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From: trung@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Trung Tran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
Date: 8 Jan 93 16:02:36 GMT
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.

Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb) writes:

>> The Golden Gryphon writes:
>>
>> Msg-ID: <1993Jan05.132239.3881@openage.openage.com>
>> Posted: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 13:22:3
>>
>> Org.  : Open Age, Inc.
>>
>> rubin@procon.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:
>>
>>
>> >I have been fooling around with a new motherboard
>> >and some disks and get the following message when
>> >I try to boot a 340mb IDE drive
>>
>> >NO ROM BASIC
>> >SYSTEM HALTED
>>
>> You may not have the boot partition active.  Hookup the drive and run fdisk
>> off
>> floppy, and check the partition status.
>> --
>> The Golden Gryphon                              gryphon@openage.COM
>> "Mad Scientists seeks mindless brawny assistants, good pay, quiet
>> location."
>> "They're not ghosts,  they're metaphysically challenged." - Me
>> Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area

>I had this message pop up regularly after about 3 years' of almost
>round-the-clock usage of a Taiwanese clone computer.  My dealer said
>indicated a motherboard problem.  I suspected my system was overheating from
>too much use, and since I began turning it off a few hours a day to let it
>cool, the problem has disappeared.  In any case, the problem certainly was
>not related to anything having to do with my boot partition or hard disk, at
>least not with my system.

Well, I just saw this on my 486-50 last night.  I'm not really sure about
the heat-related theory.  It happened to me when I just got home from work.
I turned on the PC and there it was.  After a cold reboot, it disappeared.
I'm pretty sure this was the first time I saw it.  Even if it was
heat-related, I installed a CPU cooler (a small fan mounted on a heat-sink)
for my 486 to prevent it from getting fried.

Anyhow, anyone else has any comment?

-- 
Trung Tran	(408) 924-5106
trung@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU
Math & Computer Science Dept.
San Jose State University
From: gksmith@mcl.cc.utexas.edu (Glenn K. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: videospigot for windows
Keywords: multimedia frame grabber svga capture
Date: 10 Jan 93 18:42:12 GMT
Organization: University of Texas, Microcomputer Technologies

Has anyone tried out the Videospigot for Windows?  I'm interested in it
since I had trouble with Creative Labs Videoblaster.  Does it work with
S3 based cards? (Videoblaster kinda did)

From: rik@misty.boeing.com (Rik slaven)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 18:11:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Adaptec + Toshiba CD-ROM
Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplane BCS Support
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware


You have to buy an upgrade from Adaptec (at least I do for my NEC CD ROM
drive). The software is called 'Easy SCSI'. Their 800 number for software is:

		1-800-442-7274

--------
Rik
From: jimbo@jkl.Eng.Sun.COM (Jimmy Diep)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Honeywell mouse with feets?
Date: 9 Jan 1993 01:26:18 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jimbo@jkl.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: jkl

Hi all,

Just wondering if any of you out there
have one of these.  They came out about
6-12 months ago and haven't seen them since.
Does any one know what happen to them
or where I can find one?

Thanks,
Jimmy



Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rich@cctwin.ee.ntu.edu.tw (Rich Tsai)
Subject: Re: Magtron hard disks - heard of them?
Organization: NTUTaiwan
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:29:08 GMT
Newsreader: MS Windows WinVN

In article <C0D8yn.7rw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) says:
>
>A place called Source Electronics is selling these dirt cheap, and
>they say that they are new.  I have certainly never heard of them,
>but for $799 for a 760 MB and $1199 for a 1.2 GB, you have to at
>least look at them! (SCSI of course) I think that comes with only a
>120 day warranty but I imagine you can pay more and get up to a 1yr.
>(Actually the 1.2GB drive comes with a 1 yr warranty)

  Hello,

	I have tested both of them, the 1.2GB ( formatted as 1.06 BG ) is not
         so good and the 760 MB ( formated as 650 MB ) is not bad. But there are
         BIG noise when access them.

