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- OSINHWRE - IBM NEW HARDWARE AND WARP PROBLEMS AS OF 11/11/94
- 11/11/94
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- IBM NEW HARDWARE AND WARP PROBLEMS AS OF NOVEMBER 11, 1994
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-
- This document is to inform the service group of problems found
- installing OS/2 Warp on the Aptiva, PC 300 and PC 700 machines
- that currently have DOS/Windows. The document has the problem
- descriptions and their system fixes or work arounds.
-
-
- RAPID RESUME
-
- If you have Rapid Resume enabled on your machine, you must disable
- it before starting installation. To disable Rapid Resume:
-
- 1. Start the system.
- 2. Shut down active applications so you do not loose any data.
- 3. Disable Rapid Resume with the Rapid Resume Manager or the
- system Configuration Utility.
-
- If you are not sure how to disable Rapid Resume, refer to the
- system documentation.
-
-
- DISABLE READ PREFETCH
-
- There is a setting in the BIOS to enable/disable Read Prefetch on
- the following models of Aptiva machines. If you do not have one of
- the following machines, skip this section.
-
- Model 310 (2144-22P)
- Model 330 (2144-24P)
- Model 335 (2144-25P)
- Model 343 (2144-29P)
- Model 350 (2144-26P)
- Model 510 (2144-62P)
- Model 530 (2144-66P)
-
- Disabling Prefetch on all Aptiva's from the 310 (2144-22P)
- through the 530 (2144-66P)
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-
- 1. Start the system.
-
- 2. When the IBM logo is displayed, and a box like the following
- appears in the upper right corner of the screen:
-
- ╒════════╕
- │~~~~ ~~│
- │ │
- │~~~~ ~~│
- │ │
- │~~~~ ~~│
- ╘════════╛
-
- Press F1 to start the Configuration Utility
-
- 3. Press Page Down to go to page 4. At the bottom of the page
- is:
-
- Read Prefetch [Enable]
-
- 4. Highlight the entry and use the cursor control keys to
- change the value to Disable.
-
- Read Prefetch [Disable]
-
- 5. Press Esc.
-
- 6. Highlight "Yes" and press Enter to save the changes and
- continue the boot.
-
-
- Disabling Prefetch on all IBM PC 300 Series - 486 Systems
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-
- Note: OS/2 preloaded model 300s are set correctly.
-
- 1. Start the system.
-
- 2. At the IBM logo, press F1 when prompted.
-
- 3. Highlight Devices & I/O Ports and press Enter.
-
- 4. Highlight IDE Drive Setup and press Enter.
-
- 5. A list of possible hard disks appear. Highlight each
- hard disk and press Enter to display the settings for the
- disk. If the following setting appears:
-
- IDE Read Prefetch [Enable]
-
-
- 6. Highlight the entry and use the cursor control keys to change
- the value to Disable:
-
- IDE Read Prefetch [Disable]
-
-
- 7. Press Esc.
-
- 8. Highlight "Yes" and press Enter to save the changes and
- continue the boot.
-
-
-
- TRAP 3 WITH IDE CDROM
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-
- Trap 3 can happen on IBM PC 300 Series - 486 Systems , IBM PC 300
- Series - Pentium System , IBM PC 700 Series - Pentium Systems and
- Aptiva machines with 3.7 meg of memory and an IDE CDROM.
-
- The queueing mechanism in the IDE CDROM driver can cause a trap
- 3. A fix must be applied to OS/2 to correct this problem. If
- your installation package is from CD, you will be sent a new
- Diskette 1 to upgrade the CD-ROM device driver. If your
- installation package is all from diskettes, you will be sent
- diskette 2 with the upgrade. Use the upgraded diskettes during
- install.
-
-
-
- THE APTIVA MACHINES 530 (2144-66P) AND 730 (2144-86P)
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-
-
- APTIVA MACHINES WITH THE ARIA SOUND CARD (530 AND 730)
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- The Aria sound card needs the promethieus driver for OS/2 and it
- is not available until 1995.
