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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Screen goes blank upon bootup of OS.2 2.0, HELP
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.222013.525@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 22:20:13 GMT
- References: <45048@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1993Jan1.185039.14746@midway.uchicago.edu> <457@casemo.UUCP>
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- Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- Lines: 33
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- In article <457@casemo.UUCP> keating@casemo.UUCP (John Keating ) writes:
- >> I finally got around to installing OS/2 on
- >> my clone but I have had a few problems. The first error
- >> was the one were the number c00000005 came up on the screen.
- >> I got the fix for that which apparently worked. Now when
- >> I boot up, the three OS/2 windows come up, then they disapper,
- >> a two line message appears for a split second then disappers.
- >> After that nothing happens. When I start pushing buttons
- >> the Hard Drive is accessed and sometimes an annoying boink is made.
- >> Anybody know whats wrong?
- >> Your desktop did not get built properly, it seems. Follow the
- >> procedure in the manual for using MAKEINI to rebuild the desktop.
- >I'm not sure about that... From personal experience, it sounds like a video
- >problem... With my Gateway and a Local Bus ATI GUP card, I had to make sure
- >that during setup of my video card, I had the monitor set to VGA, rather than
- >to the specific monitor type.
- >I'm still experiencing the problem if I try to add com3 or com4 to my system.
- >(3,3e8,5) (4,2e8,2)... Video disappears, but the system has actually been
- >started..
-
- Quite possible, although I don't recall if the original poster
- specified he was using an ATI Graphics Ultra Plus with a Gateway 2000.
-
- See if changing (4,2E8,2) to (4,2E8,9) helps solve that COM problem
- for you. Also, give the SIO COM drivers a try, available via
- anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu, filename sio020.zip, directory
- /pub/uploads (although they will be moved).
-
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