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Date:	Thu, 1 May 2003 17:09:10 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: files not found

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In <20030501101157.23c85a59.eyeleica@lvcm.com>, on 05/01/03
at 10:08 AM, Butch Langel said:

>Status window. The mouse would move, but nothing on the desktop but the
>archive status window. I had to cntrl-alt-delete to reboot and the same
>thing happened.

Sounds like a problem in the \OS2\ARCHIVE directory. Perhaps you blew
away the directory to make space or a control file got munged.

>My next move was to start in revovery mode. I selected the 0 option (
>original settings) and started up. Now when I start the system I am
>getting these error messages:

Bad move. You just blew away your prior setup with no easy way of getting
it back. You told OS/2 to put config.sys and the Desktop back to the
state they were at the last time ARCHINST ran. This was probably when you
installed Warp.

You could have fixed the boot hang without this, but that would have
required asking questions before taking action.

> SYS1718 Sustem cannot find the file C:\MPTN\PROTOCOL\IFNDIS.SYS
>specified
> in the DEVICE statement on line 21 of the CONFIG.SYS file. Line 121
>is
> ignored. Press enter to continue.

You must have deleted the files at some point. This does not appear to be
a simple driver load failure.

>The system then boots and the desktop appears. Colors and icons
>sometimes appear abnormal and the system is freezing at times.

This could be hardware or could be software.

>Any explanations for the cause and recommendations for corrections?

The reason for the problem is operator malfunction.

To recover, I would edit CONFIG.SYS and REM out the DEVICE statement for
the files that are gone. Then I would spend some time checking hardware
connections. Then I would spend some quality time with CHECKINI. After
that, run ARCHINST from the command line so you have an usable Desktop
backup to matches the installed files.

You might want to consider reinstalling your video drivers after this.

Steven

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