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- From: krowand@pilot.njin.net (Alexis Machine)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: All kindsa problems with the SP!
- Message-ID: <Dec.12.22.45.46.1992.6841@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 03:45:47 GMT
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
- Lines: 33
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- Hopefully, someone out there can help me... I'm running a clone 486 system,
- 16m ram, DTC Scsi adapter with several drives, and an ATI Wonder XL video
- card. Here's the problems I was having *before* installing the ServPak:
-
- o Netware Lite and Lantastic/AI would either not work at all or
- lock the entire system when run, depending on the configuration.
- I'm using SMC Arcnet cards.
- o My DOS communications programs (DSZ in particular) would simply...
- stop transferring in the middle of a file, until the other user hung
- up. IBM told me that it's because I use a 14.4k modem and there's too
- many interrupts, but other people do it.
- o The system would crash from time to time, usually with a Trap 0E.
-
- After installing the ServPak:
-
- o Netware Lite still doesn't work, same symptoms. I'm using NWL 1.1.
- o The system crashes when I do obscure things like open DOS or OS/2 command
- line windows.
- o The system locks when I try and load the DTC SCSI driver, which worked
- fine under the "old" version of OS/2.
- o Joel A's ATI video drivers don't seem to work reliably, occasionally lock
- at bootup.
-
- I reformatted the drive before reinstalling OS/2, and switched from FAT
- to HPFS. I installed OS/2, then the Servpak. The system will usually boot
- without any "extra" drivers loaded, but that makes my system virtually
- useless to me (especially without all the drives mounted). What am I doing
- wrong? It seems that everyone else is happily using OS/2, and I've had nothing
- but tons of problems since day one; it's frustrating, especially since OS/2
- does *exactly* what I need in an OS...
-
- If possible, please forward replies to krowand@pilot.njin.net, since I
- don't always get in here to read messages.
-