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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:40:20 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 <200008242054.NAA16720@snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, on 08/24/00
at 01:54 PM, "Gary Granat" said:

Gary,

>OK. Maybe I'm dense, but how would one induce "full hardware detection"
>under these circumstances? You mentioned that, but I guess it got lost
>in the noise between the ears.

Alt-F1 at the boot blob should get you a menu. This all happens before
the resource manager loads, TTBOMK. Let me know what happens.

>I wish it were that simple. I haven't been in to the configuration

That's what I expect you to say. I'm sure you would told me if I had.
I'm just throwing out ideas.

>that when I did the /F:3 CHKDSK, an old "configuration file" (or whatever
>the configuration program uses) got written in place of the current one.
>Possible?

Anything's possible. A rewrite is unlikely. However, a truncation of
some sort is not.

Let's try this. From the Thinkpad backups on your main box, restore the
contents of the root directory and the contents of \os2\boot to work
directories on the main box. Look at the *.DAT and *.LST files in these
directories and compare them to what's on the Thinkpad. Maybe something
will show up.

>a talking point when some work comes my way, which is seldom. I booted
>NT for the first time in nearly five months about ten days ago to run a
>WIN32 program my sister sent me. I don't think I have been in the NT

Was that before or after the problems started?

>seriously considering scratching the NT partition because I could the the
>1.6GB of space more productively under OS/2. But, it is still there.

You can probably shrink it down quite a bit with PartitionMagic. Mine's
about 1.5GB and probably only half-full.

>And, NT still boots. I would think that if there was a serious change,
>it wouldn't boot and I would have to use a hardware restore to get it to
>work.

I would not say that. The OS's are just plain different.

That the Warp install diskettes boot says that the hardware is probably
OK.

> IBM EtherJet PC Card:
> IRQ 15
> Port 0x300

Have you tried booting without the NIC installed?

> LPT1
> Bidirectional
> IRQ 7
> DMA3

FWIW, you are using polled IO for printing. Not an issue at the moment.

>just fine. I don't know much about how the ThinkPad Configuration
>program works. I presume it is reporting values from actual hardware
>settings. Does it record these somewhere, and if so, does it make a
>comparison?

They are recording in the CMOS. There's not historical compare or undo
functionality.

>It is sounding more and more like this is a hardware issue; given that,
>I'm beginning to wonder whether an OS/2 reinstall would fix things.

It probably would because whatever table is broken would get rebuilt. If
you could restore from you backups, it would be a relatively fast test to
just install Warp4 base..

FWIW, I hauled out the disassembler and took a look at resource.sys. You
are running the version from Warp4 GA, not the DD FP01 version. I can see
the int 3 that's causing your trap. Basically, it's running off the end
of a table and not finding something that should be in the table. Without
source code, it's is just too time consuming to figure out exactly why.

Steven

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