIOS update: Micro Firmware, 1-405-321-8333
- Diamond Computer Systems, Inc.: 1-408-736-2000
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