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Help!!! DOS Compatibility is broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Twyman)
Wed Oct 11 20:32:15 1995
To: os2partners@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 20:31:43 EDT
From: Andrew Twyman <kurgan@MIT.EDU>
Help!!!!
I'm making a desperate call for help, as Warp has done something
extremely un-nice to me today. As I went to do some word-processing in MS Word
for Windows, I found that it would not load. Upon further investigation, I
found that no Windows Apps would load (they would cause a clock for a bit, and
then just do nothing). Running a Win-OS/2 full screen gave the error "Failed to
load USER.EXE" before returning me to OS/2. I never tried at that point to run
any DOS apps. I figured that if I uninstalled, and then reinstalled Win-OS/2
support (I'm using standard Warp, not fullpack) it would probably fix things. I
did this, and found afterwards that DOS compatibility had somehow stopped
working. I assumed that it had been uninstalled along with Win-OS/2 support, so
I deinstalled both, and then selectively installed both again. One thing
I found strange in the install was that in the options for DOS
installation, the selections to install DPMI and Virtual-EMS were greyed
out, while only the Virtual-XMS option was selectable. During the installation
process, I had been forced into standard VGA mode, since somehow the install
wasn't correctly detecting my hardware configuration (I have an ATI Mach64 card,
and a Gateway 200 MAG monitor).
With all this said and done, now I am totally unable to run any DOS or
Windows Apps. If I run from a PM object, I get the friendly 'Cannot Start'
window. If I run from an OS/2 prompt, I get "SYS0008: There is not enough memory
available to process this command. \ All available memory is in use." for even
simple DOS commands (like COMMAND.COM or MEM.EXE). I have tons of memory free
(about 10MB unused out of my 16MB RAM + 16MB swapfile) and lots of extra
swapspace, so there shouldn't be any problem here at all.
So here I am, trapped without the ability to run non-OS/2 Apps, and
stuck in standard VGA since my display adapter utility (needed to get the
hardware settings) is a DOS program. Does anyone have any idea at all what
could be causing this? I really don't relish the idea of reinstalling Warp, and
all the other reinstallations that would require (Bonuspack, TCP/IP, PMX, etc).
Please give me suggestions.
Thanks.
Andrew
