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- From: KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn)
- Message-ID: <19930102.064154.91@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 09:41:50 EST
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: It almost gets to the WPS, but...
- Organization: Staff of IBM Fellow - IBM Personal/370
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- References: <1992Dec30.163623.15268@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- <1305@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
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- In <1305@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Neal Traven writes:
- >A very odd occurrence this morning. I've been using OS/2 on my 8MB 486/33 for
- >about 4 months, with no trouble at all. Today, when I turned on the computer,
- >it went through the usual boot procedure for awhile -- the screen went to
- >white, the little clock became a pointer, the Desktop 'exploded.' And there it
- >sat -- no icons, none of the startup windows, NOTHING more appeared.
- >
- >The first time this occurred, I rebooted and then it came up normally. Next
- >time I turned it on, it hung again with the white screen and a pointer, but
- >neither warm nor cold boots would take the process any further. I turned off
- >the computer and let it sit for a few hours, and the next time I booted it
- >seems to have worked just fine (hey, I'm writing this note, so *something* is
- >working).
- >
-
- Just as a first attempt, this could happen if the system doesn't have enough
- SWAP space. Check your SWAPPER.DAT file and see if the disk drive it is on
- is close to full. If so, see i you can move the SWAP file to another drive
- with more space available.
-