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Re: [755 CDV] What is PF5 worth ?
On Sat, 14 Feb 1998 20:30:09 GMT+1, Francois Hurter wrote:
>Hi,
>Once upon a time I had a 755 CDV with Warp 4 and FP1 installed and the things went really good and I
>could work with my system.
>After having read that I should take care of the 2k problem, I upgraded to FP5.
>Since then, I have
>- COM problems
>- sometimes, my system freezes at boot time
>- some strange things can happen on the display (modem window redraws in an "interesting manner")
>- and the WINOS2 system is really unusable; for example, I could lauch a seamless session with the
>Organizer and work quite good; now when I'm trying to click in a notepad page of the Organizer, the
>mouse icon blinks for a while and after that, the system proudly informs me that it made a stack
>error in a KRNL386 (or so....) library and invites me to close the Orgnanizer; after that I can no
>more lauch the Organizer nor can I launch another Lotus app nor can I launch the Program
>Manager...and Lotus has still not released the ghostly SmartSuite for OS/2 (I mean not the beta one
>that made your system unusable for the future because of the special FP you need)
>And by now, who else can help me ?
>Shall I reinstall FP5 again ?
>Is this what IBM calls an upgrade ?
>Is FP5 so bad or did I made some big mistake when upgrading ?
>Nice day to all of you
Hmmm, the most I've had was video problems on my 701.
FP6 should be comming out soon I hear, including a new driver for APM 1.2!
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