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From: pcb@cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs)
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Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 on PS/2 Mod 70 crashes.
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Date: 27 Feb 91 16:49:18 GMT
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In article <1000@pallas.athenanet.com> kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams) writes:
>
>I have now had 2 of our new PS/2 model 70 machines with 60M IDE drives
>crash and trash the hard disk.  Both times it happened, Windows 3.0
>was running and nothing fancy was going on.  The first one went back
>to the dealer since this situation causes the drive to fail the
>...

I have ps/2 70s and 80s that periodically flake out with win3 but no
serious disk crashes yet.

I talked with someone at microsoft in the winword technical support group
and he said quote:
   'some of our biggest problems are on the PS/2 Model 70' unquote.

hmmmm....is the rift between MS and IBM that bad? just a joke..go blue

Anyway, my symptoms are random system crashes including UAE, C:\ and freeze.
I am not going to pull boards and change settings any longer.  I have done
that several times.  I also cannot reproduce the errors on demand.  It
appears to be either memory, bios, or MCA incompatiblities from win3.

anyway...