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- From: gordon@galisant.demon.co.uk (Gordon Beck)
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- Subject: Re: Installation help needed. (Error c000005)
- References: <1992Dec12.085848.11093@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:44:33 +0000
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- In article <1992Dec12.085848.11093@tc.cornell.edu> chow@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christopher Chow) writes:
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- >
- > A couple of months ago I got OS/2 (as part of the summer promo upgrade
- > from Windows), but since I had limited disk space, I deinstalled it
- > after making sure that OS/2 runs on my system. I haven't got the October
- > Service pack, so all I have is the version that existed in July this
- > year.
- >
- > Over the last two days, I've attempted to install OS/2 a number of
- > times without sucess. I'm using the boot manager, and have tried
- > installing on both my hard drives, and while the installation itself
- > seemed to go smoothly (OS/2 accepted all 15 disks plus the first
- > printer driver disk), upon rebooting at the end of the install process,
- > I get the OS/2 logo, and then after some disk activity, a screen which
- > has the code "c0000005" on the upper left hand corner. The rest of the
- > screen is blank.
- >
- > In the ensuing months, the only difference in my system was that I added
- > an Iomega Insider 250 tape drive with its fast floppy controller card, and
- > a Diamond Speedstar 24X. Is there something special I need to do in the
- > installation process to get the system up with the Speedstar 24X? What
- > does the "c0000005" code mean?
- >
- > For reference, my h/w config is the following: 486-33 clone, AMI bios,
- > 8 Mb ram, Speedstar 24X, Soundblaster Pro (irq=5), Iomega fast floopy
- > controler (for tape driver, irq=3), two Maxtor 7213A drives. I've tried
- > installing (twice each) to a primary partition on drive 1 and also to an
- > extended partition on drive 2. Both cases the target partition was formatted
- > for HPFS.
- >
-
- There is a replace BVHSVGA.DLL driver that you need for what must be a Western
- Digital chip-set on the video card.
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