Hi, everyone.
I hope this is the appropriate place to post this...anyhow, I'm having a strange problem with OS/2 and I'm not quite sure how to fix this. Let me explain (and this is a little long-winded): I'm running Warp 4.52 (MCP2) on a Compaq Deskpro EN (P3/533, 640MB RAM) for my BBS. The built-in video adapter is a ATI 3D Rage Pro with 8MB RAM. I've been using this machine for nearly a year now with no problems. However, recently, I bought a 19" monitor (a Gateway EV910). I've made no other hardware changes to the board since I first bought it a year ago.
After installing the monitor on the machine, changing the resolution to 1280x1024@65K, all was well. But, two days ago, I'd made some changes to CONFIG.SYS and had to reboot. After rebooting, the system changed the resolution to 1280x1024i (interlaced), which with my crappy eyesight, I can't see very well. I went back to change the resolution and then the oddest thing happened: when I selected the System module to change the resolution, the system acted like it was opening the module, but the System module was hiding in the background!
No matter what little tricks I did to coax it up to the foreground worked. In fact, until I added SET RESTARTOBJECTS=STARTUPFOLDERSONLY, upon reboot, the System module would load and then lock the machine completely to where C-A-D wouldn't work (I have CADH installed). Well, after a little more poking around, I decided to switch from the stock ATI driver to SNAP (SNAP/se 7.0 comes with Warp 4.52).
Same problem. So, I switched it back to VGA from the Alt-F1 prompt, rebooted and the System module is STILL hiding! I've never had this problem before and it's really frustrating. Thankfully, the BBS and the BBS mail system are working perfectly in the background, but it's awful hard to do anything at 640x480...
So as the computer sits right now, I have the SNAP drivers installed at 640x480, unable to get the resolution any higher as the System module is hiding in the background. It shows up in the window list, in TOP and even if I CTRL-right click the Warpcenter window list button...but nothing seems to bring it to the front.
The only way I know of to fix this (after searching Google for a bit) is to reinstall OS/2. I /really, really/ don't want to do that as I have things set just as I want them and the system is purring right along as it sits.
Any ideas are welcome.
Thanks,
Sean