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- From: bab@se39.wg2.waii.com (Brian Button)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Unexpected DOS Error 5 ?????
- Message-ID: <BAB.93Jan2122438@se39.wg2.waii.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 17:24:38 GMT
- Organization: Western Geophysical Exploration Products
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- While I was home over Christmas, I happened to start talking to a
- friend about PC's. It turns out he had just purchased a 486DX2/66 and
- was running OS/2 with dual-boot. After I quit drooling, I started
- helping him configure it to run at its best.
-
- During this process, we ran into a couple of problems I couldn't solve.
-
- 1) He was running an ATI Ultra Plus (I think that's what it was
- called). OS/2 put it into 8514/A mode at VGA resolution by default,
- and he's unhappy with the refresh rate and the resolution.
-
- My best answer for him, especially after reading a few of the threads
- around this group the past few days, is to live with it until OS/2
- 2.1, which should have ATI drivers. Any other suggestions?
-
- 2) The much more serious problem was an error message when we tried to
- start up a bunch of migrated DOS apps. He kept getting the error
- message mentioned in the Subject for this post. I've seen this before,
- but I can't remember how I fixed it. I suggested that he just
- reinstall most of these apps under OS/2, but I promised to check this
- out before he did that. Any help for him?
-
- Any help anyone can give would go a long way to completing my friend's
- commitment to OS/2 over DOS/MS-Windows, which would be a Good Thing :)
-
- bab
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