One of my OS/2 systems must be pushing 20 years old and is starting to...
show signs of hardware failure. I'm faced with the choice of either
getting new, faster, more modern hardware and fighting with OS/2 compatibility issues, or trying to repair the existing system, which
is still surprisingly capable despite its age. The trick to the
latter choice is to figure out what component is failing.
I think the component that is most likely to fail is the power supply.
In particular, if it is too small in power.
I cannot say for sure if this is the problem with your system but power supplies are not that expensive (compared to the MOBO at least) and
therefore I would give that a try.
And make sure if offers plenty of Watts. Pick a larger one than what you currently have.
Lars
On 02.08.20 03.49, tholen@antispam.ham wrote:
One of my OS/2 systems must be pushing 20 years old and is starting to...
show signs of hardware failure. I'm faced with the choice of either
getting new, faster, more modern hardware and fighting with OS/2
compatibility issues, or trying to repair the existing system, which
is still surprisingly capable despite its age. The trick to the
latter choice is to figure out what component is failing.
I've not yet noticed any pattern to the random reboots. The machine
can be up for many days when it decides to just stop without any kind
of error message and reboot. However, by far the most frequent
occurrence of a failure is associated with the reboot process itself, specifically when the white square and OS/2 appear in the upper left
corner of the screen. If it gets past that point, the system can
remain up for days at a time, but I've seen the system reboot process interrupted at that particular point many consecutive times. Could
be an ambient temperature issue, with some component having become particularly sensitive to overheating.
This much I can say. The Adaptec 29160 SCSI bus scan happens just
fine. The system can boot from a MEMTEST 3.0 bootable CD just fine
and run tests on memory for hours without failure. Furthermore, the
machine has error-correcting memory, and the BIOS hasn't recorded any
events, so I'm fairly confident that the SCSI adapter and memory aren't
the source of the problem.
I have Boot Manager installed, and that always comes up just fine, so
the Boot Manager partition appears to be okay, as is the disk controller.
I have the operating system installed on two different partitions, both
on the same physical disk as the Boot Manager partition. Doesn't matter which one I try to boot from; I get the reboot when "white square OS/2" appears with either, so I doubt the failure is associated with a
particular disk partition.
Does anybody familiar with the details of the OS/2 boot process know
exactly what is happening immediately after the "white square OS/2"
appears? Narrowing down the list of possible failing components is
the goal here.
One of my OS/2 systems must be pushing 20 years old and is starting to
show signs of hardware failure.
One of my OS/2 systems must be pushing 20 years old and is starting to
show signs of hardware failure. I'm faced with the choice of either
getting new, faster, more modern hardware and fighting with OS/2 >compatibility issues, or trying to repair the existing system, which
is still surprisingly capable despite its age. The trick to the
latter choice is to figure out what component is failing.
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