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- From: m1nxb00@fed.frb.gov (Nicholas Bull)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS2 WINS!! I give up!
- Message-ID: <16059@fed.FRB.GOV>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 14:02:45 GMT
- References: <26AUG199210035893@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Federal Reserve Board, Wash, DC
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- In article <26AUG199210035893@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>, solomon@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (Robert F. Solomon) writes:
- >
- > That's right! I give up! I have spent about four weeks trying to
- > install the mother of all operating systems on my personal system at home.
- >
- > ... [deleted]
- > I can do without a printer for now. Do the tutorial. That's fine.
- > Try a WINOS2 session. Error 3176. Video problems (I have a Prodesigner
- > VGA+ with the ET3000 chipset.) Reset. Try the hints. Still problems.
- > Try full screen DOS session. Same problems. Same effort. Same result.
- > Call IBM. They tell me to try the same hints. That didn't work, so they
- > said they would get back to me.
- >
- > ... [deleted]
-
- I sympathize with your problems. I also had the notorious
- Prodesigner+ w/ET300 chipset and had lots of problems with 3176
- errors, spontaneous lockups, video scrambling, etc. After a month of
- trying various patches I spent $70 on a generic Trident card and have
- had exactly zero crashes since then. The ET3000 is unredeemable, in
- my opinion. I've only been using the Trident at 600x480x16 because I
- haven't wanted to "fiddle" with the SVGA part, which seems from the
- patches I keep seeing to still be a little flaky for all the boards.
-
- It sounds like you were close to getting things to work. It might be
- worth trying again with a cheapo Trident board (make sure you can
- return it if it doesn't work). Once you get OS/2 running, it really
- is nice to be able to print a file or download a file or copy a file
- to the floppy without the whole system screeching to a halt and
- displaying the dreaded hourglass (as in Win3). Maybe Win3.1 is really
- more stable than 3.0 in which case fine, but I had lots of crashes in
- 3.0 and now that I've fixed the video card problem I never have
- crashes in OS/2.
-
- So maybe give the mother of all operating systems another try?
-
- Nick
-