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- From: frigo@psl.wisc.edu (Sean P. Frigo UW-SRC (608)873-6651)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Phoenix BIOS anyone?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.140209.29272@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 14:02:09 GMT
- References: <13808@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Physical Science Lab
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- In article <13808@mindlink.bc.ca>, Wayde_Police@mindlink.bc.ca (Wayde Police) writes:
- >
- > I have been having nothing but trouble installing OS2 2.0 this last week. I
- > have tried 2 video cards, various HD partitioning schemes, dual boot, boot
- > manager, copying the disks, all CMOS settings, and the config.sys
- > fix for some HD controllers (made it worse). The problem was always the same,
- > in the middle of the installation, while copying either DISPLAY.DLL,
- > or the BVHVGA.DLL (?) driver onto the HD the installation program would
- >freeze.
- >So I finally called IBM support and they told me that the problem was
- >my phoenix bios is too old (1991). They said I needed to up rev to
- >revision dated 05-11-92! Is this right?! Is anyone out there running
- >OS2 2.0 on phoenix bios roms dated before this year's May!??
- > Wayde V. Police
- >
- Interesting. I have successfully installed os/2 on my system that has a
- Mylex 386-33 system board with the Phoenix 1.10.10 BIOS dated 1989. However,
- I do get FDD problems accessing my 1.44 drive and wonder if it is BIOS related.
-
- Sean Frigo
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