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From: ma@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ex
Date: 13 Nov 92 09:42:39 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

I recently bought a 486. But the Ads and the salesperson claimed it had a
graphics accelerator card. When the machine came, it is a STB Evolution.
Is STB Evolution a graphics accelerator? Does anyone know or have any
experience about it?

Another question is that it does work with VPIC even with the OEM driver.
Have any idea to fix it?

Thanks
Ma
From: craigm@sequoiasequoia.com (Craig Maiman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SCSI-2 HD <--> SCSI-1 Cntlr OK???
Date: 9 Nov 92 20:02:38 GMT
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

The subject says it:  Can I use a SCSI-2 Hard drive with a standard
SCSI controller (Seagate ST01)?  Do I need a special cable?

Thanks,

Craig
E-mail: craigm@sequoia.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: smintz@sedona.intel.com (Stephen Mintz exp 11/92~)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Funny Quantum 240AT HD noise?
Date: 6 Nov 1992 15:37:49 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: alamo.intel.com
Keywords: quantum hard disk
Originator: smintz@alamo


What you are hear is a recalibration test, all quantums do it, there is a temp
gauge in the drive as the drive warms up (it will do it more as it is cold) it
will do a head test to make sure of alienment...
Stephen
From: edwong@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu (Edward Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: diamond speedstar 24X
Date: 11 Nov 92 16:03:26 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Boston University Information Technology Boston, MA USA

Can somebody give me the spec of speedstar 24X please?  Especially I want
to know the winmark of it?  I have ordered but not yet received the ATI
ultra + and I am thinking changing the order to 24X.  If you bought one,
tell me how you feel, and how is the 24 bit mode.
Thanks.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman)
Subject: New Computer Recommendations:  Brands?
Followup-To: hartzman@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov
Keywords: new computer, brands
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:59:48 GMT

I'm looking for some recommendations on computer brands for PC-clones.  A
friend is looking to buy a computer, and my source dried up.  Is Gateway
any good?  Compuadd?  Dell?

I've heard good and bad about all, but any good recommendations about any
makers which are easy to deal with when problems arise (always the kicker!)
would be appreciated.  

I'm figuring a minimum of a 486/33, 200M IDE, SVGA monitor, et al.  Any
recommendations on any of the above components is also appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Les



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Jet Propulsion Laboratory   M/S 238-528    (818) 354-5964
4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena,  CA.  91109
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
Subject: Re: Wanting Info on HP 500C Deskjet!
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 04:53:05 GMT

In article <1992Nov5.162123.11889@comp.lancs.ac.uk> davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles) writes:
>In article <c5h1nm@rpi.edu> gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) writes:
>
>>>Well I have used one.  It is sloooooooooooooooow.  It doesn't give that
>>
>>have you ever used a $8000 textronix solid ink printer?
>>All color printers are slow (at least this year)
>
>Nope, but I've used a Calcomp A3 colour printer and it will print an A3 page
>in about 5 mins compared with the Deskjet 500C's 1 hour.
>

you are exagerating, because I have never printed anything that has taken more than
15 minutes.

>I also used to look after / modify greyscale photo-plotters which used to print
>a 10 * 11 " image at 300 dpi in 256 shades of grey in 25 minutes.
>
>Davei

yes, I know, but how much did they cost?

Mike
From: johnson@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Don Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How to examine Phoenix cmos settings
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:48:10 GMT
Organization: AMSAA/GWD, APG, MD 21005

In article <1384@netxcom.netx.com> pdressne@netxcom.netx.com (Peter Dressner) writes:

>I have a PC at home with AMI BIOS, and its easy. Just hit the Del
>key and the CMOS setting menu appears. No such luck with Phoenix BIOS.

I would have thought the Del key would cause a character to be deleted. :-}

With my Phoenix BIOS the Ctrl-Alt-Esc combination gets the Setup.


-- 
W. Donald Johnson
From: rj@cadre.com (Rob deFriesse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HDC technical info. wanted.
Date: 6 Nov 92 18:54:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: fripp.1992Nov6.185449.729
Reply-To: rj@cadre.com
Organization: Cadre Technologies Inc.

I would like to find a source for technical specifications or data sheets
for various hard drive controllers.  If there is a bulletin board or anon.
ftp site that I could get information from that would be great.

