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From: frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Jumper settings for Kalok 40MB HD
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:08:06 GMT
Organization: York University, Dept. of Computer Science

Hello,

I'm posting this for a friend who has no access to the net. He has a Kalok 40MB
hard drive. The only numbers we could get from it are YD 380B-6170. He did not
get any manuals when he bought the drive, and now that he is looking to buy a 
second drive hge is being told that most drives will not work with the Kalok.
I'd (well he) would love to hear from anyone that may have the JUMPER settings
or manual for this drive, and also if anyone has gotten it to work (Kalok) with
other drives in a master/slave configuration.

BTW - the drive is an IDE drive and he is looking to buy another IDE drive. The
machine is a 386/33, AMI bios, chipset ??? (forgot).

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From: dhw10@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (David H. Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HELP!! prodesign IIs and windows 3.1 problem
Date: 29 Sep 92 16:48:26 GMT
Reply-To: dhw10@RUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (David H. Wang)
Distribution: na
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

Hi,

  I have a prodesign IIs 1meg video card and I'm having some trouble
running Windows 3.1.  Specifically, whenever I resize a window, say
the program manager window, the smaller I resize the window, the brigther
that window becomes.  This is especially noticable when I set the desktop
background to black.  I have a 486dx 33mhz, 4 megs, viewsonic 6e
non-interlaced monitor.  Also, this brightness is true no matter what
video mode I'm in, either regular vga, super vga, 800*600, etc.
  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you!


Dave
From: forsyth@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: lightning communications
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:19:01 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Lightning Communications make 14.4k modems.
i've tried ringing Lightning Communications Inc on the numbers i have:
	1-800-433-4420
	1-714-457-9429 [bbs]
	1-714-457-8004 [fax]
but they aren't at home [not even the fax!].

are they all on holiday,
have the numbers changed, or
has something struck Lightning?
From: STDN%MARIST.bitnet@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Dan Newcombe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Help is ISA vs EISA
Date: 1 Oct 1992 09:09:57 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

On a similar note:
  How does one tell if they have ISA or EISA???   I have a 32 bit slot.
It's huge and empty  :|   My computer is a Gateway 2000  386/33DX.
  -Dan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: fontenot@ravl.rice.edu (Dwayne Jacques Fontenot)
Subject: where is the ATI Ultra Pro???
Organization: Rice University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 01:04:51 GMT

hello,

Several weeks ago everyone was talking about the "shipping any day now"
ATI Ultra Pro. I have not heard anything about it since (except for some
people who actually believed Gateway was bundling a V-LB version ha! HA!!).

So where is it? Has it been delayed to 1Q93 like everything else?

Dwayne Fontenot

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: elgreco@milton.u.washington.edu (Jared Vogt)
Subject: Stealth problems
Organization: University of Washington
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 03:56:03 GMT

I am having problems with the Diamond drivers for the Stealth Vram.  A call
to Microsoft produced the information that Diamond was in the process of 
fixing some the drivers.  The Diamond BBS has been promising them for a 
while now and they still have not appeared.  
I initially noticed the problem because cut/copy in Paint would not work.  
Subsequently, I found that I could not use MS powerpoint.  One innocent click
on a particular category in the toolbar would crash windows.  Is anyone
else having these problems.  I down loaded a generic S-3 driver from MS,
and my system works, but at the detriment of speed, which is why I bought
the dang card in the first place.  If there are people out there using the 
Diamond drivers sans problem, could you please email me either a copy of the 
driver, where to get it, or the version.  If people are using the same version
as I, successfully, do I then have a conflict with my particular computer?

thanks in advance
Jared
Please respond with email to:
elgreco@u.washington.edu
.

Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:25413 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:13111
From: roman@cs.ubc.ca (Marc Romanycia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Wanted: ARCNET software for PC-110 cards
Followup-To: poster
Date: 27 Sep 1992 12:15:37 -0700
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: cascade.cs.ubc.ca

Hello,
  At a recent swap meet I acquired two SMC Arcnet PC-110 cards without
software or documentation.  I would like to use them for simple file
transfers between two MSDOS machines.  If you have software to sell
which would do this, or if there is public domain software that will do
this, I would be happy to hear from you.  Also, I would be happy to pay
someone for their trouble in sending me a copy of documentation for the
PC-110 cards.
  Thanks for your attention,
Marc Romanycia (roman@cs.ubc.ca)
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:25478 comp.sys.intel:1781
From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Software to format Conner IDE drive?
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:09:53 GMT
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

This has been said before, but it generally is not a wise idea for a user
to (attempt to) low level format an IDE drive.  Many of these drives use a
propietary (spelling?) sector translation scheme that results in a less
than fully (or sometimes non-) functional drive after low level formatting
by the user (even using 3rd party utilities supposedly designed for the
job).

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Jim Johnson-
*** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: IBM pc JX
From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 04:50:04 GMT
Organization: Datamark International Ltd.