                The price is in Taiwan is 1106 US$ for the 1.2 GB. I have heard that
         the company that manufactor this brand of disk is closed and now we
         see are the stocks they have. Maybe no warranty ...., So you need to
         take care when you buy them.

         FYI ...

Rich.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: khor@bnr.ca (Kyle Hor)
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
Reply-To: khor@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:25:04 GMT

In article <C0Cos2.2Fw@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
|> Well, the way I look at it is what is the opportunity cost of not
|> testing a 33MHz failure at 25 MHz? You could 1) throw it away or
|> 2) test it at 25 MHz and sell it if it passes. 
|> 
|> Its a matter of which would be cheaper: to make another 25 MHz chip
|> from scratch _and_ test it or to test the reject. Testing the reject 
|> is cheaper, usually, depending on how many of the 33 MHz failures 
|> would pass at 25 MHz. 
|> 
Don't think in terms of 2 distinct stages of testing - at 33MHz and at
25MHz. It is all one stage.   Depending on the test, it could be a
single test that grades accoringly.
 
For example lets take a simple switching speed from low to high.  If
it takes 35ns to switch (low and high voltage levels reference points
differs in low->high and high->low), then it will fall into the 25MHz
grade.  But if the switching takes only 28MHz then it will fall into
the 33MHz grade.
 
In the actual case, the testing is a lot more complex and there are
hundreds of electrical tests before the chips a graded.

............................................................................
. Kyle Hor                    .    /       / _   .  Email  khor@bnr.ca     .
. Bell-Northern Research Ltd. .   /__\  / / /_\  .  Phone  (613) 763-2488  .
. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada     .  / \  \/ /  \__  .  ESN          393-2488  .
....................................__/.....................................
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jdwhite@iastate.edu (Jason White)
Subject: Mixing DRAMS with different refresh rates
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:29:30 GMT

I just replaced my 36 256x1, 100ns DRAMS with 18 1MBx9, 70ns DRAMS to upgrade
my 286 from 1 to two megs of RAM.  I was wondering if I could put 18 of the
256x1 DRAMS in the machine in order to get another 512K.  I'm pretty sure the
motherboard can be configured to handle it, but I'm concerned because the
two typed of DRAMS have different refresh rates.  Is this going to effect the
operation and integrity of my computer?



-- 
Jason White, Durham Center Operations   // Internet: jdwhite@iastate.edu
95 Durham Center, ISU                  //    Bitnet: jdwhite%iastate.edu@isumvs
Ames, Iowa  50011-2041		      //
W:(515) 294-2256  H:(515) 232-1092   //  N0RWU, V.P. Cyclone Amateur Radio Club
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu)
Subject: Re: Adaptec SCSI controllers query
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:01:15 GMT

Article 48115 (47 more) in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:
From: Angelo Haritsis
Subject: Adaptec SCSI controllers query
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:07:08 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London
NNTP-Posting-Host: dolphin.doc.ic.ac.uk
 
Angelo Haritsis writes:

>Does anyone out there know the difference between an Adaptec 1542A and an 1542B
>controller ? I was told that the only difference is that the A version is 
>a full-length card whereas the B version is a half-length card; functionally
>they are exactly the same.
>Can I connect SCSI devices other than disks (tapes, CD-Rom etc.) on such
>controllers ? For disks: is it guaranteed that any SCSI disk will work
>with a 1542 controller.

Indeed, the only difference between the 1542A and the 1542B is the card
length. Software-wise, the cards are identical. I verified this with the
Adaptec people twice.

-- 
Timothy Hu timhu@ico.isc.com	 | The intelligence (or lack of) expressed
Interactive Systems Corporation  | above does not necessarily reflect the
Resource Solutions International | that of anyone else.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.forsale.computers
From: ychung@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Young Chung)
Subject: Re: 16 meg memory price - $300?  Too good to be true?
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 04:06:02 GMT

In article <16-3a5j@rpi.edu> hsiaoe@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Eric Hsiao) writes:
>
>I just got off the phone with someone from H&J Electronics (800-275-2447) who
>sells 4X36, 72-pin, 70ns simms for an INCREDIBLY LOW $305 !!!
>

Wait!  4X36?  You mean each simm module has 36 chips?  whoa!


