bruce@infopls.chi.il.us (Bruce Collins) (02/12/91)
I have used Windows 3.0 extensively at work on a 25 Mhz 386 from Gateway 2000. Also, I use the Deskjet Plus printer with no problems. I would look further at your set up before suspecting a hardware incompatibility.
neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) (02/13/91)
System Configuration: Gateway 2000 386 Dos 4.01 150 MEG Hard Drive (C/D partitions) Win 3.0 Lantastic Network Errors: After reformatting the hard disk (3) times from drive errors, I have some questions concerning the stability of windows 3.0, dos4.01 and if or if not I should run share.exe? I continue to receive sector not found and the "abort retry fail" errors after the system runs for a day. I have reformated the disk one last time, and have not installed windows as of yet. Should I use a different dos version? Should I load share? -- Neil Greene --- University of Kentucky Mathmatics and Sciences University of Kentucky Computing Center neil@s.ms.uky.edu & neil@graphlab.cc.uky.edu (NeXT Attachments)
dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (02/14/91)
In article <neil.666457148@s.ms.uky.edu> neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) writes: >System Configuration: Gateway 2000 386 > Dos 4.01 > 150 MEG Hard Drive (C/D partitions) > Win 3.0 > Lantastic Network > >Errors: After reformatting the hard disk (3) times from drive errors, I have >some questions concerning the stability of windows 3.0, dos4.01 and if or if >not I should run share.exe? > >I continue to receive sector not found and the "abort retry fail" errors after >the system runs for a day. I have reformated the disk one last time, and have >not installed windows as of yet. Should I use a different dos version? >Should I load share? I've used a number of Gateway 2000 machines with DOS 4.01 and Windows 3.0. Not one problem. So using DOS 4.01 should be fine. I've heard that SHARE can cause problems. I don't use it with no apparent ill-effects. With problems like yours, I usually resort to SPINRITE. I burn-in a disk for 24-48 hours in the extreme-mode of SPINRITE. If still get problems or lots of bad sectors after SPINRITE, get Gateway to give you a new drive and controller. Cheers, Dan Ts'o 212-570-7671 Dept. Neurobiology dan@rna.rockefeller.edu Rockefeller Univ. ...phri!rna!dan 1230 York Ave. tso@rockvax.bitnet NY, NY 10021