Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!gatech!udel!udccvax1!bill From: bill@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (William Tsai) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Gateway Summary: Gateway 2000... the problem... Keywords: Gateway 2000, Gateway Message-ID: <4016@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Date: 19 Jul 89 19:55:15 GMT References: <111700122@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <316@arnor.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (William Tsai) Followup-To: bill@vax1.acs.udel.edu Distribution: usa Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 33 In article <316@arnor.UUCP> uri@arnor.UUCP (Uri Blumenthal) writes: >From article <111700122@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, by mms00786@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu: >>Their 386 machines are bad; .... >>... they are not 100% compatible. For example, you cannot put a Paradise VGA >>card in it. It will *not* run Windows/386. > >It's all VERY STRANGE for me. Are you trying to convince me, that MY 386 >GATEWAY with Paradise VGA 16+ and UNIX doesn't work? So what's all those >things I see on my screen every day, mirag, maya? I testify that I'm using >the machine, being quite sober and sane. Dunno about 386/Windows, though. >UNIX with VGA driver and X-Windows is quite enough for me (so far). > Now everybody is giving different opinions to my Gateway 2000. Let's see, there must be some reason. MOTHERBOARD!! Wouldn't you think that they use different motherboards at different times?? Personally I have a Gene II (or something like that) mother board with Orchid VGA card. I also have 4 megs of ram, but they are all 1 meg bit chips, *NOT* as somebody said 265 + 64 etc. I have not experience too much problem, but one thing I noticed. It would not run Compaq OS/2 (DELL and other clones ran it fine.) Gateway tech support people are going to call me back and I am going to ask them that if they did indeed use a better mother board. If they did, I will make dame sure they will send me a new one. By the way, the machine is called GATEWAY 2000, not just Gateway. -- Bill Tsai University of Delaware CIS ARPA: bill@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (302) 738-1716 " The computer doesn't hate everybody - just you... "