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From: ferris@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Richard T. Ferris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 486/33
Summary: Disable turbo switch
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Date: 17 Jun 91 11:59:11 GMT
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In article <44717@netnews.upenn.edu> ferris@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Richard T. Ferris) writes:
>I recently bought the Gateway 486/33 (Micronics motherboard) and I
>seem to be having difficulty accessing the floppy disk drives when I
>am working in Windows 3.0 .  It happens when trying to install print
>drivers using the printer setup feature in Windows and when I shell
>out of Windows using the Dos feature and then try to access the
>floppies.  Anyone have any idea why and what can be done about it?
>Thanks for the info.
>

Thanks to those who responded to this posting.  I got a message from
someone on Gateway's Compuserve Forum which said, strange as this may
sound, that I had to be sure the turbo switch was disabled via the
CMOS setup in order to avoid this problem.  I changed the setting and
now everything is fine.  Except that the machine only works in high
speed mode and pushing the turbo switch has no effect.  Oh well,
better that it requires high speed rather than slow speed.

--RF
Richard Ferris
ferris@grad1.cis.upenn.edu