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- From: tenny@euclid.uucp (Nathan Tenny)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Two peculiar problems...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.165618.9763@nntp.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 16:56:18 GMT
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- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon
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- Problem #1: COM ports.
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- I have an internal modem installed on COM4; programs running under "native"
- DOS do fine with it, but anything running under OS/2 (even in a DOS session)
- behaves *strangely*; typically, it will find nothing on COM4 the first time
- it looks, and will hang the second time. Most programs (including SofTerm)
- stop responding to system requests at this point, and once in a while the whole
- machine will lock up and have to be hard-booted. What the hell is going on?
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- (For what it's worth; I have the modem on IRQ3, and COM2 disabled to avoid
- conflicts. There's a trackball on COM1, and no other serial devices.)
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- Problem #2: mysterious boot failures.
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- For some time now, when I have booted from a DOS floppy (usually to run comm
- software---see above), OS/2 has failed to come back up the first time---it
- displays the WPS background, but doesn't actually bring anything up. After a
- 3-finger salute, it's fine.
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- Last night, it did this and didn't come back after the Ctrl-Alt-Del; I booted
- about 5 times running, hard-booted, started from a floppy and ran CHKDSK/F,
- all to no avail; reinstalled, and it did it again; eventually I deleted
- CONFIG.SYS and the .INI files, re-re-installed, and it worked; though of course
- I lost what system setup I'd done.
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- The problem started when I installed my modem (with attendant COM port
- nonsense) and, simultanaeously switched over to a Trident SVGA board.
- Anybody know what to blame?
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- Thanks
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- NT
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