If the info. isn't available in that way, maybe I could just get it from
the manufacturers.  Either way I would like to get the phone numbers of
various HDC manufacturers.  If anyone has the phone numbers for the
following companies or any others I'd sure be grateful if you would send
them along to me.

    UltraStore
    Adaptek
    Future Domain
    PSI
    DTC

B.T.W., if there is a FAQ for this stuff, please let me know where it is.

Thanx in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: The P5 will be called the Pentium
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:52:49 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.052421.11291@nuscc.nus.sg> law30056@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN KEN HWEE) writes:
>Say... when will the Sex-tium or Sexium come out?!
>Red-hot fast and flashy, it should be!


Naah....

they'll just call it the Pentium II...



Wonder what Motorola has up its sleeve...




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From: lutz@solace.psych.rochester.edu (Dave Lutz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Talon hard disks?
Date: 10 Nov 92 19:06:48 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Rochester (Rochester, NY)


  I'm considering the purchase of a 120MB Talon IDE hard drive, and would like
to hear from anyone who has had experience with them.  I don't know anything
about Talon, and am mostly concerned with reliability.

  The drive I am looking at is the TA3020A drive, advertised by Hard Drives
International.

  Comments about Hard Drives International are also welcome.  So far, I'm
pretty impressed with them (price, technical knowledge, etc).

Thanks,
Dave Lutz
Internet: lutz@psych.rochester.edu
BITNET:   lutz@uordbv
From: jeffgus@netcom.com (Jeffrey Gustafson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Why would Zmodem not work on a 286-12?
Summary: Zmodem transfers aren't working on a 286-12
Keywords: modem serial
Date: 5 Nov 92 08:00:31 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


	A friend of mine has a Everex 286-12.  When he downloads with
the zmodem protocol it gives CRC errors every 10 seconds or so
(irradic).  It is a problem with his 2400 w/MNP-4 and his
V.32bis/V.42bis modem.  The both modems were in error-correcting
modes.  I took all cards that could interfere (scanner, mouse, Sound
Blaster) and removed the config.sys and autoexec.bat and nothing
helped.  When he used the same modem and I/O card in a Delta Gold
286-10, he had no problems.  He has no problems or errors with the
files when he uses Ymodem/G (no CRC errors when unzipping).  There are
no visible errors when he's online.
	What could be the problem?  I have no clue.  Any suggestions?

---
jeffgus@netcom.com
Jeffrey Gustafson
From: jepace@chimi.engr.ucdavis.edu (Logjam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: CMOS meanings
Date: 9 Nov 92 02:37:56 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering - University of California - Davis

I recently lost my CMOS settings, and I was wondering what the 
following hard drive settings mean:
LZone, and WPcom.  WPcom says it is either 0 or 65535 (or some
number like that.)

These were not found in THEREF42.zip, but all the other settings were.
If anyone knows where I can find these values, please respond.

Thank you!

James

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From: vchow@nike.ColoSpgs.NCR.COM (Victor Chow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: printer with built-in fonts
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:13:09 GMT
Reply-To: vchow@nike.ColoSpgs.NCR.COM (Victor Chow)
Distribution: world
Organization: NCR Microelectronic Products Division

Why printer manufacturers make built-in fonts in the printer?

Can somebody there explain?

I want to buy a printer, but why do I care if it has 7 fonts (BJ-20) or
scalable (LQ-570)?

I have an old Citizen printer 120D (tiny, 9-pin very basic) and with just
my MS Window Write (it is not even Word!) i can print scalable characters
in all those fonts that come with MS Window!

You can re-post this to the newsgroup, but also send me an email, because
I don't read this newsgroup very often, so I have ~400 messages waiting
to be read.

Thanks, Victor

Victor.Chow@nike.ColoSpgs.NCR.COM
Home of NCR 77C22EP VGA chip 
NCR Corporation - Colorado Springs
Any brazilians out there?
From: sb@next.neuro.emory.edu (Stephen O. Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Multiple video cards in one PC ?
Date: 6 Nov 1992 15:37:09 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Dept of Math and CS
Reply-To: sb@next.neuro.emory.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: next.neuro.emory.edu
Keywords: video



  Hi,

    Can anyone out there recommend methods for using multiple video cards
  in a single system ?  These don't have to be VGA cards, but should at
  least co-exist with VGA.  I saw an ad a while back that advertised
  a method for using multiple VGA cards in a single machine, but I
  can't remember where I saw it.  Responses by email are preferred if
  possible.


