From: tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson)
Subject: GP fault, and Sharing violtion ???? Help, what are they?
Summary: need help
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:02:31 GMT
Keywords: errors




I posted 2 notes a couple of days ago about 2 errors I had been getting.
Here is a slight update and another call for help out there!

The first error was:

         Application Error

Draw has caused an error in win-os2*.
GP Fault in Module: GDI.EXE at 0015:0310
Press OK to close application.


The error only happened with the Tseng 640x480x256 color driver installed.
IBM's response was to check the batch number and bios revision and get back
to them... They said that only 1 or 2 other people had reported anything 
similar.  I've gotten email from more than 1 or 2 people who had the problem.
Please give IBM a call if you have the problem.  Many of the people were not
using the Tseng driver, but one of the other new drivers I think, which leads
me to believe it is not the batch of chips my Tseng came from.  They indicated
they would not do anything until I get back to them, which I plan on as soon
as I can pull my computer apart, or until other people indicate the problem.


The second error was a Sharing violation that came up with the new HP550C
and AMI PRO with multiple page documents where one or more had color.
I do not know if it will happen with other programs since this is the only
multipage color program I have right now.

The error was:

(FIRST BOX)

Sharing Violation on driver C:

Cancel              Retry

Upon 'Retry' nothing changes,
upon 'Cancel'

(SECOND BOX)

Disk I/O Error.  Free up disk space
or change xxxxxxxxx setting.
Aborting Print

     OK


I forgot what the xxxxxxxx setting was, but it is used to reduce the quality
of the printout.

It seems almost like it cannot write to the root directory.  When I have one
of these errors I end up with a file in the root directory that varies in
size, named  ~hpxxx.tmp.

The solution from IBM, 'call HP, it's a driver we didn't write'
The solution from HP,  'we don't have OS?2 on any of our machines so we can
                        test the problem.  Besides we don't support OS/2 
                        with the driver'

HP did suggest that I give the windows session more memory because their
driver supposedly uses 2 meg on its own.  So I gave the windows session
8 meg extended and 8 meg expanded thru the win-os2 settings.  It did change
the amount of time it took for the error to occur.

In an attempt to isolate the problem I reformatted the hard disk, only
4-6 times so far since the SP came out in attempts to isolate problems, and
reinstalled OS/2 GA.  Since I added the SP and the 550C at the same time
I thought this might be a culprit.  With GA things don't seem much different,
except now I'm getting a #$%^&* GP fault in GDI.EXE from AMI PRO sometimes.
Never happened before.  This is crazy.  I'm going to reinstal OS/2 from
the ground up with a reformatted hard disk again and go thru this stuff one
piece at a time.  Can you wear out a hard disk reformatting it????

Any ideas what a Sharing violation is???????

Also, any ideas when IBM and HP might get cozy and actually get some printer
drivers out????

Oh, during my talk with the IBM rep, I found out that my PC should not be
able to install OS/2.  The keyboard bios revision is all wrong!!!!  This info
came about when I was trying to find out why the mouse continues to pop to
the top of the screen!  

The bios is from AMI and the MB uses a symphany(SP?) chipset I believe.
Some of the numbers at the bottom of my screen during boot up are:


xxxxx.....-070791-SYMPH-8
                        ^ the rep said this '8' means that my computer should
not like OS/2.  Maybe it's just now figuring this out.


Enough of my wondering thru my troubles.  If anyone has any ideas please
send me some email at:

 tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu

I originally had very few troubles with OS/2.

Sorry for my diatribe(I think that's the word I want) about my troubles.  I'm
just slightly frustrated and am out of possible solutions?????

Any ideas would be appreciated.(is anyone from team OS/2 at IBM listening???)

Oh yea, the machine is:

Maxtor 7120 ide driver
486DX-33 with 8 meg mother board from EISA TECH CORP.
Diamond Speedstar+ hicolor 1 meg. vidieo
Magvox, cheap 14 inch vga monitor.

Thanks,

Todd

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