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In message <4ooanl$hj0@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> - gaylen fraley
<gfraley@primenet.com>31 May 1996 19:43:01 -0700 writes:
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:>I've seen numerous posts and have been a victim of this problem; until now. 
:>I have the latest Triton PII drivers.  I have tried every suggestion in 
:>the news groups.  Nothing worked.  If I have a music cd in my 4x Atapi 
:>CD-ROM, my pentium 133 will NOT boot.  It hangs before it gets to the 
:>boot manager screen.  Any other kind of CD, as long as track 1 does not 
:>contain music, will boot.  I just flashed my bios to the latest (just 
:>released) bios for my machine and LO & BEHOLD!  It boots INSTANTLY with any 
:>kind of CD!  So, if you continue to experience the boot up problems, 
:>it may well be your bios.  If this is old news, please disregard the post and 
:>let it die! :-) 

yep i had a problem like that but os/2 used to stop loading if i had a music
cd in (problem is gone now, dunno what the problem was either).

the first thing you should check is to see if you have your bios set to boot
cdrom-h/d-a: I think only ami bios's have this option (dunno haven't got the
latest award one) but it could of been trying to boot from the audio cd and
failed so it locked up?

In <4orjfr$fm3@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>, rpoirier@unixg.ubc.ca  (Ron Poirier) writes:
>I don't challenge your description, but I suspect this is more of
>a general problem than BIOS and boot. All of the posts I've seen
>about this complain about general system hangs (at any time)
>with a music CD in the drive. For example, I have this problem.
>The OS/2 music-CD player hangs the system for a while when
>it starts, and any app (e.g., a file manager) that scans all the
>drives when it starts up hangs similarly. I only get a hang of
>about 5-10 sec, but a lot of the people who have posted
>complain of several-minute hangs.
>This thread has appeared many times before and I've yet to
>see any resolution. Of course, it could be two different and
>unrelated problems too -- who knows.

Well, if you're seeing a symptom where the system hangs for a while,
and then starts up again....   AND the pointer still moves around the 
screen in response to mouse movement...

You're probably seeing the "single input queue" problem.

I write PM code, and can reproduce this problem at will,
(and sometimes not at will ! :-> ).

It's simple.  write some code that takes an event off the input
queue and does some loooooong processing before letting the
input queue know that the program took the event off.

There are work-arounds in fix-pack 17, and a fix promised
(or so I hear....) for Merlin.  I'm going to take a look at Merlin
next Tue, (as will many other people...) so maybe we'll know
more then....

-BOBm