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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:42:29 PDT7
From: "Harry Motin" <hmotin@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: < "scoug-help@scoug.com" > scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject: SCOUG-Help: can't install eCs 1.1 onto a Toshiba Satellite A45-S121

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On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 06:44:36 PDT7, DAVID ROSE wrote:

>it can't get passed 'loading SCREEN01.sys'....what's
>happening??

May I suggest that you make or copy the file, altf2on.$$$, to the root directory of your OS
installation. altf2on.$$$ is an ASCII text file with some text in it and with the filename as
altf2on.$$$. Then, as you boot, you will get a listing (to your screen) of all the things that
config.sys does during the boot. I believe that the boot process detects the existence
of this file and acts as if you had pressed Alt-F2 during the boot.

With altf2on.$$$ in your system you will be able to see which loading driver is hanging
you up. Then you can deal with that (probably by not loading that driver, at least
temporarily).

Without the use of the altf2on.$$$ you really don't know which driver is causing the
problem. When I installed ECS I had a problem with the APM.SYS drivers during the
install. Per the instructions in the FAQ.TXT file I REM'ed out the 3 lines in the
CONFIG.SYS that dealt with APM.SYS. I proceeded with the remainder of the ECS
install just fine. Then, I absent-mindedly un-REM'ed the APM.SYS lines and I started
having trouble with the boot up hanging. It looked like my UBS drivers were causing the
hang, but nothing I did with them corrected the problem. Then, I copied the altf2on.$$$ to
my system, booted up and saw that it was actually the APM.SYS driver.

Attached please find a copy of my altf2on.$$$ file. Or, you can make your own.

HCM

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