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- From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Crashing OS/2 - No.1
- Message-ID: <7891@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 13:09:17 GMT
- References: <Bxv0nE.nJ@brunel.ac.uk>
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- In article <Bxv0nE.nJ@brunel.ac.uk> me90plb@brunel.ac.uk (Paul L Barnfather) writes:
- >Why does this cause OS/2 to hang, requiring a COLD reboot:
- >-Start ANY WIN-OS/2 program seamless.
- >-Drag something on the WPS desktop.
- >This causes the mouse pointer to disappear, and the keyboard locks.
- >Any running apps. also 'freeze'. I then need to cold reboot.
-
- On my system, the mouse pointer stayed around, but the rest of it locked up. I
- had to hit the reset switch.
-
- >I'm fairly sure the problem bust be specific to my system[...]
-
- Most likely not. My system isn't much like yours: 386-40, Cyrix 387, 16 meg,
- serial mouse on COM1:, 512K Trident 9000 in 800x600x16 with original Trident
- drivers, Adaptec ACB2372B RLL controller, and Maxtor XT1140 drive (formatted
- as 40 meg C: and 191 meg D:).
- --
- Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
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