----------
Young :-) ychung@napier.uwaterloo.ca  3@#j3kdi$#%98sk30dskf@#sd.as..3k/sdf3lkdf
 ......##,3@!!!,#@##?P}{ -- I'm a .signature Virus!! --.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
From: marc@meadow.uucp (Marc Riehm)
Subject: Programming the mouse at hardware level
Reply-To: marc@meadow.UUCP (Marc Riehm)
Organization: Amdahl Canada Ltd., Software Development Center
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 19:19:39 GMT

Can anyone out there tell me how to program a bus mouse from the register
level?  (I don't want to use the mouse driver).

I have a 386-SX with an ATI VGA Wonder super VGA card with 1MB RAM and a
built-in mouse.  I presume that this mouse is compatible with the Microsoft
Bus Mouse. ???

-- 
Marc Riehm      Amdahl Canada Ltd., Software Development Center
                2000 Argentia Road, Plaza 2, Suite 300
                Mississauga, Ont.   L5N 1V8
marc@meadow.UUCP
From: yuri@amath.washington.edu (Yuri Yulaev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: secon HD jumpers? Misroteck MFM, 70 MB 3085 or 6085
Date: 7 Jan 1993 22:21:51 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Applied Mathematics, Seattle
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: orcas.amath.washington.edu
Keywords: 
	I am going to buy used Misroteck MFM. I'd like to know how to install it

as a second HD. If you can help me, please respond. Yuri
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: yen1366@cs.cuhk.hk (Stannon Yen)
Subject: Re: Cirrus Logic - Wait state
Organization: Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese U. of Hong Kong
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 15:11:34 GMT

h8915726@hkuxb.hku.hk (Medusa) writes:

Hello Medusa,

>	Can anyone tell me how to set the wait state of
>	Cirrus Logic card v1.00d? I'm using a 486DX-50, I'm afraid
>	the card is not very comfortable with this speed, so I
>	want to set it to 1-wait state. But my manual is only
>	for v1.00 and absolutely no description as to how to do it.
>	(not even the pcb layout...)

     You may search for a jumper (2 pin) in the center of your card. If
you found that the jumper is connected, it is in zero wait state. If
not, it is 1 wait state. You may try to remove it. But my ALVGA has no
problem on both state on my 386DX-40. What kind of problem do you have?

Regards,
CT Yen.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett)
Subject: Re: Could we split this newsgroup ?
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 19:24:11 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.213325.3772@lth.se> f88hv@efd.lth.se writes:
>I suggest that the following groups be created:
>
>comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
>comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.drive
>
With all due respects to our friends at ibm... we can probably loose
either the ibm or the pc. 

-- 
|Tom Barrett (TDBear), Sr. Engineer|tom.barrett@amd.com|v:512-462-6856 |
|AMD PCD MS-520 | 5900 E. Ben White|Austin, TX  78741  |f:512-462-5155 |
|"No is yes, And we're all free" ---Tracy Chapman, "Why?"              |
|My views are my own and may not be the same as the company of origin  |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ccowboy@seer.gentoo.com (Sharif Torpis)
Subject: HOW DO I ADD A 1.44MB FD TO A PC'S LIMITED (AKA DELL) 286 ?
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:50:19 GMT
Organization: Brad Lanam,  Walnut Creek, CA


     I have a 80286-based system from 1987 made by PC's Limited. I believe
this is the company that eventually became Dell. I am trying to add a 1.44 MB
FD to this system. However, after running the reconfiguration utility and
telling it that I now have a "HIGH CAPACITY" drive, the system fails to boot
and prints the error message "MISMATCH". Do I need a new FDHD controller card?
Or do I need a new BIOS from Dell? Does anyone have experience with this
model hardware?

ccowboy@gentoo.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: Packard Bell Experiences?
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:17:49 GMT


