[comp.windows.ms] HIMEM.sys woes - FIX for gateway 2000 owners w/Gene II mb

bill@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (William Tsai) (08/06/90)

I own a one-year old Gateway 2000 20 Mhz 386 and had problem running
Win3 in enhanced mode...  Gateway told me that it would cost me $250
to replace the mb...

There is a better way.  I called Hawk Computers, maker of Gene II mb,
and they told me that all it takes is a new PAL on the 8meg memory board,
and they will send it to me for free.

I received it a few days ago and pop it in - and it works!  I can run
application like normal people now!  I have plenty of memory and
'Unrecoverable Application Error' doesn't come up any more.

A small problem with DOS programs though...  The computer hangs
when I try to start a DOS program and occasionally gives me a scsi
device parity error...  Any ideas?  This is really not a big problem
since I don't plan to run DOS program under windows... they belong
to DesqView.

Hawk Computers' number is (408) 436-8999 if anybody need to get a hold
of them.

bill
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