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From: price@chakra.unl.edu (Chad Price)
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Subject: Re: zenith/wp 5.1 incompatibility
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Date: 6 Dec 90 05:10:46 GMT
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In <00940A14.1E1B33E0@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU> arussell@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Anne Russell) writes:

>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.

I strongly recommend updating to the most recent release of Word Perfect
(8-20-90??) The earlier versions had some problems. Additionally, early verison
of EMS drivers are mostly not truely 4.0 compliant. Tell Word Perfect that you
have an earlier EMS driver (/32 parameter I think). Beyind that, the only
machine I've seen with real problems with WP 5.1 is my old Z-158, and its so
old it is not worth running all of the hardware tests to see if I have any
intermittant memory problems or similar. My Z-386/16 has absolutely no problem
with WP 5.1. I do hawoever have an updated ROM because the older ROMS were
incompatible with the Zenith Memory Cache card.

After trying the software solutions, then suspect the hardware.

chad price
price@fergvax.unl.edu