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- Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!wupost!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!wvnvm!jay
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 13:37:41 EST
- From: James Justice <JAY@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
- Message-ID: <92311.133741JAY@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Service Pack Problems
- References: <92303.134534JAY@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
- Lines: 16
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- In article <92303.134534JAY@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>, James Justice
- <JAY@wvnvm.wvnet.edu> says:
- >
- >We have down loaded the Service Pack from "software.watson.ibm.com" and are
- >busy installing it on PCs. We have installed it on 486/33 and 386/33 with
- >out problems. Unfortunatly, I have a problem. I have a 486/50 and when I
- >boot off of SPG301 and SPG302, I hang on SPG302. The load hangs!
-
- Problem solved! It turns out that our new 486/50s had an IDE Plus Controller
- card by BOCA Reserach Inc. This card was causing us printing problems under
- OS/2 and the Vendor supplied us with new cards from BOCA to fix the printer
- problems under OS/2. The new card also fixed the install problems with the
- Service Pack! These cards supply the Parallel print port, the serial port,
- the second serial port, hard drive controller, and floppy drive controller.
- I would guess there was some problem with the floppy that the Service Pack
- didn't like. Odd but the GA install disks booted fine.
-