Northern Computers

[robert]

Robert wrote,
I thought I would tell the group of some problems that I had with northern
computer. At this time northern does not have an operable system using
winpac 2.0 on windows xp service pack 2. They admit to the problem and say
a fix is in the works. Notice they haven't emailed any warning that there
is a problem to the dealer base. That was 2 months ago. The problem of when
I first encountered this major problem was when a customers hard drive
failed. I went to the local computer store and bought a full version of XP
pro (customers IT dept. lost original copy of xp) The copy had xp pro
service pack 2. It won't work with winpac. So pray that if you have any
customers out there with a northern system installed that the harddrive
doesn't fail. Otherwise you will have to buy an earlier version someplace.
It doesn't seem that Northern is going to get their act together any time
soon.

 

[Frank Olson]

Robert wrote,
I thought I would tell the group of some problems that I had with northern
computer. At this time northern does not have an operable system using
winpac 2.0 on windows xp service pack 2. They admit to the problem and
say a fix is in the works. Notice they haven't emailed any warning that
there is a problem to the dealer base. That was 2 months ago. The problem
of when I first encountered this major problem was when a customers hard
drive failed. I went to the local computer store and bought a full
version of XP pro (customers IT dept. lost original copy of xp) The copy
had xp pro service pack 2. It won't work with winpac. So pray that if you
have any customers out there with a northern system installed that the
harddrive doesn't fail. Otherwise you will have to buy an earlier version
someplace. It doesn't seem that Northern is going to get their act
together any time soon.

It's pretty easy to avoid this problem... Ensure your customer's computers
that are running the software are also running Windows 98SE.

 

[Bob La Londe]

There are still some small OEMs that are producing legal serial numbers for
and copies of 98SE.

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[G. Morgan]

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It's pretty easy to avoid this problem... Ensure your customer's computers
that are running the software are also running Windows 98SE.

Win2K is preferable.

 

[jackcsg]

or...if you stay away from it entirely, you won't be exposed to the POS it
is, was, has been, and always will be. Northern is JUNK, period.

 

[petem]

there was issue with win2k ans winpak 2.0 too..

same for winpak pro..

I am certified for prowatch and can tell you that this company sux big
time..

but they do have some really good tech support here in canada...but dont
even think to have some simple help from there 1-800 number in the state..

 

[petem]

Robert wrote,
I thought I would tell the group of some problems that I had with northern
computer. At this time northern does not have an operable system using
winpac 2.0 on windows xp service pack 2. They admit to the problem and
say a fix is in the works. Notice they haven't emailed any warning that
there is a problem to the dealer base. That was 2 months ago. The problem
of when I first encountered this major problem was when a customers hard
drive failed. I went to the local computer store and bought a full
version of XP pro (customers IT dept. lost original copy of xp) The copy
had xp pro service pack 2. It won't work with winpac. So pray that if you
have any customers out there with a northern system installed that the
harddrive doesn't fail. Otherwise you will have to buy an earlier version
someplace. It doesn't seem that Northern is going to get their act
together any time soon.

thats just normal for NCI..

they cant move there ass fast enough..its too big..