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- From: ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Trap 000C HEEELLLPPPP!
- Message-ID: <BzEt0n.Mup@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 15:14:46 GMT
- References: <BzDKo6.5qM@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <BzE235.AEp@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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- In article <BzE235.AEp@news.cso.uiuc.edu> nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel) writes:
- >ericwolf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Eric Wolf) writes:
- >
- >>In the middle of playing Mike Ditka's football game in a full-screen
- >>DOS session, I got an error. Well, it forced me to do a hard reset and
- >>then when I selected OS/2 from the boot manager, it started to boot up
- >>OS/2 and then it came up trap 000c - blah blah blah ( lots of register
- >>info and it told me to contact a service rep.)
- >
- >>Well, I rebooted and again it said this again. So, I tried to boot off the
- >>floppies and I got past the first disk (installation disk) and then I got 1/2
- >>way thru the 2nd one or so (disk #1) when it said that it could not open CON:
- >>and it could not continue without it.
- >
- >Did you only try bpotting off the hard drive twice? I would try to do it more
- >often; I frequently have to boot three times to get it to actually boot without
- >a trap 0002 (and wait through that "chkdsk corrected allocation error" junk).
- >don't know if trap 000c, though.
- >
- >
- >>- Eric
-
- Well, I booted more than three times!!! And it appears to be a hardware
- failure because now my computer won't even turn on!!! :( :( :(
-