SCOUG-HELP Mailing List Archives

<< Previous Message << >> Next Message >>

Date:	Wed, 7 May 2003 16:37:11 PDT7
From:	GARY.WONG@sbcglobal.net
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: ThinkPad T20 freezes/locks up, continued

=====================================================
If you are responding to someone asking for help who
may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
=====================================================

Let me restate the problem.

1) Sometimes BM comes up but then freezes (I can't use
the up/down cursor keys to select between Win98 or
MCP2). Or for that matter hitting the Enter key
doesn't do anything.
2) If I do select Win98, it freezes at the Win98
splash screen, or after it goes black.
3) If I select MCP2 (the default), it freezes at the
white OS/2 blob in the upper left-hand corner, or at
the OS/2 Warp splash screen with the kernel revision
in the lower left-hand corner.

At this point, yes I am not sure if it's the contents
of the hard drive, or some other hardware problem.
The fact is, that I can boot from diskette (run a
diagnostic utility under DOS, or the OS/2 utility
diskettes until I get the "OS/2 is unable to operate
your hard drive" message. FWIW.
--- Original Message ---
From: "Steven Levine"
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: ThinkPad T20 freezes/locks up,
continued

>=====================================================
>If you are responding to someone asking for help who
>may not be a member of this list, be sure to use the
>REPLY TO ALL feature of your email program.
>=====================================================
>
>In ZZ@www2.prodigy.net>, on 05/07/03
> at 11:52 AM, GARY.WONG@sbcglobal.net said:
>
>>But what would happen if I tried to boot from the
>>original Warp 4 installation diskettes, given that
>>doesn't have LVM?
>
>Nothing bad as long as you don't let fdisk change
anything. You will
>probably have to use the updated install diskettes
given the drive size
>etc.
>
>Since you get a failure just by moving the cursor in
BM, there's something
>very bad going on. The BIOS can read the drive or
you would not get BM on
>the screen. The code in the MBR can read the drive
or BM would not come
>up at all. If I have my facts straight, it's still
unknown if the BM code
>is damaged or if the problem is bad hardware.
>
>Steven
>
>--
>------------------------------------------------------
---------------
>"Steven Levine" MR2/ICE 2.37
#10183 Warp4/FP15/14.085_W4
>www.scoug.com irc.webbnet.org #scoug (Wed 7pm PST)
>------------------------------------------------------
---------------
>
>
>=====================================================
>
>To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message
>to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message,
>put the command "unsubscribe scoug-help".
>
>For problems, contact the list owner at
>"rollin@scoug.com".
>
>=====================================================
>
>

=====================================================

To unsubscribe from this list, send an email message
to "steward@scoug.com". In the body of the message,
put the command "unsubscribe scoug-help".

For problems, contact the list owner at
"rollin@scoug.com".

=====================================================

Return to [ 07 | May | 2003 ]

SCOUG, Warp Expo West, and Warpfest are trademarks of the Southern California OS/2 User Group. OS/2, Workplace Shell, and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks remain the property of their respective owners.