-
- To allow Windows applications to function with the Windows driver for
- the Aria sound card, special care must be taken during the OS/2
- installation process.
-
- 1. Select "Advanced" install on the Installation screen.
- 2. Continue answering the installation questions.
- 3. When prompted, remove the diskette from the diskette drive
- and restart the system.
-
- The "Hardware Configuration" screen appears when the system
- is restarted.
-
- 4. Move the mouse to the MultiMedia icon and click the
- left mouse button.
- The SoundBlaser driver is highlighted on the screen.
- 5. Select the Remove push button then select the OK push button
- 6. Continue with the installation. When the installation is
- complete, the Windows applications can use the Windows sound
- device driver.
-
- APTIVA APPLICATION PROBLEMS
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- After installing Warp on Aptiva machines, there are a number
- of problems with the applications shipped with the machine.
- The problems are being identified and fixes and workarounds
- are listed here.
-
-
- 1. The proper icons for some of the applications is replaced
- by the OS/2 standard Windows icon. This will be fixed in a
- future release of OS/2. The following information is not
- included in the customer documentation. Some Windows icons
- are placed in the wrong location and objects get the wrong
- icon. They are listed below.
-
- Windows Main folder is not created. The contents the Main
- folder is being put into other folders.
-
- ICON NAME: Where Found Now:
-
- Fileman Windows Programs Folder
- Control Panel Windows Programs Folder
- Print Manager Windows Programs Folder
- Clipboard View Windows Programs Folder
- Dos Prompt Dos Tools
- Windows Setup Windows Programs Folder
- PIF Editor Windows Programs Folder
- Readme (System) Missing
-
- Comptons Encyclopedia should be in the Windows MultiMedia
- Folder, but is located in the Windows Programs Folder.
-
- Multimedia Basics is missing. Multimedia Basics should be in
- the Windows MultiMedia Folder, executing
- C:\WINDOWS\PS1CDROM.EXE with a parameter of Multimedia Basics
- and a working directory of C:\WINDOWS. The icon is located in
- C :\WELCOME\MMBASICS.ICO.
-
- The DOS Help object located in the DOS Tools Folder should
- have the icon C:\WINDOWS\DOSHELP.ICO.
-
- The game Solitaire is located in the OS/2 System Folder
- but should be in the WIN-OS/2 Groups, Games Folder. The
- following are the programs with the wrong icons and the
- location of the correct icons for the objects.
-
- ICON NAME: LOCATION:
-
- Photo Display C:\WELCOME\PHOTO.ICO
- Music Mentor C:\WELCOME\MENTOR.ICO
- Undersea Adventure C:\WELCOME\SEA.ICO
- Discoverers C:\WELCOME\DISCOVER.ICO
- Learning Library C:\WELCOME\BOOKS.ICO
- FaxWorks C:\WELCOME\FWK.ICO
- Online Services C:\WELCOME\ONL.ICO
- IBM Support C:\WELCOME\SUP.ICO
- Custom Tools C:\WELCOME\PST.ICO
- Rapid Resume Manager C:\WELCOME\PSTPOWER.ICO
- DOS Prompt C:\WINDOWS\DOS.ICO
-
- 2. When you start some windows programs, the message
- " RRTSKLST.EXE can not be found" appears on the screen..
- The function is not needed under OS/2, you can ignore the
- message. If you do not want the message to appear, edit the
- \WINDOWS\.WIN.INI file. Change:
-
- From: LOAD=RRTSKLST.EXT
-
- To: LOAD=C:\PS1TOOLS\RRTSKLST.EXE
-
- 3. For UNDERSEA ADVENTURE and DISCOVERERS:
-
- a. OS/2 assigns the CD-ROM drive to the next available drive
- letter after the hard file drive letters. Some applications
- do not have the flexibility to find the drive letter for the
- CD-ROM and must be told where it is. You need determine the
- drive letter OS/2 has assigned to the CD-ROM. You can type
- a DIR command for each drive starting with D: until the
- light on the CD-ROM is on.
-
- b. Edit the following files, changing the CD drive fields from
- E: to D: and the remaining fields from E: to D: in each
- file. Save each file after making changes.