Among the problems that I have encountered or heard about concerning
Slackard Hell,
1) Their power supplies are too small.  This translates to unreliability
for a given load, and lack of expandability.
2) Their power supplies have a non-standard form factor.  This means that
when yours dies, you must replace it with another wimpy PB supply at 3x the
price of a standard unit.
3) Other components are also non-standard.  Integration of many components
means a failure to one means an expensive replacement of a much larger part
of the system.
4) Schematics, particularly for their monitors, are hard to get, adding
days or weeks to the repair time.
5) Their cheaper monitors really suck, some with dot pitches of .42 or
*worse*.

There may have been others, but thankfully I haven't had to work with
PBs for three years, nor heard much from the PC stores I'd frequent for
leads (I was a consultant) for the last year.  Other than that they were
cheap and relatively turnkey (systems were typically complete, including
rats and s/w preloaded).

-JTT
From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: PKZip 3.05 VIRUS WARNING
Date: 6 Jan 93 08:21:03 GMT
Organization: Frisk Software International, Iceland

worley@a.cs.okstate.edu (WORLEY LAWRENCE JA) writes:

>Netters-
>  I know this is the wrong group for this, but I have received enough
>requests to re-post this letter that I feel it is worth spending the 
>bandwidth on. 

Not only is this the wrong group - the letter is either a hoax or just
written by somebody who does not know what he is talking about.

I have said it before, and I will say it again:

There is a Proto-T virus, but it is quite different from the description
given in the original posting (no "hiding in modem-buffers etc").

This is a simple virus, related to the Civil War II virus, and detected
as such by some anti-virus programs (such as my own F-PROT, which can even
disinfect it).

The virus which was found in some haved version of PkZip is totally unrelated
to this one.

Please don't post the original letter more - regardless of whether it is
deliberate disinformation or just indicates the author's lack of knowledge,
it is absolutely useless, and only helps generating unnecessary fear.

-frisk

-- 
--
Fridrik Skulason      Frisk Software International     phone: +354-1-694749
Author of F-PROT      E-mail: frisk@complex.is         fax:   +354-1-28801
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: WANTED INFO on PS2 UPGRADES
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 12:31:26 PST

In <1363@pivot-sts.sbi.com>, Vijay Bajwa writes:

>I have one of the first PS/2 model 50 turkeys with a 20MB HD and
>1 MB system ram. Recently, I have seen a spate of articles/ads
>exhorting me to upgrade my system to a 386SX. Here is a halfway
>decent configuration, and what it will cost:

>1. Processor upgrade   $250 - $300
>2. 120MB SCSI HD
>   w/adapter           $575
>3. 2-8m board w/4mb
>   on board                 $250
>                            -----------
>Total                       $1085

>For this price, I can get a 486SX clone w/monitor. Why
>should I upgrade? How can these upgrade vendors hope to
>convince anybody.

>Can anyone point me to lower priced upgrade provider with
>acceptable quality?

Due to the proprietary MCA architecture (rather than ISA), PS/2 parts are
generally more expensive.  Part of the reason is that you're "buying IBM"
(which may be their selling point).  It also means that you're buying over-
priced crap if you ask me.  Since there isn't a mass market for PS/2 parts
like their is for the generic ISA architecture, the parts need to marked up
higher in order to make their production profitable.

I'd just see if I could get $500 or so for the PS/2 and buy a 486 clone.  Even
if you only got a 386/40 (you can buy a fully loaded 386/40 system for about
the price you quoted above), you would then essentially be paying $500 or so
for the upgrade.


Tim Irvin
******************************************************************************
From: edwards@ee.fit.edu (John Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Rodime telephone number
Date: 12 Jan 93 07:07:26 GMT
Organization: Florida Tech, CP/EE Dept.

In <DLA.93Jan3142559@se05.wg2.waii.com> dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker) writes:

>Anyone have the USA phone number of Rodime?
>--
>Douglas L.Acker                Western Geophysical Exploration Products

Rodime supposedly is gone away forever, but I was told they hired
a 3rd party to take over tech support.  I was unable to check it
because when I called they were on christmas break.  