  Thanks,


  Steve Berger (sb@onripx.neuro.emory.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: apj@beldin.sun.ac.za (Andries Dippenaar)
Subject: [IBM] XGA-2 Specs.
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 08:27:29 GMT

Howdy netters,

  I've tried to follow the different snippets on the XGA-2 on the net,
  but haven't been able to get a complete feature list for the XGA-2.
  Has someone got a (close on) complete list of the current features/
  implementations/prices/future enhancements?  Is it really as fast as
  the ATIs of this world and how does it compare to fast framebuffer
  cards like ET4000s -- I just want to get my appetite whetted.

  APJ
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: duhita@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Hendi Riyanto)
Subject: PS/1 and PS/2
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 07:18:42 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523
Keywords: different between PS/1 and PS/2

I was wondering if someone there knows the different between IBM PS/1
and PS/2.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: u9044140@cs.uow.edu.au (Scot Joseph Wilson)
Subject: Re: [I]diots [B]uilt [M]e
Organization: Hey , I'm already missing one T
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:02:28 GMT

>>>>>>>Idiots Built Me..
>>>>>>>Intercourse Beats Masturbation..
>>>>>>I'd Buy a Macintosh
>>>>>It *Beats* a Mac.
>>>>Idiots Become Managers
>>>I Believe in Money
>>>Ive Been Moved
>>>Itty Bitty Minds
>>I Been Misled
>International Big Mother
>It's Better Manually
>Itty Bitty Machine
>I wanna Be a Macintosh

It's real simple everyone :

I'm Broke Ma!
Idiot Box Machine
I'm a Bit Muncher
Irrelevant Beauracratic Monolith
Ideaological Bastard Maker


-- 
  Scot Wilson, The man with One T.            u9044140@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au
    "Its Scot with 1 T because all the other four letter words were used."
		DEUS EX MACHINA!	E PLURIBUS UNIX?
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From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Is Gateway a publicly held company?  I think I'll short some stock...
Date: 12 Nov 92 17:48:43 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <1992Nov10.142952.24553@utkux1.utk.edu>, harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp) writes:
|> >I'd figure that after the fiascos with the floating point math and telepath
|> >modems, as well as signs of inability to deal with growth (late machine
|> >deliveries, apparently some machines not burnt-in shipping to customers,
|> >-- 
|> >Christopher Chow
|> >---------------------------   Phone:          518-426-0687
|> >1 Notre Dame Drive - Rm 317   Internet:       chow@theory.tc.cornell.edu
|> >Albany, NY 12208-3413         America Online: Chris Chow
|> 
|> 
|> Uh oh, I just ordered a Gateway 2000 Telepath modem.  Did I miss something?
|> What was the fiasco with the modems?  Did I make a bad decision?

Gateway had an early problem with the modem, it has been redesigned
and works great. The only problem is with the software, Gateway
advertises CrossTalk for windows 2.0 but ships version 1.2.2.

I called Gateway and was told, 2.0 will be available for a fee in
about a month, However, I called DCA and they told me if
I bought Crosstalk for Windows 1.2.2 in the last 2 months I needed to
send them a copy of my sales receipt
From: dnwangus@flash.LakeheadU.Ca (Dave Angus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Need PS/2 port to 9 pin serial port converter for MOUSE.
Summary: me too (except mine is a Logitech)
Date: 7 Nov 1992 04:01:29 GMT
Organization: Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada

ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG) writes:
>Hi! I have a Microsoft Bus mouse and it comes with a PS/2 style connecter. I
>want to get an adapter to change that port to a serial connector. I know some
>mice come with those kind of adapters, but I don't think the local computer
>store would sell the part after I rip it out of the box. :) Suggestions of
>places (ie: mail order) and prices please. Thank you.

Howdy
  I've got a similar problem, only my rodent is a Logitech Series 9 mouse,
model PS/2-SERIAL.  I got my hands on a Microsoft mouse adapter, but the
sex of the connectors was wrong, and the wiring of the pins didn't make 
sense anyway.  I know that Logitech will sell me an adaptor, but I'd just as
soon hack off the PS/2 plug and put a 9 pin connector on there.  Does any
kind soul out there have one of these adapters, and would they be willing
to find out the pin-out (or whatever you call it) with an ohm meter and
tell me what it is?  

