Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!csus.edu!ucdavis!csusac!csuchico.edu!ARUSSELL@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU From: arussell@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Anne Russell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith Subject: zenith/wp 5.1 incompatibility Message-ID: <00940A14.1E1B33E0@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU> Date: 3 Dec 90 18:43:27 GMT Sender: news@ecst.csuchico.edu (USENET) Reply-To: arussell@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Anne Russell) Organization: California State University, Chico Lines: 26 I have a 286 Z-248, 640 K RAM, 2 MB expanded memory (Intel expansion board), 80 MB HD (Seagate). I ran resident PC-Cache, WP Shell. I had no problems at all until I installed WP 5.1 last January. Since then I I have had disastrous corruptions (both documents and directories) and even a crash. Our tech shop has run numerous diagnostics and can finding nothing wrong with the hardware. I have disabled everything, even the memory board. All the corrupt documents are WP documents. I have also had cross-linking occur (this destroyed five subdirectories and somehow also involved PC Tools). The corrupt documents displayed a numbre of symptoms - freezing, strange control codes replacing text, end of document markers disappearing (so the document looped), documents truncated or corrupting in the middle somewhere. WordPerfect would not admit to any "official" problems, but did mention they had received some incompatibility reports with Zeniths. After the last big crash, we low-level formatted the HD, reformatted, and I reinstalled everything. Still some problems, but mostly freezing. I finally gave up and am awaiting a 386/25 Gateway 2000, with 4 MB RAM, 80 MB HD, true VGA monitor (1024 x 728), 2 drives, mouse - all for only $2500!! Anyone heard about similar problems? I suppose this is the wrong group, but has anyone had experience with Gateway? The university I work for has a contract with Zenith and there are lots of them around. --------------------------- Anne Russell, OA Support CSU, Chico, California arussell@oavax.csuchico.edu