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From: kabra437@pallas.athenanet.com (Ken Abrams)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0 on PS/2 Mod 70 crashes.
Message-ID: <1008@pallas.athenanet.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 20:30:24 GMT
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In article <796@saxony.pa.reuter.COM> dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett) writes:
>
>     There was a report some time back (2-3 months) that IBM had changed the
>PS/2 70 motherboard design, and that Windows 3.0 does not work with the new
>motherboard.  Neither Microsoft nor IBM expected a quick fix; perhaps 3.1
>will address the problem.
>                                                     Dave

Thanks to all who responded with posts and mail.  So far, there has been
no solid information but there have been several interesting posibilities.
My dealer finally called back after I left the original post.  They said
that IBM admitted to a "bad batch" of 60M IDE drives used in PS/2s.
They added that IBM would NOT indicate how widespread the problem was.

For the moment I will believe the dealer since they are replacing the
(apparently) damaged drives at no cost.  It is possible that the damage
always showed up in the Windows directory because it was being used the
most.  The other 7 machines have been "burning in" with Windows running
for about a week now with no ill effects.  I have my fingers crossed.

I wonder if the 60M drives are re-conditioned from the original AT?
(No flames, please.  Just kidding!)

I will post additional follow-ups if anything significant shows up.



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