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SYMPTOMSWhen you attempt to suspend a computer running Windows 98 Second Edition, the computer may stop responding (hang). CAUSEThe name of the swapfile used by Windows 98 can be changed by adding a PagingFile= line to the 386Enh section of the System.ini file. If the path specified for the swapfile includes a lowercase drive letter, it can cause Windows 98 Second Edition to occasionally hang during a suspend. RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, change the lowercase drive letter specified for the swapfile path in the System.ini file to uppercase. To do this, follow these steps:
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. MORE INFORMATION
The I/O subsystem driver (IOS) in Windows 98 (Ios.vxd) attempts to determine the paging device so it can mark it as a device that cannot be powered off until interrupts have been disabled. IOS does this by retrieving the path for the swapfile, stripping out the drive letter from this string, and subtracting the ASCII value for an uppercase letter "A," to determine the drive number. It assumes the drive letter is always specified using an uppercase letter, and does not convert lowercase drive letters to uppercase before subtracting to determine the drive number. Additional query words:
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