From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Sun Jul 15 2001 - 15:50:58 EDT
try one or the other..
pin down WHICH app is killing the machine..
for dual boot, try some copy utilities and see if you can have both DOS and
W2k preload..
but why not put the preload on the HDD, then create an additional partition
for DOS with PQ Magic or the like..
hmm.. i'll think on this..
i may try a couple of ideas since i have some A20m's to get ready for sale
and i'll be applying the W2k preload to them..
i have had no problem with roxio EZ CD on my A21p with W2k..
the A21p is running WinXP very nicely on a 48gig drive..
Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart F. Biggar" <Stuart.Biggar_at_opt-sci.arizona.edu>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Cc: <Stuart.Biggar_at_opt-sci.arizona.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 2:34 PM
Subject: Blue screen with Win2000/SP2 on A21p with removable media, recovery
CD ?
> I recently installed Vmware for Win2000 and the Roxio Easy CD creator
> 5 on my A21p (I have one of the IBM CD-R/RW drives (Matsushita UJDA310V).
> I have a HTU model which came with Win2000. 384 MB RAM, Win2000 SP2
> added and current version drivers from the IBM web site.
>
> After that I have had intermittent Bluescreen crashes (with reboot) when:
>
> 1) plug in a 128 MB CF card (in ATA adapter), stop it, remove it. A
> reinsertion of the card/adapter triggers a blue screen. Card is used
> to transfer data from field computers and photos from a digital camera.
>
> 2) when off, remove the CD-R/RW drive, put a 2nd 32 GB HD in the
> ultrabay (a single large partition formatted with UNIX UFS), boot
> Win2000. It blue screens before I can log in.
>
> Both of the above are repeatable and the problems go away when
> I remove both programs. I haven't tried to figure out which one
> causes the problem. (I can change CD/disk and write CDs using
> UNIX without problems and get both Joliet and RockRidge onto
> the same CD so I don't really need Easy CD creator.)
>
> Oh well, I was using an eval copy of Vmware and I can use Easy CD
> on a desktop.
>
> Anyone else had such problems with either product and know which
> one to blame?
>
> I was going to try Vmware as I need to run a DOS program which
> crashes Win2000 on exit. I think the real solution is to put
> a FAT partition onto a disk and boot native DOS. Anyone know
> how to make the recovery CD do anything other than format the
> HD as FAT32 and then use then entire 32 GB for Win2000? Or
> do I need to get a real Win2000 CD and install DOS in a FAT
> partition and then install Win2000 from a retail CD and then
> add all the appropriate A21p drivers?
>
> One other question - is NTFS a good/better choice of format
> for a Win2000 notebook install than the FAT32 that the
> recovery CD/preload configuration comes with? Would it
> be more reliable/less likely to experience corruption with
> crashes?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stuart
>
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