-
- C:\SEA\KA.CNF
- C:\DISCOVER\KA.CNF
- C:\SEA\SEA.BAT
- C:\DISCOVER\DISCOVER.BAT
-
- Note: If the address for the SoundBlaster port is a220 in
- the KA.CNF files, it must be changed to a240.
-
- c. Go to the Settings notebook in each program and do the
- following:
-
- 1. Point the mouse at the icon and press the right
- mouse button once.
- 2. Select Settings on the menu and press the left mouse
- button once.
- 3. Change the Path and file name:
- From:
-
- C:\SEA\PS1CDROM.EXE (in the Undersea Adventure)
- C:\DISCOVER\PS1CDROM.EXE (in the Discoverers)
-
- To: C:\WINDOWS\PS1CDROM.EXE
-
- 4. Select the Session tab.
- 5. Select WIN-OS/2 settings.
- 6. Select All DOS and WIN-OS/2 settings button.
- 7. Select the OK push button.
- 8. Set DOS_HIGH to ON.
- 9. Set DOS_UMB to ON and save the settings.
- 10. Select the button for WIN-OS2 full screen.
-
- 11. Close the Settings notebook by double clicking the
- box in the upper left corner of the window.
-
- Although these applications can now run, they may hang
- the system because the IRQ value is set at IRQ=5.
- The correct value is IRQ=10. The following files need
- to be changes with a command file that IBM will
- supply.
-
- CONFIG.SYS
- AUTOEXEC.BAT
- SYSTEM.INI
- KA.CNF (in DISCOVER)
- KA.CNF (in SEA)
-
- Note:
- Sound currently does not work for the Discoverers application.
- The file C:\DISCOVER\KA.CNF does not properly identify the
- sound driver needed. Reference to SB16DIG.DRV should be
- changed to give the full path to the driver
- C:\DISCOVER\MISDISC\SB16DIG.DRV.
-
- When exiting Undersea Adventure or Discoverers the initial
- screen requesting the CD-ROM may appear again. If this
- happens, select cancel to end the application.
-
-
- 4. Comptons Interactive Encyclopedia
-
- If you are running Comptons Interactive Encyclopedia
- seamlessly and playing a video, when you select the full
- screen button the video expands to full screen and plays
- normally. When the video finishes, the screen goes black and
- you must restart the system to recover.
-
- If the application is run in full screen session, this problem
- does not happen. To prevent this problem, do the following:
-
- 1. Point the mouse at the icon and press the right mouse
- button once.
- 2. Select Settings on the menu and press the left mouse
- button once.
- 3. Select the Session tab
- 4. Select the button for WIN-OS2 full screen
- 5. Close the Settings notebook by double clicking the box
- in the upper left corner of the window.
-
-
- 5. Music Mentor
-
- When playing the Music Mentor, the music and the displayed
- notes can get out of sync. To prevent this, change the
- MultiMedia settings of Music Mentor:
-
- 1. Point the mouse at the icon and press the right
- mouse button once.
- 2. Select Settings on the menu and press the left
- mouse button once.
- 3. Select the Session tab
- 4. Select WIN-OS/2 settings.
- 5. Select All DOS and WIN-OS/2 settings button.
- 6. Select the OK push button.
- 7. Set COM_DIRECT_ACCESS to ON
- 8. Set HW_TIMER to ON
- 9. Set INT_DURING_IO to ON
- 10. Set VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION to OFF
- 11. Set VIDEO_SWITCH_NOTIFICATION to OFF and save the
- settings.
- 12. Close the Settings notebook by double clicking the
- box in the upper left corner of the window.
-
- 6. Reuters - When Reuters (Money Network) is started from the
- icon or from Windows Program Manager, it displays "...not
- enough file handles..." message. The program cannot
- open or create files. The README.WRI file recommends that 100
- file handles are specified when running under OS/2.
-
- Do the following to set DOS_FILES to 100 and enhanced mode:
-
-
- a. Point the mouse at the icon and press the right
- mouse button once.
- b. Select Settings on the menu and press the left mouse
- button once.
