Re: System Upgrade Problems

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From: Scott A Wymer
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 00:00

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In article <3tjmkp$dnl@oznet03.ozemail.com.au>
           doliver@ozemail.com.au "David Oliver" writes:

> I have just read your tales of woe with regaed to installing os2.  It 
> didn't mean much to me untill you mentioned that the BIOS was an AWARD 
> BIOS.  I bought a P90 with AWARD BIOS toward the beginning of the year 
> and found a large number of compatibity problems.  I took it back to my 
> suppier and got it exchanged for a good American made board with AMI 
> BIOS.  Since then the number of problems I hear about with AWARD BIOS's 
> is getting greater.
> 
> If somebody askes me for advice now the first question I ask is the type 
> of BIOS.  It might be a coincidence, but the number of "weired" 
> compatibility faults I encounter have the AWARD BIOS.
> 
> 
>                             David Oliver
You should send info about this to the Good, Bad, and Ugly (GBU) hardware
list that is kept about compatability of hardware with OS2.  You can 
find it on the major OS2 ftp servers (hobbes, cdrom) its called GBU###.zip
where ### is its current version number.  I forget what dir its in it though.
 
-- 
Scott A Wymer     ***Scott@wymer.demon.co.uk***
***Be happy for you have been given 
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  LIFE and the TIME to live it ***

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From: Scott A Wymer <Scott@wymer.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: System Upgrade Problems
Date: 1995/07/08
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