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Re: 755cx OS upgrade (or I H8 EZ SERV)
On Tue, 19 Aug 1997 15:39:35 -0500, jeff kiyoi wrote:
>Hi all. Well, the EZ Serve techs and I are on a first name basis now.
>This is
>my third time in for service in the last month. By my counts, my
>machine has
>been looked at by between seven and twelve different technicians at EZ
>serv including two separate "quality" assurance teams. I have had the
>system board and the processor card replaced, and been told on at least
>six separate occasions that my mouse and crash problems are all due to
>bad
>software. Finally, on the third time its been in, after registering
>complaints
>twice, I was able to have the head tech on 755 models check out my
>machine
>and lo and behold- its a bad hard drive! So my troubles are over,
>right?
>No. It seems that IBM refuses to do anything but load my new drive with
>
>factory specs, meaning win 3.1 and os/2. While I'm sure those are great
>
>systems, I don'town a single piece of hardware or software that isn't
>Win95 specific. So now I need to upgrade to Win95 from 3.1. I have
>never done this before, but remember hearing horror stories about
>conflicts and such.Can anyone with experience with this (I seem to
>remember from a long time ago someone named "Hitchhiker") drop me
>a line with any suggestions that might make this a little smother.
>
>Regards, Jeff
>elvislives@mindspring.com
>
>
>
I'd rather keep OS/2, but just delete Windows 3.1, if you wish. BTW,
you can even have PC-DOS 6.3/Win 3.1, OS/2 Warp, and Win95 on the
same partition and still boot from each. I had that on my server before,
but I only had 95 on for < 1 week because I preferred Linux and OS/2.
Paul