In article <BvBz1z.n17@syd.dms.CSIRO.AU> valaris@swifty.dap.CSIRO.AU (Andrew Valaris) writes:
>Could someone please tell me the difference between the pc jr and the pc JX.
>I have the latter one, which looks nothing like the jr. I can find plenty of
>info on the jr, but nothing on the JX. Was it only available here in Australia
>,when was the JX released? I know the jr was released around '85, and it was
>(by the looks of it) crappy. Is it PC and/or XT compatible?

As far as I can remember, the PC JX was an IBM Japan/IBM Pacific (?)
product and was offered for sale in markets which were deemed to be
stupid enough to buy them. (Australia, New Zealand, etc)

It is PC compatible in a limited sort of way. It's graphics are a
superset of CGA. I think that most of the hardware is proprietary.

The best bit was the infra red keyboard - it was a lot of fun to reset
a computer that someone else was using when standing behind them.

-- 
    Thomas Beagle | thomas@datamark.co.nz  or  thomas@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz
Datamark Intl Ltd | 
 Technical Writer | I don't need a disclaimer, I live in a sane society.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pzs@ficus.webo.dg.com (Peter Z. Simpson)
Subject: Re: token-ringing
Date: 25 Sep 92 10:44:06
Organization: Data General Corp., Westboro, MA

>>>>> On Wed, 23 Sep 1992 02:27:11 -0400 , "Mark D. Schroeder" <ms70+@andrew.cmu.edu> said:

> What are the chances of getting two machines running on TR without
> some sort of expensive go-between? As I understand it, there has to
> be some sort of controller - you can't just wire the two machines together.
> What does the controller do, exactly (besides switching machines in and out
> of the ring)?

    Having been involved in Token Ring design here at DG, let me try
to tackle this. The "controller" you refer to is called a Token-ring
Access Unit (TAU). It's basically just a bunch of relays, transformers
and connectors. It's passive and serves to convert the ring topology
to a star topology. The benefit to you is that you only need one cable
out of your PC instead of two to connect you into the ring. 

    The TAU really does just switch you in and out of the ring and
provides a central connection point for everyone on the ring. That's
all it does. I don't know what the going rate on TAUs is, but they
shouldn't cost more'n a couple hundred dollars and each one is good
for 8 stations.

    Thin Ethernet would be cheaper and with only two machines, you
probably wouldn't notice the performance difference.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: isc10085@nusunix1.nus.sg (NG YENG YONG)
Subject: PC Chips Chipset
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 06:06:15 GMT

Does anyone heard of or come into contact with motherboards with PC
Chips chipset from TAIWAN?. I think this is a new chipset, so I would
like to get more information on this issue. How about SIS chipsets? Are
they reliable and safe? Any comments are welcomed. Thanks.

Best regards,
Steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: faruque@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Abdullah Faruque,334CH,3752,2654247)
Subject: Re: Some silly RAM questions...
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 18:19:02 GMT

From article <1992Oct02.133553.115@zeos.com>, by jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson):
> In article <1992Oct1.192007.12381@sura.net> wbarnes@sura.net (Bill Barnes) writes:
> [various stuff deleted for brevity]
>    3) Motherboards that can be upgraded from 386 to 486 machines _generally_
> use 386 chipsets and may not support burst mode transfers etc. You may want
> to stick with a board that starts out at a 486SX and goes up from there.

That is probably not true always. I have a motherboard that can use a
386DX,486DX,486SX or 487SX. It uses Forex 486 chipset (FRX46C411 and
FRX46C402) as far as the manual says. I do not know if they are
actually 486 chipsets or not. But it supports burst mode operation as
well while using a 486 CPU. I have used both 386 and 486 CPUs in this
board and it works fine in both cases. I did not notice any
performance difference while using this board with a 486 CPU compared
to a regular 486 motherboard with same speed.

If any body knows a place to get the data sheet for Forex 46C411 and
46C402 chipset, please let me know. Any tel. number of Forex guys will
be very helpful.

>    4) Most boards like this that I have seen either use some sort of cache
> module or have DIP sockets on the board that will accept additional cache
> RAM.
> 

I think in most motherboards, you will have to replace the existing
cache memory with higher density memory for an upgrade towards the max
capacity. 

>    Hope this helps,
> ---JRE---
> 
> 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich)
Subject: EGA problem with MS-Windows
Organization: Weyrich Computer Consulting
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 04:42:52 GMT

Hi --

I just  bought a used Magnavox "Professional Multimode Color  Display"
model 8CM873 and a Magnavox "Multires Expanded Function Enhanced  Graphics
Adaptor" Model 8AV480  [also marked VEGA Video 7] from someone over in
misc.forsale.computers.

I am having trouble getting it to work and was hoping  for some net.advice.

It works fine until I try to install either Windows 3.0 or Windows  3.1.
At the point  where Windows tries to go into graphics mode, the image begins
to appear, but is distorted by a "V" shaped horizontal dislocation (tearing)
that degenerates quickly until the monitor loses sync completely.

