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09-06-2008
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| | Boot screen contents not showing up... I have noted a strange behaviour in VPC: Sometrimes when I start a guest (XP-Pro) the initial boot screen is completely black with no text and then after a while the Windows XP startup screen appears with the progress bar. The really strange thing is that while the main window does not shopw any text I can see in the thumbnailo in VPC console that it displays text that changes while the main window is empty! Why is it so that the main windows does not show anything while the thumbnail does? -- Bo Berglund (Sweden) |
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09-06-2008
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| | Re: Boot screen contents not showing up... On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:56:59 +0200, in microsoft.public.virtualpc, Bo Berglund <boberglund@xxxxxx>, wrote Quote: >I have noted a strange behaviour in VPC: >Sometrimes when I start a guest (XP-Pro) the initial boot screen is >completely black with no text and then after a while the Windows XP >startup screen appears with the progress bar. >The really strange thing is that while the main window does not shopw >any text I can see in the thumbnailo in VPC console that it displays >text that changes while the main window is empty! > >Why is it so that the main windows does not show anything while the >thumbnail does? get the BIOS display portion at boot? The implication is that screen display has been set of 'OFF' and I wonder how that could be this early in the game unless there is a display definition in the BIOS -- that is then overridden by Windows........... Observation says that those thumbnails are the result of display output, or more precisely, computer output which could actually bypass any screen output........... FACE |
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09-06-2008
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| | Re: Boot screen contents not showing up... On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:44:19 -0400, FACE <AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:26:18 -0400, in microsoft.public.virtualpc, FACE ><AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxx>, wrote > Quote: >>On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:56:59 +0200, in microsoft.public.virtualpc, Bo >>Berglund <boberglund@xxxxxx>, wrote >> Quote: >>>I have noted a strange behaviour in VPC: >>>Sometrimes when I start a guest (XP-Pro) the initial boot screen is >>>completely black with no text and then after a while the Windows XP >>>startup screen appears with the progress bar. >>>The really strange thing is that while the main window does not shopw >>>any text I can see in the thumbnailo in VPC console that it displays >>>text that changes while the main window is empty! >>> >>>Why is it so that the main windows does not show anything while the >>>thumbnail does? >>This is a really interesting one. So you are saying that you do not even >>get the BIOS display portion at boot? >> >>The implication is that screen display has been set of 'OFF' and I wonder >>how that could be this early in the game unless there is a display >>definition in the BIOS -- that is then overridden by Windows........... >> >>Observation says that those thumbnails are the result of display output, >>or more precisely, computer output which could actually bypass any screen >>output........... >> >I just looked at the BIOS of a DOS 6.22 VM. Go into the BIOS and make >sure that "Quiet Boot" is disabled. That is on a subscreen from "Advanced >-->Boot Settings Configuration.". > a black screen???? The console thumbnail resolution is too small to enable use of that as a display. Really strange. However, my guest comes up afterwards and operates even though I feel that it is "flakey" in the responses. Basically I can do some tasks normally, but then all of a sudden it gets unresponsive for about 5 seconds or so and then it comes back. The guest and host are both XP-Pro SP2. I have given the guest 512 Mb RAM out of the 2 Gb I have on the host. No other guests are running. And I am using VPC2004SP1 because this guest MUST communicate over the COM1 serial port and this does not work in VPC2007. -- Bo Berglund (Sweden) |
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09-06-2008
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| | Re: Boot screen contents not showing up... On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:05:17 +0200, in microsoft.public.virtualpc, Bo Berglund <boberglund@xxxxxx>, wrote Quote: >On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:44:19 -0400, FACE <AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxx> >wrote: > Quote: >>On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:26:18 -0400, in microsoft.public.virtualpc, FACE >><AFaceInTheCrowd@xxxxxx>, wrote >> Quote: >>>On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:56:59 +0200, in microsoft.public.virtualpc, Bo >>>Berglund <boberglund@xxxxxx>, wrote >>> >>>>I have noted a strange behaviour in VPC: >>>>Sometrimes when I start a guest (XP-Pro) the initial boot screen is >>>>completely black with no text and then after a while the Windows XP >>>>startup screen appears with the progress bar. >>>>The really strange thing is that while the main window does not shopw >>>>any text I can see in the thumbnailo in VPC console that it displays >>>>text that changes while the main window is empty! >>>> >>>>Why is it so that the main windows does not show anything while the >>>>thumbnail does? >>> >>>This is a really interesting one. So you are saying that you do not even >>>get the BIOS display portion at boot? >>> >>>The implication is that screen display has been set of 'OFF' and I wonder >>>how that could be this early in the game unless there is a display >>>definition in the BIOS -- that is then overridden by Windows........... >>> >>>Observation says that those thumbnails are the result of display output, >>>or more precisely, computer output which could actually bypass any screen >>>output........... >>> >>I just looked at the BIOS of a DOS 6.22 VM. Go into the BIOS and make >>sure that "Quiet Boot" is disabled. That is on a subscreen from "Advanced >>-->Boot Settings Configuration.". >> >OK, but how can I get into the BIOS of the guest when all there is is >a black screen???? The console thumbnail resolution is too small to >enable use of that as a display. >Really strange. >However, my guest comes up afterwards and operates even though I feel >that it is "flakey" in the responses. Basically I can do some tasks >normally, but then all of a sudden it gets unresponsive for about 5 >seconds or so and then it comes back. >The guest and host are both XP-Pro SP2. I have given the guest 512 Mb >RAM out of the 2 Gb I have on the host. No other guests are running. > >And I am using VPC2004SP1 because this guest MUST communicate over the >COM1 serial port and this does not work in VPC2007. right-alt(hostkey) & delete. ******* I just moved to an XP SP2 machine and did that...........the BIOS is the same. Read the explanation of quiet boot disabled/enabled in the rightmost box of that subscreen. It seems to explain it, if the first OEM logo is WINDOWS. FACE |
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