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- From: malhotra@gemed (Deepak Malhotra)
- Subject: Problems w/ GTWY 2000 486SX
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.154206.15936@mr.med.ge.com>
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- Organization: GE Medical Systems, Milwaukee, WI
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 15:42:06 GMT
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- I recently purchased a Gateway 2000 486SX-33 Local Bus system. I also got
- a Telepath modem/fax card with it. I would appreciate any help with the following
- problems I have encountered so far -
- 1) The computer just freezes (hangs) once in a while. It has happened
- while playing games under Windows 3.1, a few times while using floppy drives and
- the modem with the QModem software (under MS-DOS). The only thing I can do after
- that is reboot. 2) While using MS Word for Windows 2.1, the program crashed and I
- was at the DOS prompt. There were no error messages. This happened 5-6 times
- within a few minutes. I was using a letter template.
- I ran diagnostics (QAPlus) to test my hardware, specifically RAM, Hard Disk, CPU
- and floppy drives. All tests passed. Does this mean I have software bugs?
- This is my first PC and I am not sure if the problems I have seen are common with
- PCs. Any help will be highly appreciated. I tried calling Gateway, but their
- phones are always busy.
- Thanks.
-