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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:59:17 PDT
From: "Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: TRAP0003

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In <200008201910.MAA17609@scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, on 08/20/00
at 12:10 PM, "Gary Granat" said:

>I'm running Warp 4 w/FP12 on both systems. I checked my desktop system
>and the RESOURCE.SYS there was 55354 bytes in length and was dated
>7-12-99 3:17p, as was the one on my Utility Diskette set (also at FP12).
>So, I renamed the existing driver and copied the one from the Utility
>Diskette 1 and tried a new boot. It still traps (TRAP0003) but the
>values are different:

OK, this make sense. RESOURCE.SYS is the Resource Manager. I know it
gets involved in ISA PnP. I would assume it's involved in PCI
configuration as well. Most likely, it's being passed bad data by another
driver and this is what's causing the trap.

>It occurs to me that the CHKDSK /F:3 that I did yesterday scrambled the
>system completely and that I might have components from several different
>fix levels all trying to run at the same time. Just a thought. If this

Not real likely.

>Volume 4.2) with the system booted from the Utility Diskette set. Any
>advice on this front? If that doesn't work, my next fallback is to save

There are ways to install a FP either from diskettes are from a maintenace
partition. However, I suspect that all you need to do it track down the
driver that's really causing the problem. If it were me, I'd start
REM'ing out things like the sound card etc. in an attempt to isolate the
true source.

>the INI files (for application registration information) and to do a
>format and reinstall. I'm beginning to think that it is time to reformat

You could do that. For me, it's always a last resort.

>partitions, anyway, because the ThinkPad hasn't had that done for quite a
>while (ever, in fact). That means that those partitions have been
>running for about three years.

Shouldn't be a problem. I've got boxes that haven't been reinstalled
since 1997.

>As far as the xWorkplace stuff is concerned, I'm tending to discount it
>as the issue, for now, for a couple of reasons: 1) basically, it is a set

This is true, but doesn't it load a driver to support some sort of
advanced shutdown features?

>system components are loaded and become active and on what EXEINFO
>reports as being "the problem". If anyone has a better interpretation,
>let me know.

Not yet. Let me know how the REM'ing goes.

You might want to try a full hardware detection just in case something got
tweaked.

Also, I don't recall, have you been able to Alt-F1 boot to the command
line?

Steven

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