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- From: ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Service Pack locks DELL
- Message-ID: <ignacij.721065746@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 16:02:26 GMT
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- price@helios.unl.edu (Chad Price) writes:
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- >ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal) writes:
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- >>I applied Service Pack to a 486/50 Dell. Under 2.0 GA, Dell locked up
- >>until all SVGA references in config.sys were changed to VGA. With
- >>SP applied, it locks no matter whether SVGA or VGA are there. Does
- >>anobony know a solution? Dell uses a Western Digital SVGA set.
-
- >PLease post more details. I have a Dell 486D/50 with the standard 230 MB
- >hard drive and 8MB memory and the built-in chipset (and removed the ATI
- >Vantage card) and once the ATI card was removed, I have had no problems
- >with either the GA or the CSD/Svc Pak disks. All went on smoothly. The GA
- >_required_ the bvsvga patch from ibm to run and the (?) June kernel patch in
- >order to keep the swapper file under control. Everything else is as it came
- >out of the box.
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-
- >--
- >chad
- >price@helios.unl.edu
- >cprice@molecular.unmc.edu
-
- With SP applied the Dell shows the loading screen, and goes black when
- the desktop should appear. The system is then locked, and requires
- reboot, but not hard reboot.
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