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From: pabres13@pc.usl.edu (Joubert John V.)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: HIMEM.SYS woes
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Date: 15 Jul 90 17:41:25 GMT
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	I too had the Gene II motherboard in my Gateway, but I never gave
it the chance to fail running Lotus or Windows.  I was reading the tech
"pamphlet" (what a laugh!) that came with the board, and I saw the the board
had 2 bus speeds, 5Mhz and 12 Mhz.  It was supposed to be connected to the
turbo button, to toggle between the two speeds.  Well, as most people here
know, hardly anything works on a 12 Mhz bus, therefore I had to run my
video card, drive controller, mouse, I/O card, and modem all at 5 Mhz! This
was a totally ridiculous idea, running a 20 Mhz machine with a 5 Mhz bus!

	I called Gateway and had them ship me a new motherboard, they sent
the older Gene I (8 Mhz bus).  A few months later, I found that Win 386 was
getting "drive not ready" errors from the hard drives.  I called Gateway
(again :-( ), and they replaced the motherboard with a BT-3MM motherboard,
which I am quite happy with.  But gad, it took forever to get set up right!

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