Re: System Upgrade Problems

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From: George Vlahoulis
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1995 00:00

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George Vlahoulis (s9312643@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU) wrote:
> Hi all, I just upgraded my system from a 486-33dx 8MB to a P90 with 16MB and dos 
> sessions refuse to work. every time a dos session is started a SYS3175 error is
> returned and the session is killed.

> This happens for window and full screen. Now the copy of warp i have is the 
> gamma version and so I tried the GA version of 2.1 which I have installed in 
> another partition but the same thing happens. 

> I even reinstalled the 2.1 version thinking that that will help but it didnt.

> Nothing else is wrong its only the dos sessions that dont work. Very strange...

> Some details about my new system.

> PCI P90 with 16mb of ram
> Motherboard has inbuilt EIDE hd controller; used 
> PCI cirrus logic 5430 video card
> old hd controller used for the floppy drive.
> sb16asp
> panasonic cdrom

I forgot to mention that the motherboard has an award BIOS dated Apr 1995


> BTW: when I first tried to start warp because the internal hd controller was 
> used and the hd connection on the card in the isa slot was not disabled, it 
> crashed but when it was disabled it was fine.


> Please anyone if you now what is happening do email me as I have xposted it to 
> several newsgroups and I dont have the time to check all of them.

> thanks.

> PS: is there a way to change the video driver without having os2 accessing that 
> dos program which determines the hardware? I cant change my video driver I am 
> stuck with vga and 16 colors.



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From: s9312643@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (George Vlahoulis)
Subject: Re: System Upgrade Problems
Date: 1995/07/05
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