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Article #83501Re: Gateway 2000 Computers
From: Dave Mato
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 00:00
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htheodore paul jr branham wrote: > > hmmm, > I just recently bought a 266 with the AGP and everything. Here's the > problems I've had so far (In less than a month) > > 1. Sent wrong computer > 2. Sent Replacement, UPS wanted to get back old computer and another COD > 3. Correct PC had a bad video card according to tech rep > 4. Sent replacement videio card, wrong one > 5. Sent correct one, still didn't work, said, oh maybe those beeps mean > bad motherboard > 6. Sent another Computer it worked so far > 7. Modem failed > 8. upon searching for problem of modem, found had bad partition > 9. Had to format drive and reinstall all software and take modem from > computer with bad motherboard (they have not picked it up yet) and put > it into new one. > 10. Customer Service sent wrong return labels, (expected me to pay > shipping for their mistake) > 11. Uh, not sure yet taking it one week at a time. > > So in my humble opinion: DON'T BUY GATEWAY, > oh yeah, you have to set up driver for soundcard to work in DOS > yourself. They never do that for some reason. > > Paul hmmm.that's really bizzare. I bought the same system as you and mine works great, except for a few minor problems (or rather options that I prefer) that i changed in about five minutes worth of time. -E
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From: Dave Mato <dm...@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 Computers Date: 1997/10/20 Message-ID: <344BA545.4CD@hotmail.com> X-Deja-AN: 282055478 References: <343FC4F0.F56D0563@pitnet.net> <34478F48.27D4@cis.ohio-state.edu> Organization: American National Red Cross Reply-To: dm...@hotmail.com Newsgroups: rec.autos.simulators,rec.games.empire,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports,alt.games.dark-forces,alt.games.doom.newplayers,alt.games.kali,alt.games.quake2,alt.games.ultima.dragons,alt.games.ultima-online,alt.games.upcoming-3d,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit