From: mo@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Mohit Goyal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: PROBLEMS with OS/2 GA!!!!!!!!!
Date: 12 Apr 92 09:08:55 GMT
Reply-To: mo@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Mohit Goyal)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Originator: mo@mickey.cc.utexas.edu

Hello to all.  First of all, I have a 386-25 with a 64k cache.  I have 4
megs of 80ns RAM, 80 meg hard drive, and a STB Powergraph.  I also have
a generic AT keyboard by Lite-On.  I installed GA three days ago, and have
had NOTHING but problems.  Let me quickly add that I am an OS/2 supporter,
have been for quite a while.  I actively promote it, and because of this
was extremely upset and slighty embarresed(sp?) when it did not run
correctly on my computer.  Let's see, here are some of the problems.  It
is quite slow!  I knew that 4 megs is the minimum, and not the recommended,
but I did not think it would be this slow.  I have done away with WINDOWS
compatibility altogether because it is much to slow.  In the README file
it states that HPFS will not install if the system has 4 megs, but it 
installed on my machine.  Anyways, I later reinstalled under FAT hoping
some of my problems would go away, but unfortunently they haven't.  By
the way, system speed seems to be the same under either partition.  Both
times I partitioned the entire hard drive as one partition.  Now, on to
the problems.  I ran a program available from hobbes.nmsu.edu called
CPUSPEED and it loaded itself in a window and *locked the system*.  I had
to reboot.  If I press *either* numlock, capslock, or scrolllock anytime
during my OS/2 session, the keyboard locks up.  Also, I pressed capslock
form a full screen DOS session and the *system locked up*.  Sometimes, it
seems random, the system won't shutdown.  I'll choose the shutdown option,
it will say system is shutting down, please wait, and the hard drive will
eventually quit spinning, and if I click on the desktop I have complete
control of OS/2 again.  This has happened whenever I have had a non-OS/2
program running when I have tried to shutdown.  Also, is their no way
to have the numlock key light on when one boots up.  Also, I put three
icons in my startup file, OS/2 system, System clock, and PMComm.  All 
three loaded up fine when I booted up a few times, but one time after I
booted up, all three programs loaded, but the startup folder was empty.  
Also, I had changed the background on the OS/2 system window to the OS/2
logo bitmap, and whenever I booted up, it would load 2 OS/2 system windows,
one with a white background, the other with a OS/2 logo bitmap backgroud.
Now when I load up, it just loads up the OS/2 system windows with the white
background.  Does OS/2 lose information when one closes OS/2 w/o shutting
down?  I mean information that wasn't changed the entire session.  Also,
I own a IBM Personal Pageprinter I laser printer.  I seleceted this printer
when I installed OS/2, and the icon is on the desktop, but I can not drag
a file to it and have it print.  It responds 120 seconds later saying that
the printer is offline or not functioning.  How do I get my printer to
work?  Also, I have one of the exact cards listed in the readme as having
SVGA compatibility with OS/2.  I have turned SVGA on.  What does this mean
I can do with my system in SVGA mode now?   I don't know.  Please help me.
I have seen OS/2 GA run *perfect* (albeit a bit slow) on a friends computer
with the exact same setup I have, except he has a graphics card that does
VGA only.  In fact, right now I am running Qmodem on another persons computer.
He has OS/2 running on a 386-33 with 8 megs ram and a 200 meg hard drive.
He also has a fast VGA card.  The STB Ergo-VGA.  So I know that GA can run
fine.  All are of my system lock up's and such simply hardware problems?
I'm not sure who makes my motherboard.  I think it is Amptron.  The CPU is by
Intel.  Hardware compatibility seems like the only reason why it isn't 
working on my machine.  Someone tell my I am wrong.  Oh well, hopefully some
of you can answer some of my questions/problems.  I desperately want OS/2
to work on my system since I can't afford new hardware except for 4 more
megs of RAM, if I am lucky.  Thanks.