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Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 19:19:43 PDT
From: Ray Davison <raydav@intlaccess.com >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: Help Desk Request

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Peter Skye wrote:
>

> (What version of Warp and FixPak level are you using?
4.12, 90.36

> Try to boot from your original OS/2 installation diskettes. They won't
> have all your drivers, but they _should_ boot.

Did that. Took it so far I had to reinstall the video.

(If you're SCSI you'll
IDE FAT
> where you can go to a command line and then run CHKDSK.
Will not accept /F on E: although it did accept it on D: which it would
not from a window.
>
> > I turned off the power switch and that
>
> Tell you what - don't do that any more. :)

> Instead, shut down properly and boot from diskette. Turning off your
> machine without "shutting down" doesn't write the disk cache out to the
> drive, so you lose whatever info is still in the cache and waiting to be
> written. (This can cause some BIG problems if the cache is still
> writing when the power goes off, especially if it's updating the OS/2
> system info such as, for example, your desktop layout.)
>
But that does happen in the real world.
>
> First, figure out why none of your three sets of boot diskettes

The disks made from the HD stop with: IC7870.ADD failed to load. OS/2
is unable to operate your hard disk or diskette drive. ----

The disks made from the CD askes for disk 2 and after pressing enter
puts up a simmilar error message but with some characters missing. It
starts with space where the file name should be and then "Loading,
please wait... S/2 is unable...". Note the O in OS/2 is missing.

The disks from OS2BOOT stop with a cannot find RESOURCE.SYS.

Ray

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