From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Help! Service Pack erases my desktop
Date: 10 Nov 1992 21:03:43 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca


Hello all. After reading all these problems people have been having with
the CSD, and suggestions that I should go back to the original OS/2 disk
installation (without the fixes and patches I've been downloading from
hobbes/ftp-os2), I waited till I got my new harddrive (I was getting a
new harddrive anyways) and reinstall OS/2 from scratch before applying
the CSD so that there is no fixes or patches or any other garbage in my
OS/2. So I went through the CSD installation successfully (when it told
me that I have a later dated file than that of the CSD, I was suspicious
since I just reinstall OS/2 from the original disk since I have no patches
or fixes installed so the CSD should have files later than thatof the
ones on my harddrive?i I took the later dated file So don't install from
the CSD disk). I rebooted and everything seems fine. 

I was in VGA mode. So I did my OS/2 boot disk reboot, installed Joel's 
ATI 1024x768x256c version 1.01 DISPLAY.DLL which I have been using on my
machine since the day it came out just fine. Rebooted from harddrive and
everything again came up just fine. So I loaded my 256 color bmp
background picture, re setup my desktop with my usual batch of icons and
applications around the perimeter of the screen like I've always used
OS/2 and everything looked fine. Shutdown to save the desktop and
rebooted. But since that reboot, I;ve been having problems.

Normally, the reboot (or when I first come home and turn on my machine
to start OS/2) comes up just fine. But every once in a while, I would
just get a blank grey screen desktop with no icons and no background.
Argh! Just a blank grey screen. I couldn't find anything anywhere. But
my desktop is there so I can right button and shutdown. I rebooted again
and again and sometimes I'd get my background back, and sometimes I'd
get some icons back. I even turned off my background picture but I still
get the same things so it's not that. And somethimes, it looks like I'm
only in 16 color mode only. What I'd have to do to recover my icons is
to go to my desktop (like there is anything else on the screen. :) ),
and do a Arrange which screws up the way I layed out my icons but at
least it brings my icons back to the desktop in 2 rows. So I;d have to
re setup my icons again{ And this would work for a number of reboots.
Then it'd blank out again. No pattern that I can see. ANd I'd have to
Arrange and resetup my desktop again. This is a pain! I've been testing
my CSD since it was release (I am using the second release) and this is
what's happened so far.

Has anyone else had/have this problem? Any solution? My pre-CSD verison
of OS/2 with the regular download of fixes and patches as they became
available for ftp has been working fine. SHould I nuke this CSD
installtion and go back to my pre-CSD? But that will also be a BIG pain
since I have to reinstall OS/2, then download and reinstall all those
patches which I dont really want to do. So if anyone can slove this CSD
problem for me, I'd rather go this route.

Thanks in advance.

Thomas.