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- OSING200 - GATEWAY 2000 MACHINES and OS/2 COMPATIBILITY
- 10/19/94
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- GATEWAY 2000 MACHINES AND OS/2 COMPATIBILITY
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- Please Read Entire Document for Full Explanation of Procedures
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-
- This is a list of known problems that may appear on
- Gateway 2000 machines.
-
- 1. Country.Sys not found message on all Nomad "notebook" models.
- This is a problem with the BIOS on the Nomad machines.
- Nomad machines with Pheonix 1.02 BIOS need to be upgraded.
- The Gateway 2000 Tech support group expects IBM Support and
- Service to have you contact Gateway for this problem.
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- 2. Gateway machines with a 486 can potentially have DIVIDE
- UNDERFLOW errors. This problem is a bug on the 486 math
- coprocessor and is only be seen if you are running software
- that takes advantage of the coprocessor. The Rev E mother
- boards of 486 Gateway machines may exhibit this problem. If
- you are are having this problem, you can contact Gateway
- and upgrade to the Rev f version of the mother board.
- The Rev F board has a HW fix workaround for the coprocessor
- bug.
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- 3. Gateway machines that Trap 2 on startup or install could be
- one of two things.
-
- The first is that the Read Ahead Cache on the mother board
- could be bad. Gateway has seen several cases of this. The
- workaround for this problem is to disable the external
- caching. This can be done by pressing Ctl+Alt+Esc during
- POST to activate CMOS Setup. The real solution is to get
- another board from Gateway or let them fix the one the
- you have.
-
- The second thing that can cause the Trap 2 is bad memory.
- What consistently fixes the problem is locating the memory
- sim that is bad and replacing it. Occasionally, moving
- the sims around helps resolve the problem.
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- 4. Machine hangs or screen goes blank when you goe into a DOS
- session on Gateway 386 machines. This is a TSENG video chip
- set problem. Most of Gateway's 386 line has been shipped
- with the Diamond Speedstar video card that uses the TSENG
- chip set. Gateway asks that we work with you to try the
- VSVGA.SYS fix for the problem. Gatewau has the fix module
- for this problem are helping customers that call there first.
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