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- SOFTWARE SUPPORT
-
- DeskTop Advisor has been designed to require a minimum amount of
- technical support. If you have any questions about the product, you
- can often answer them yourself by accessing the on-line user manual
- or by reading the printed manual. If you cannot answer your questions
- by using these resources, you can contact us in several ways: via
- mail, telephone, or CompuServe.
-
- Technical support is included with the purchase price for ninety
- (90) days after date of registration. We will answer your
- questions and fix serious bugs that are identified during this
- time. For problems involving a specific hardware or software
- environment or feature, Ivden may choose not to modify the program.
-
- In this case, if the problem is reported within the ninety-day
- period, we will offer to refund your purchase price.
-
- If you contact us by mail, please explain the problem and
- circumstances surrounding it in as much detail as possible. If
- you have a problem with a knowledge base you are developing, send
- us the files on a diskette. Mail these items to the address in the
- front of the manual.
-
- If you contact us by telephone at (215) 328-1145 and we are not
- present to answer, please leave as detailed a question or problem
- description as possible, as well as your name, phone number, and
- registration number. Our answering machine is accessible 24 hours a
- day. We will contact you within a day providing you leave us phone
- numbers where you can be reached at various times during the day.
- If you have access to CompuServe, you can contact us via CompuServe
- Mail at 71221,3602. Please leave as detailed a message as possible.
- We will answer your message within a day.
-
- We will provide support after this period in one of two ways. You
- can purchase an 'extended support' plan. This will provide you with
- unlimited technical support calls for one (1) year, as well as
- providing you with minor updates that occur during that period.
- The cost for the 'extended support' plan is currently $50.00. It is
- renewable and may be paid for by personal check, company check or
- money order. At this time we do not accept credit cards.
-
- If you choose not to purchase an 'extended support' plan, we will
- provide technical support at an hourly rate, currently $50.00.
-
- Before calling for customer support, please make sure that you have
- followed the steps on the "pre-call checklist" below. Since you are
- most familiar with your knowledge base, you can better diagnose
- your own problems by following these steps.
-
-
- PRE-CALL CHECKLIST FOR CUSTOMER SUPPORT
-
- 1. If you are having difficulty understanding the software, have
- you read the user manual?
-
- 2. If you are not sure how to perform a function or use a feature,
- have you read the user manual and/or used the on-line
- documentation?
-
- 3. If there seems to be a problem with the software, have you been
- able to reproduce the problem? Do you know what sequence of
- operations causes it?
-
- 4. If the software displayed an error message, did you write down
- the exact message?
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- 5. You should be familiar with the hardware configuration you are
- using. We may need to know the brand/model of your computer and
- it's BIOS, the total amount of conventional, extended, and
- expanded memory available when you started DeskTop Advisor, the
- type of video adapter(s) you have in your system, the brand/model
- and options of your printer, and the operating system version.
-
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- If you are running DeskTop Advisor on a network, we need to know
- the installed network hardware and software. Other software in
- use, such as memory-resident programs and device drivers, may be
- important.
-