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From: billp@hplsla.HP.COM (Bill Pritchard)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Blank Screen for 25 sec?
Message-ID: <3130018@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Jul 90 03:05:49 GMT
References: <292600015@trsvax>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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Mark Donnell writes:
>But while in windows, the screen stays black.
>A real pretty black, but black nevertheless.
>It has stayed there for quite some time (minutes, at least).
>A rather boring window interface, I might say.

Something similar happened to me with a Gatway 2000 and a 20MHz 386 CPU
board (a BTMxx).  My particular problem turned out to be a trackball driver 
that was not compatible with Windows 3.0.  BUT... in researching this, I was
told by Gateway that there is a bad datecode on the i386 processor which
gives those exact symptoms (sorry I don't know which dates or serial #'s).
Gateway would have replaced the processor at no charge, perhaps your
supplier would do the same--or at least check it out.

Good Luck!

Bill Pritchard