zenith/wp 5.1 incompatibility

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From: Anne Russell
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 1990 18:43

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I have a 286 Z-248, 640 K RAM, 2 MB expanded memory (Intel expansion board),
80 MB HD (Seagate).  I ran resident PC-Cache, WP Shell.  I had no problems
at all until I installed WP 5.1 last January.  Since then I I have had 
disastrous corruptions (both documents and directories) and even a crash.
Our tech shop has run numerous diagnostics and can finding nothing wrong
with the hardware.  I have disabled everything, even the memory board. 
All the corrupt documents are WP documents.  I have also had cross-linking
occur (this destroyed five subdirectories and somehow also involved PC Tools).
The corrupt documents displayed a numbre of symptoms - freezing, strange
control codes replacing text, end of document markers disappearing (so the
document looped), documents truncated or corrupting in the middle somewhere.
WordPerfect would not admit to any "official" problems, but did mention
they had received some incompatibility reports with Zeniths.  After the last
big crash, we low-level formatted the HD, reformatted, and I reinstalled
everything.  Still some problems, but mostly freezing.  I finally gave up
and am awaiting a 386/25 Gateway 2000, with 4 MB RAM, 80 MB HD, true VGA
monitor (1024 x 728), 2 drives, mouse  - all for only $2500!!

Anyone heard about similar problems?  I suppose this is the wrong group,
but has anyone had experience with Gateway?  The university I work for
has a contract with Zenith and there are lots of them around. 

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Anne Russell, OA Support
CSU, Chico, California
arussell@oavax.csuchico.edu

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Subject: zenith/wp 5.1 incompatibility
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Date: 3 Dec 90 18:43:27 GMT
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