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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 11:47:39 PDT
From: "Gary Granat" <ggranat@earthlink.net >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: < "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject: SCOUG-Help: TRAP0003


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On Thu, 24 Aug 2000 14:40:20 PDT, Steven Levine wrote:

>>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.

Not sure what TTBOMK is, but....

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
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. 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.

>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.

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.

>>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?

Somewhere between three and six days before. When it is working, the ThinkPad
is booted everyday, along with the DFI system. I am thoroughly networked,
anymore; I even run RelishNet :-)

>>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.

I thought so, too, and did that. Its the first time I've ever encountered a
surly operating system! NT DID NOT LIKE having the disk space reduced by even
as much as a KB!

>Have you tried booting without the NIC installed?

Yes. No joy there, either.

>>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..

I'm working on development of disaster recovery diskettes, per the Mr. KIA
article you mentioned. I'll let you know how things go once I get a set up and
working.

I think this is the strategy I'm going to follow:

1) Get the disaster recovery setup working and do a restore of the 5/16/2000
backup. I'm tempted to format before the restore (just because that is what I
would normally do). Thoughts?

2) If the restore doesn't work (or I can't get the disaster recovery setup
working within a reasonable period) do a reinstall over the top of the current
installation, and (after all to other "supplemental" stuff is 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 odds and ends to get back to about
where I was before all this stuff started.

3) If nothing else works, it is format and reinstall time. In that case, I
have a lot of work to do to reestablish my apps. I may be able to do some of
it without actually doing a reinstall, but that remains to be seen.

I'll keep you posted on progress.

--gary
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ggranat@earthlink.net


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