On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> While I was experimenting with boot GUI=0 I did find I had the >>> famous "My computer IKN" problem with a hard lock up when I clicked the >>> IKN, and I haven't got a CD installed.
WHOA...!!! podner..!!! hmmm...well, sheeesh..!!!...I have MISSED something here. This was in the back of my mind, nagging me at a low level. See my next post, SUBJECT: WHOA..!!! CDROM IKN Yeah...I'm pretty numb...if what I think is happening. FIRST: Bastiaan, et al... You are running Arachne on a computer that has W9x installed, and you are using the DOS the under-lies that...?? And..you see a CDROM IKN on the "Accessable Drives" page, after clicking "Your Computer"....??? But...you do NOT have an actual CD-ROM drive in that computer..??? ...or...do you mean that you have no CD in an existing drive...?? hmmm....if either of these is true...then it is possible that Arachne is not locking up at all. What IS possible is that the underlying DOS is going out to access ALL the drives (to give you a roster/list of them) and getting hung there, when it cannot find that CD-ROM drive, or it has no CD in it. How so..??? Consider. Arachne does NOT determine/register/list or whatever, the components that are in your computer. Arachne only asks the OperatingSystem for ITS list. The OS then has to go around and collect a list to give to Arachne. Actually, it should already have that list, right after boot up. Now...if that CDROM IKN is shown in Arachne, then something IS telling Arachne that that drive IS there, even though there is not one installed, or it has no CD in it. That "something" telling Arachne about that CDROM drive has to be the W9x GUI. I do NOT run Arachne on w9x, but I have customers using w9x, and I have it on one of my boxes. I have found that s9x sometimes messes up its registry and had drivers loaded for nonexistent items, and duplicates, and ... and....all manner of other nasty things. It may be that w9x has a CD-ROM drive registered, which isn't realy there, or one which does not have a CD in it, which w9x knows how to ignore, but its underlying DOS 7.0 does NOT know how to ignore.... so...when you click "Your Computer"...Arachne asks the DOS for a list and DOS goes to find it...and gets into that rather long search that usually gives back an error "Drive A: not ready - abort, retry, fail" (but in this case it's the cdrom drive that's missing or not ready). .. This may be only a wild figment of my feeble imagination....but.. ..see what you think, and what you can find.... Maybe if you wait long enough (during the supposed lockup) the DOS will finally come back with that "Drive not ready" error message.. .....gregy -- This mail was sent by a user of Arachne - The Ultimate Internet Client
