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In article <27uc2oINNhtb@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at> warmuth@wi-pc7.wu-wien.ac.at (Michael Warmuth) writes:
>For some weeks, my system at home (386sx, 16 Mhz, ISA-bus, 8 MB RAM,
>2 IDE Drives with 50 and 200 MB, 256 KB OAK VGA card) hangs during boot:
>Performing a cold boot the system hangs after showing the grey PM screen
>and having some disk access. The mouse pointer shows sometimes the
>clock, sometimes not. If I do a Ctrl-Esc the disk light flashes once,
>but nothing else happens. After the three finger salut (C-A-D) the
>system boots correctly and works without problems.
>
>The first time I mentioned this strange behaviour was after I installed
>the MMOS/2 with the speaker driver (SPKRDD.SYS). Maybe this is the
>reason for the problem.
>

Well this is quite a coincidence, I was just about to send out a request
for help on a similar (exact?) problem I just encountered.  My system also
hangs when the grey screen (after the OS/2 logo screen) appears (always with
the clock showing).

However, my system refuses to boot OS/2 no matter what I try.  On some
reboot attempts CHKDSK is run, but on others CHKDSK is not run.  I do NOT
have SPKRDD.SYS installed.

Now the bizarre part...My system was working just fine last night.  Today
its gone and I've changed NOTHING!  I'm at a loss to explain what's going on.
Is there some procedure to try that can give me some clue as to why its hung?
I can boot DOS from diskette and things seem normal, but I want my OS/2 back!  

For informational purposes I'm running 2.1, have a SoundBlaster card
installed, my machine is a 486-66 EISA with an AMI caching SCSI controller and
500 Meg hard drive and Toshiba 3401 CD-ROM.  Oh yea, I am using a Sixgraph
P9000 card.

Any help would be greatly apprecieated!!!!!



--Joe Katz
jkatz@netcom.com