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Date:	Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:22:40 PST7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Armistice in IRQ wars (?) | system instability

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In <3D160D75.6A378B4E@pacbell.net>, on 06/23/02
at 09:03 AM, "J. R. Fox" said:

>available to me from the road -- regarding CLRTC, which I can't even
>locate with any assurance despite the diagram in my rev. of the manual.
>So, needless to say, I did not even attempt to use this.)

Give that the problem is fixed, I would say forget about it until you
really need it.

>just for the hell of it, and because it _should be_ irrelevant, I set
>OS/2 Memory > 64M to On. Then began the process of reinstating the Nic,

I should be irrelevant, but who knows. Recent BIOS's omit the option
which makes it a non-issue.

>last few weeks. Everything boots, no traps, no apparent resource
>conflicts. It's early yet, but everything seems to be working, including
>sound. And I'm kind of at a loss to understand any of this.

Sounds like you had an intermittent hardware problem. Moving boards
around often can clean these up.

>[I still think that W2K will raise _some_ objections to PNP being turned
>OFF, sooner or later, and would like to have a dialogue with any of you
>who also run that OS (off-List is fine), about some related issues.]

Well, if you are that worried, you could trun it on and see what happens.
If your traps come back, you have some information.

>Perhaps Steven can enlighten us as to just what it is about things like
>the Warp Centre or a screen saver that makes them a tripwire for the kind
>of resource / stability / CMOS problems I've been

My experience does not match yours. WarpCenter does tend to hang for
some. It's a poor implementation of a WPS object. However, keeping the
.ini's clean is usually enough to prevent this. The only screen saver I
use is the on built into the WPS. I've never had it cause hangs. Perhaps
others that are more aggressive in attempting to save power may cause
problems. None of these have caused CMOS upsets in my experience.

>experiencing ? NS Communicator I can readily imagine being a serious
>test, since it probably stresses the system more than anything else most

NS will hang if you restart it too many times. However, I believe that
this was actually an OS/2 base defect and was fixed in one of the MCP's.
The NS crashes that generate popuplog entries are just code defects.

Steven

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