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- From: brokow@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Brokowski)
- Subject: HELP: Keyboard lockup!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.021309.16490@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Summary: keyboard locks up randomly (?)
- Sender: brokowski@nwu.edu
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- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:13:09 GMT
- Lines: 52
-
- Hello all,
-
- I posted about this before, but, other than a few people telling
- me that they have the same problem, I'm still in the dark about
- what to do.
-
- The problem is that my keyboard will lock up at seemingly random
- times. That is, I can be typing in EPM one minute, mouse to
- another part of the doc, click on it, have the cursor show up,
- and bingo: nothing! I can't type. The keyboard is dead. No
- Ctrl-Esc or Alt-Esc. Nada. Now, everthing else still works:
- The mouse is fine and I can use it to switch windows, move stuff,
- lauch applications, and shut down, but the keyboard doesn't come
- back and if I launch a text mode app I'm dead.
-
- I didn't mean to imply that EPM is the only app that starts this.
- It seems to happen any time, though I don't recall it happening
- *while* I'm typing or in a non-mouse-driven application. Any
- Win-OS/2 session is pretty much the worst offender - nearly
- instant lockup.
-
- Here is my setup:
-
- OS/2 2.0 (GA+SP) level XR06055 (graphics engine XR02010)
- no-name (OPTimum 386WB motherboard) AMD386-40MHz, (+math)
- 20MB RAM,
- 1MB ET4000 video (running 1024x768x8bit desktop),
- two (physical) ESDI hard drives.
- Logitech MouseMan Bus mouse (IRQ5)
- COM1 (9600 bps modem) (IRQ4)
- COM2 (IRQ3) and COM3 (IRQ9) unused
- LPT1 (IRQ7) (printer)
-
- I'm really stuck here. I can't reliably do much of anything
- while this persists. Could this be a problem with the mouse?
- I have it installed as a Bus Style Mouse and I'm using whatever
- drivers OS/2 put in the CONFIG.SYS (MOUSE.SYS, VMOUSE.SYS, and
- POINTDD.SYS I assume).
-
- /* Also, I've installed the SIO.SYS/VSIO.SYS drivers hoping to
- speed up TE/2's performance (I still get ~930cps though :-< ).
- Originally, under GA alone, I was having this same trouble
- which I thought was caused by PMTerm so I switched to TE/2.
- That seemed (I wish I had written exactly what I did) to work.
- Since then, I reinstalled GA+SP on different hard drives.
- Naturally, I suspected the V/SIO drivers here but I don't have
- to use the modem at all to cause a lockup and switching back
- to V/COM.SYS doesn't help either. AARGH! */
-
- Desparately,
-
- - Mike Brokowski
-