Thanks for the bandwidth.

regards, Dave

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: young@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (young)
Subject: Looking for RS232C extension board
Organization: Dept. of Information Science, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan.
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.net
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 11:04:30 GMT


Hi!

I am looking for a board that can extend an IBM PC or compatible to
more than 3 RS232C ports. I heard that there is one designed by 
AT&T ( maybe called CHANNEL-4). Who can give me an idea of what it
looks like, and where can I buy one or similar board (with possible
price) with the same function.

Please send email to me at
young@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Thank you in advance.

===================================================================
S. H. Young
Dept. of Information Science
Univ. of Tokyo


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cheese3@ioc.unibe.ch (Daniel Hirschi)
Subject: Microscience 7100-20 IDE HD Problems
Organization: Institute of Organic Chemistry
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 08:29:32 GMT
X-Posted-From: cheese3.unibe.ch
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

I have problems with my harddisk: It kepps making bad sectors! After it had 
some 30 bad sectors about six months ago, i sent it in, they did a low-level-
format and it was ok. But now it gets bad sectors again! It is a IDE-Harddrive
MICROSCIENCE 7100-20 with 120 mb capacity.
I called in to the technician and was told that the errors tend to come 
more often with age and number of low-level-formats.

What should I do???? Calibrate and Speedstor 5.2 are available, but should I 
use them?? Anybody having the same problems???

Thanx!    Daniel
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From: sdoran@sam.ksu.ksu.edu (Steven Marcotte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Heat and 486 again
Date: 9 Nov 1992 11:43:22 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.ksu.ksu.edu


	I bought a 486DX/50 about two months ago.  When I bought it
I had a heat sink with fan installed, this is something that isn't 
included in all systems, you have to specially request it.  Anyway,
after several attempts the fan that is attached to the heat sink is still
loud and causes vibration.  The case seems to have adiquate air
flow, so would a heat sink be enough to provide enough extra cooling to 
the chip?  If not, what other options are avaliable to cool things off?


Steven

--
Steven Marcotte


"Sometimes it is better to have twenty million instructions by
        Friday than twenty million instructions per second." -- Wes Clark--

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: arc5@chempc0.york.ac.uk (Alastair Cargill)
Subject: Re: Computer gives three beeps when switched on if weather cold!!
Organization: University of York, UK
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:58:40 GMT
X-Posted-From: chempc0.york.ac.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <GJAMES.180@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA> GJAMES@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA (GJames) writes:
>From: GJAMES@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA (GJames)
>Subject: Re: Computer gives three beeps when switched on if weather cold!!
>Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 14:02:40 GMT
>In article <arc5.68.721252012@chempc0.york.ac.uk> arc5@chempc0.york.ac.uk (Alastair Cargill) writes:
>
>>Hi
>
>>The header says it all really. If the temperature of the room is below about 
>>11 degrees C the computer just repeats a three beep sequence and the monitor 
>>remains blank. Once the room is relatively warm there appears to be no 
>>problem. What gives?? Is my computer just a more sensitive soul than me or 
>>should I worry?
>
>>Cheers
>
>>Al
>
>
>3 beeps usually means a parity error in the first 64k of mem. Try reseating 
>your memory chips
I have eight 1Mb SIMMS but I have removed these and made sure they were put 
in properly but no joy. After warming it up last night it fired up alright 
but all the CMOS settings had reset themselves so I really dont know whats 
up. Someone in our lab has suggested that it is possibly a dry solder joint 
that only makes contact above a certain temperature - does this fit in with 
the three beeps?

Cheers
Al
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
From: skadron@owlnet.rice.edu (Kevin Skadron)
Subject: Memory errors
Organization: Rice University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 07:05:54 GMT

	I have a 386-SX clone with 8 Megs of RAM (1 M SIPPS), and am running
OS/2 2.0.  About two weeks ago I started getting Trap 2 errors and they have
been increasing in frequency.  The obvious guess would be that I have a
memory chip failing, but I can't interpret the address I get from the Trap 2
message.  The Trap 2 message lists the register contents, then something to
this effect:

		##0160:fff6453f  -  000d:a53f
		60000,9084

I get the same values above almost every time it crashes.  Does anyone know
how to interpret this to figure out which SIPP is going bad?

	A second question: I have once received a Trap 8 (with the same 
address).  What is a Trap 8?

	Thanks!
 

-- 
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skadron@owlnet.rice.edu       |      computer program is due tomorrow.
Rice University               | * My opinions are my own, dammit! *