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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 Beta Problems. ( Cross linked files. Paradise Video. etc.)
- Message-ID: <sheldon.726301373@vincent1.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1993Jan5.223336@IASTATE.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 06:22:53 GMT
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- In <1993Jan5.223336@IASTATE.EDU> amah@IASTATE.EDU writes:
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- >I then proceeded to run DSPINSTALL. I have a paradise WDC90c30 based card with 1
- >MB RAM and was glad to see that 2.1 Beta has support for Paradise. I selected
- >640X480 256 Colors mode. Blank Screen! It gave me a message about Internal
- >processing error, "Trap000d" and some locations. Tried to recover by rebooting
- >and using Alt-F1 combination. Didn't work. A blank screen showed up after the
- >initial logos. Installed again by swapping 27 floppies (phew!) and haven't
- >touched DSPINSTALL since.
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- >My questions:
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- >a) Is there an easy way to recover after display problems like that?
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- This is a me too...
-
- I'm only running 2.0(actually 2.0.1) version right now on my PS/VP. But
- this is the third time I've had to reinstall this week after messing with
- the display drivers. I've decided now never to touch that satanic config
- utility every again. Just leaving it at 800x600 which is acceptable and
- working for now.
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- Blank screen, computer's working but nobody is home.
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- sheldon@iastate.edu Steve Sheldon
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