CompuServe Messages

Don, Luckily the system is under a year old and therefore still under warranty. I finally got through to them tonight and I'm getting a new motherboard, cache ram, CPU, and full ram free of charge (glad I got all my memory from gateway!). It'll be a week or so until I get the stuff, and until then, my pessimistic little mind will be constantly be telling me "it still won't work…it still won't work…" BTW, the gateway tech guy said that according to my battery/clock problem, it sounded as though the system bios ,for some reason, is running off battery power even when the system is on. If 3ds, while rendering, is making any bios calls and hits a slight slur in battery power (its probably almost drained), could pharlap choke? Gary or Gus? Another symtom I noticed while trying to track this down was that sometimes when rendering a gif or flic, the 256 color converting process after each frame would slow too a crawl, one flic was 25 sec per frame just to convert to 256. When it would start doing this, a crash would shortly follow. I think I'll pick up a new battery just to check this (it would explain why this whole problem just now decided to appear, if the battery is just now starting to run low). David