Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!ukma!rex!samsung!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!ohst-ag From: ohst-ag@garnet.berkeley.edu (Timothy Moy) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: FLOPPY disk problems Keywords: Message-ID: <1990Jul26.184003.13470@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 26 Jul 90 18:40:03 GMT References: <11270@j.cc.purdue.edu> <1990Jul26.051635.22374@cs.uoregon.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator;;;;ZU44) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 26 X-Local-Date: 26 Jul 90 11:40:03 PDT In article <1990Jul26.051635.22374@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes: >I've been experiencing a funny problem with Win3, and I'd like to know >if anyone else has had the same problem. If I access a floppy drive >from *any* application, and there is no disk inthe drive, Windows >comes back with a dialog box telling me that there is a problem with >the drive, and asks if it should cancel or retry. Regardless of which >button I press, windows crashes and reboots my computer. [Various details deleted] I discovered the same problem last night, right after installing ScreenPeace. My 286 hangs up (but does not re-boot on its own). I just talked to a friend who found a much more vicious variation on the same problem: the absence of a diskette in the floppy drive hung the system but also munged the root directory of his hard disk. After recovering (both his data and his composure), he un-installed ScreenPeace (he was using only the clock spx), and found that the problem went away. When you noticed this problem, was ScreenPeace running? I'm at my office now, and haven't had a chance to try any of this on my 286 yet. More later. BTW, I AM running the version of ScreenPeace recently posted at cica that supposedly fixes the clock.spx error. Also, I think ScreenPeace is (otherwise) a wonderful program. Timothy Moy ohst-ag@garnet.berkeley.edu