- c. Select the Session tab.
- d. Select WIN-OS/2 settings.
- e. Select the All DOS and WIN-OS/2 settings
- f. Select the OK push button.
- g. Set WIN_RUN_MODE to 3.1 Enhanced Compatibility
- h. Set DOS_FILES to 100 and save the settings
- i. Close the Settings notebook by double clicking the
- box in the upper left corner of the window.
-
-
-
- 7. Running Disney Software Preview seamless hangs the system. To
- fix the problem, run the Disney Software Preview program in a
- full screen session.
-
- a. Point the mouse at the icon and press the right
- mouse button once.
- b. Select Settings on the menu and press the left mouse
- button once.
- c. Select the Session tab.
- d. Select WIN-OS2 settings
- e. Select the WIN-OS2 full screen button.
- f. Close the Settings notebook by double clicking the
- box in the upper left corner of the window.
-
- 8. Rapid Resume to a partition works if set up properly.
- There is a file called README.TXT in the directory called
- \PS1TOOLS (on Aptivas) or \IBMTOOLS (on the PC 300 and
- 700 machines) that describe the steps for enabling Rapid
- Resume to a partition. Rapid Resume to a file under OS/2
- requires a new copy of PS1PFILE.EXE and PS1PFILE.SCR. These
- files are on the second diskette you received. Copy
- the two files to the directory C:\PS1TOOLS.
- PS1PFILE.EXE must be run each time the machine is started.
- Edit the file C:\STARTUP.CMD and add the following
- line:
-
- C:\PS1TOOLS\PS1PFILE.EXE
-
- If you have never run Rapid Resume to a file or you add memory
- to your machine, the Rapid Resume file must be set up under
- DOS.
-
- a. Go to DOS. Close any applications running on your OS/2
- system.
- b. Go to an OS/2 command line and type:
-
- BOOT /DOS
-
- c. Type Y to the question "Do you want to continue?"
- d. When DOS starts, go to a DOS command line and type:
-
- C:\PS1TOOLS\PS1PFILE.EXE
-
- e. To return to OS/2 enter the following command:
-
- C:\OS\BOOT /OS2
-
- Rapid Resume is now ready to use.
-
- 9. Do not use the personal Desktop Windows function under
- OS/2. This function is not supported under OS/2.
-
- 10. The following problems are being addressed.
-
- a) Music Mentor gets a General Protection Fault when the "To
- Session" button is pressed.
- b) Plug-in-Play application hangs seamless windows session.
- The Aptiva Custom Tool Plug-in-Play hangs the system
- running in a seamless Windows session when using Alt+Esc to
- switch between sessions.
- c) The Disney Software Preview, runnning under Windows on
- an Aptiva system with OS/2 installed, trys to run the
- 'Stunt Island' or 'Disney Animation Studio' demos, the demo
- ends and cause Windows to restart. When you try to run the
- Stunt Island or Disney Animation Studio demos, on the
- Disney Software Preview running under Windows on an Aptiva
- with OS/2, the demo ends and causes Windows to restart. A
- message, "A file is missing please reinstall" appears. On
- an Aptiva without OS/2 installed the demos run normally.
- The demos run a DOS application named DISNEY.EXE under DOS
- and expect COMMAND.COM to be in the root directory. There
- is a conflict between the operating systems on this file so
- the DOS version of this file is in the DOS directory and
- the OS/2 version of this file is normally in \OS2\MDOS.
- The bug is in the Disney software for insisting that the
- COMMAND.COM be in the root. However, the DualBoot program
- will be updated to fix this problem.
- d) The Aptiva Custom Tool, Plug-and-Play, leaves you at
- the OS/2 Desktop after starting the application and running
- its initial DOS program. Use the Window List or Alt+Esc to
- go back to the full screen Windows session and
- Plug-and-Play.
- e) When using FAX Voice as an answering machine, messages get
- truncated.
- f) Comptons Encycolpedia gets a General Protection Fault in
- the vidio while playing animation.
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- including without limitation, warranties of fitness and
- merchantability with respect to the information in this document.
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