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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:54:29 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 <200008251847.LAA03518@harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, on 08/25/00
at 11:47 AM, "Gary Granat" said:

Gary,

>ALT+F1 at the blob displays the "emergency" menu. Pressed F5 to do "full
>hardware detection" and got the same TRAP0003. Started up on the Utility

Just for laughs, try renaming resource.sys. The kernel is supposed to be
able to cope with it not being there. Just trying to make something
change.

Another option would be to comment out lines in snoop.lst. Again, just
trying to get something to change.

>Diskettes and did a CHKDSK because the trap in those circumstances seems
>to leave the HPFS partitions (which is all I have) in a "dirty" state.

Makes some sense.

>Went back afterward and did ALT+F1 at the blob, pressed F2 and got
>TRAP0003. Whatever the problem is, none of these tools seems able to
>bypass it.

:-(

>Results are attached as TPDATLST.TXT. Basically, they show that
>equivalent *.DAT and *.LST files are the same length. I peaked at the
>content of a couple of the *.DAT files, but since they are a mix of text
>and binary (sort of an *.INI format, as far as I can determine) there is
>nothing obviously wrong.

The originals and the backups are probably the same. You could copy the
originals to the DFI and use COMP to do a binary compare. If they are
different, you could replace the orginals from the copy on the backup.

The format is non-standard. I can't read DOS.DAT with UNIMAINT.

>Somewhere between three and six days before. When it is working, the

OK, probably not related.

>encountered a surly operating system! NT DID NOT LIKE having the disk
>space reduced by even as much as a KB!

Interesting. Which version of Partition Magic did you use?

>5/16/2000 backup. I'm tempted to format before the restore (just because
>that is what I would normally do). Thoughts?

I would try a full restore with overwrite first. The restore will go
quick over the network. If that doesn't work, then format and restore.
It's as easy a way as any to delete all the files from thg boot drive.
You should only have to restore the boot drive.

>added) apply FP12 and DDP01. I have a fairly old desktop backup (done on
>01/12/2000) that should add back in all my apps, up to that point, which
>will be essentially all of them. Then, it is just a matter of updating

If you are lucky this will work. Restoring desktop backups after an
install is dicey, at best. Also, be sure the DD01 does not wipe out any
of the Thinkpad specific drivers. I don't think it will, but it is
something to watch.

Steven

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