arussell@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Anne Russell) (12/07/90)
I just purchased (actually, the university did) a Gateway 200 386/25, 4 MB RAM, 80 MB HD. Any reports, good or bad, about their machines and technical support? --------------------------- Anne Russell, OA Support CSU, Chico, California arussell@oavax.csuchico.edu
tdtyl@hubcap.clemson.edu (theodore d taylor) (12/11/90)
From article <00940C6D.1B568280@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU>, by arussell@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU (Anne Russell): > I just purchased (actually, the university did) a Gateway 200 386/25, 4 MB > RAM, 80 MB HD. Any reports, good or bad, about their machines and technical > support? > --------------------------- > Anne Russell, OA Support > CSU, Chico, California > arussell@oavax.csuchico.edu I've purchased a Gateway 2000 386/20 with a similar configuration. I'vebeen quite impressed with my purchase with one exception: occasionally I get a HDD failure on startup. A restart generally takes care of the problem. The technical support is great. They are busy, however, and I have oc- casionally had to call back or wait until I can get technical help on the line. I purchased DOS 4.01 with my machine. Some of my software gets 'con- fused' by the 80 MB HD which is configured with just one partition. As an example, PC-Write gives the option of backing up a file before continuing with writing/editing the file. If I use this option, PC-Write comes back with: 'Something wrong with Drive C:...' The file has been backed up however. I'd be interested if others have had any similar experience. T. D. Taylor Clemson University