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What to do if Virtual PC for OS/2 Hangs

What to do if Virtual PC for OS/2 Hangs
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:29:17 GMT
A while back I read a question that someone had about Virtual PC for OS/2 
Hanging.  I believe that was on the Innotek website and since SUN acquired 
Innotek, all the information is gone which is too bad because there was 
good OS2 and eComStation information there. None of the downloads are 
available either.

So, the question was, "why does Virtual PC hang...  I cant get it to start

and my whole computer hangs..."

Two things have worked for me:

1) do a chkdsk on all disks.

2) reinstall (a pain) or have a backup directory of VPC and copy back all 
the EXE and DLL and SYS files.

Sometimes if you are running VPC and you get a trap this can happen.  
Replacing the files usually does the trick.

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Re: What to do if Virtual PC for OS/2 Hangs
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:10:13 GMT
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:29:17 UTC, planetecs@earthlink.net (David Hart)
wrote:

> A while back I read a question that someone had about Virtual PC for OS/2 
> Hanging.  I believe that was on the Innotek website and since SUN acquired

> Innotek, all the information is gone which is too bad because there was 
> good OS2 and eComStation information there. None of the downloads are 
> available either.

That's wrong. It's all still there. 
<http://www.innotek.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&
i
d=4&Itemid=29>

> 
> So, the question was, "why does Virtual PC hang...  I cant get it to
start 
> and my whole computer hangs..."
> 
> Two things have worked for me:
> 
> 1) do a chkdsk on all disks.
> 
> 2) reinstall (a pain) or have a backup directory of VPC and copy back all 
> the EXE and DLL and SYS files.
> 
> Sometimes if you are running VPC and you get a trap this can happen.  
> Replacing the files usually does the trick.

I use VPC, and while the guest crashes frequently, the host seems 
pretty solid. The only thing that consistantly screws up VPC is 
running out of memory.


-- 
Expert Consulting for OS/2 and eComStation
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Re: What to do if Virtual PC for OS/2 Hangs
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:24:56 +010
On 18.03.08 05.10, Neil Waldhauer wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:29:17 UTC, planetecs@earthlink.net (David
> Hart) wrote:
>
>> So, the question was, "why does Virtual PC hang... I cant get it
to
>> start and my whole computer hangs..."
>>
>> Two things have worked for me:
>>
>> 1) do a chkdsk on all disks.
>>
>> 2) reinstall (a pain) or have a backup directory of VPC and copy
>>    back all the EXE and DLL and SYS files.

Wy don't use the VPC installer?

>> Sometimes if you are running VPC and you get a trap this can
>> happen. Replacing the files usually does the trick.
>
> I use VPC, and while the guest crashes frequently, the host seems
> pretty solid. The only thing that consistantly screws up VPC is
> running out of memory.

ACK. I never had problems on using the installer to repair things on
the host. Innotek made it pretty well.

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Re: What to do if Virtual PC for OS/2 Hangs
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:52:45 -050
Neil Waldhauer wrote:
> 
> That's wrong. It's all still there. 
>
<http://www.innotek.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&
i
> d=4&Itemid=29>
> 

Did not work from here.
www.innotek.de indicated SUN bought them.   :{

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Re: What to do if Virtual PC for OS/2 Hangs
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:56:46 GMT
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:52:45 UTC, Rich Wonneberger 
<turtil@frontiernet.net> wrote:

> Neil Waldhauer wrote:
> > 
> > That's wrong. It's all still there. 
> >
<http://www.innotek.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&
i
> > d=4&Itemid=29>
> > 
>  
> Did not work from here.
> www.innotek.de indicated SUN bought them.   :{
> 

It worked when I posted, but not now.

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Expert Consulting for OS/2 and eComStation
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