You can try 1-800-765-9292.
From: mattc@leland.Stanford.EDU (Matthew William Clarke)
Subject: Need help finding specs for 120MB Quantum Prodrive LPS
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 19:50:13 GMT

Hello, I have a 3.5" x 1" harddrive in my computer, that I believe
is 120MB and I know has a "Quantum Prodrive LPS" sticker on the 
outside.  I am trying to find CMOS values and any other specs that
anyone has available.  I have had the drive formatted at 762 cyl,
8 tracks, and 39 sectors/track, but I have reason to believe that
these are the incorrect numbers.  My CMOS asks for the following
#'s
# of Cylinders  #of heads WPcomm  Lzone  #of Sect

I am also planning on putting in a 386BSD partition, so I need to
know what type of controller is standard with these drives (I am
assuming ESDI), the sector size (assuming 512), and whether the
drive supports bad 144-style bad sector forwarding.  Anyone who
has a drive like this, and has a 386BSD disktab entry for it, please
let me know. 

Also, the technical support number for Quantum would be just as 
appreciated as any of the above information.

Thanks for any help,

Matt Clarke
mattc@leland.stanford.edu
From: marvin.carroll%theweb@meaddata.com (Marvin Carroll) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Home automation & program
Date: 6 Jan 93 20:32:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Web BBS 1-513-436-9011 6 Lines 1200 News groups 50,000 files!
Reply-To: marvin.carroll%theweb@meaddata.com (Marvin Carroll) 

To: alpha@vpnet.chi.il.us (Randy Sales)

RS..If you are interested in home automation and/or know of the x10 system of
  ..control, I have information on two pc programmable controllers that work
  ..with the x10 system of control.  The information is emailable.  Once progra
  ..ed they run without the pc.

Yes, please send me info.  All help appreciated.

CarrollMD

---
 . SLMR 2.1a . 1, PS/zero, then what???
                                                                                                  
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb)
Subject: Importance of Meeting Swedish Standards on Radiation
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:58:05 GMT

I have a choice between taking delivery of a gorgeous MAG 17 inch monitor or
a Viewsonic 17 inch monitor.  I prefer the MAG, but have noticed that the
Viewsonic meets Sweden's standards for monitor radiation emissions, whereas
the MAG does not.  How important a consideration is this?  What is the
currently held scientific view regarding the danger of radiation emission
from monitors?  Is the risk enough to steer me away from a monitor I
otherwise love?  I would appreciate any feedback you netland experts might be
able to offer me.  Thanks in advance.

/Richard
From: rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Tandy MPC Sensation
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:21:01 GMT
Organization: APG-Edgewood

In article <1993Jan7.181822.26822@ornl.gov> gkj@jacobs.esd.ornl.gov (Gary K. Jacobs) writes:
>Any information out there comparing the performance of this  
>multimedia bundle to other brands pieced together with third party  
>multimedia peripherals? 
>
>I know that the price of the Tandy is not as good as, say, a Gateway  
>2000 482/SX-25Mhz bundled with third party stuff, but does the Tandy  
>MPC stuff work better because it has been configured and tested by  
>the company? 
>
>The 105 Mb hard drive seems a little small - will it limit the number  
>and types of software one can have immediately available on the hard  
>drive. 
>
>Has Tandy cut some serious corners that are not readily apparent? 
>
>Is the system a good bet for home use?
>
>thanks
>
>gary jacobs

 
I've looked at one over at a frirnds house. It looks good. But remeber, your
stuck buying just about EVERYTHING from tandy. However for $2000 it isn't a
good deal, a 485 sx system from alot of places (25 mhz like tandy) are 
going for 1300 or less. Snd with that you'll get more memory, larger hard
drive and a better graphics card for $1300. Then just add a cd-rom and a
sound card and you'll probably save about $200. plus you'll save more in the 
long run because you wouldn't have to pay tandy to upgrade.
Rob Merritt