NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/misc/35571

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From: [e-mail] (Bryon Daly, ECE dept, UMass, Amherst)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: SP crashes more often!! Help!
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:30:52 GMT
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Well, I hate to say it, but it seems that OS/2 is less stable for me now than
it was before I applied the Service Pack.  It has crashed unexpectedly on me
quite a few times now, and I've seen a few other weirdnesses.

First the crashes:
I use ALT-ESC to switch between tasks a lot, usually from a full screen
seesion back to the WPS.  Sometimes, I use ALT-ESC from the WPS, and I think
this is when I crash (I'm not completely sure if this is always the situation,
though.  In all cases, it is when I am switching sessions).  Anyway, it tries
to switch to a text session, but the screen goes black, and eveything locks
up (CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't even work...), so I need a hard reboot.
(I have a diamond speedstar, and am running at 800x600x256 to avoid the
1024x768 nuttiness)  Any ideas? A friend of mine running OS/2 on his IBM
model 100 with XGA says he has also experienced many lockups, but I don't
know if they are due to a similar situation or an unrelated one.

Also, I have seen multicolored garbage characters appear on screen in text
mode after switching to it from the WPS.  There aren't many of them (2-5,
maybe), and they scroll normally with the rest of the characters when the
screen scrolls, so they aren't permanent.

My suspicion is that these problems are due to bugginess in the 32-bit GRE.
Any suggestions?

Thanks,
-Bryon