I am using a 286 Motherboard with 4 MB RAM and AMI BIOS, and have DOS 5.0
loaded. I have  tried all possible combinations of switch settings and
can't find any that work. I have tried using the driver that came with the
card, as well as the Windows drivers. Nothing seems to work.

Has anyone seen a similar problem? Is the problem in the monitor or the card?
Unfortunately it  may be the monitor, since my NEC Multi-sync II (vga) monitor
does not seem to show the same problem  when  hooked up to the same system.
But that leaves open the possibility that the card  is out of tolerance
and that the NEC is doing a heroic job of compensating for the defect in the
card.

Before I complain to the person that sold me the monitor, I would like to
exhaust all other possibilities. 

Please e-mail  me with advice  -- my newsfeed is VERY unreliable right now.

My e-mail address is:    uunet!weyrich!orville
or			 orville%weyrich@uunet.uu.net

Thanks in  advance.
From: Mike@tron.gun.de (Michael Gerhards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP: harddrive freezes when 386 is
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:23:00 GMT
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neurath, Germany

Hallo,

> From: jeffs@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Jeff Smith)
> Subject: HELP: harddrive freezes when 386 is in turbo mode
> Message-ID: <18b8u1INNf2h@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
> Organization: Kansas State University
> NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
> [..]
> When running Windows, and the hard drive is reading data, and if you
> move the mouse at the same time, and the machine is in TURBO mode,
> the hard drive hangs and the red light stays on.

I've had the same problem with my old 286-motherboard. After a few tries
I remarked, that the expansionslots run with the full CPU-frequency.

After turning off TURBO-mode, everything went right. Perhaps, you have to
change your motherborad.

c u

Mike
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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 15:28:13 EDT
From: Floyd L. Roberts <U5CAB@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: QEMM 6.03 and Cyrix 486SLC-25

 I currently own an Zeos 486SLC 25mhz running DOS 5.0 and Qemm 6.03
with no problems. I did have to exclude the shadow memory areas both for bios
and vifeo memory. Other than that ,,not a problem

                         Floyd Roberts
                         DCSSI WVU FAO
Internet U5CAB@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: k36853p@saha.hut.fi (Tapani Otala)
Subject: 20M worth SIMMs, only 16M visible.. what gives?
Summary: Only 16M visible of 20M
Keywords: SIMM,memory
Reply-To: Tapani.Otala@hut.fi
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 01:47:10 GMT

I have a generic 33MHz 386 PC clone with AMI BIOS dated 3-Nov-90.
The machine is supposed to support up to 32M of memory, with two
banks of four SIMM slots each.

Recently I upgraded the memory from 4*1M=4M to 4*4M+4*1M=20M.
However, only the first 16M of those 20M are visible. The
freaky thing is, when the machine boots it only checks the
memory up to 16M, but yet the AMI BIOS 'splash' screen
correctly shows bank 0 being populated by 4M SIMMs and bank 1
being populated by 1M SIMMs. So at some level the BIOS _is_
aware of the memory, but fails to report it further.

Anybody know how I can make use of the full 20M?  I've tried
swapping the SIMMs so that bank 0 is filled with 1M SIMMs
and bank 1 is filled with 4M SIMMs - to no avail. As far as
I can tell, the BIOS doesn't offer any way to force the
memory size to be something else than what it thinks it is.

An additional question, if you will. The machine had a 64K
on-board cache when it had only 4M of memory. Now that there's
20M of it, must the cache be equally enlarged to accommodate
the change?  That is, is there any relation between the amount
of memory installed and the amount of cache memory required?
The motherboard allows up to 128K of cache memory...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tdbear@tandon.com (Tom Barrett)
Subject: Re: 586?
Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:40:34 GMT

In article <16206@global.hacktic.nl> peter@global.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser) writes:
>Intel called 'it' the P5 because 

... that is how they refer to their processors before
introduction.  They do not want "586" associated with it and
have taken legal action to prevent companies from advertising
that number (not taking such action could be interpreted as a
blessing and cause trouble with legal battles later on).

They will give it a "proper" name when it is formally
introduced.  Right now, there aren't that many systems around
which can make proper use of the P5.  Intel would probably not
like their P5 stuffed into a box with someones 16-bit, circa
1990 chipset as the first machine to hit the market :)


-- 
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Tandon Corporation      609 Science Drive          Moorpark, CA  93021 
Sr. HW Design Engineer  "War is Peace, No is Yes, And We're All Free!" 
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From: rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Kendall Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Clock doubled 486DX2.
Keywords: 486DX DX2
Date: 26 Sep 92 06:38:07 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

I have a 486/33 system which I am very happy with at the moment. However,
given the proliferation of the new clock doubled 486/66DX2 (or whatever
it is called :-), can you simply grab one of these new chips and stick 
it into you 33Mhz motherboard and away you go?

Alternatively, my motherboard can be switched to run at 50Mhz, so can
I get a 486/50 and stick this in, or is it more complicated than this?

Please reply via email...

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From: IFF291@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Stephan Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: What's "Taipei Intl Electronics Show"?
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:08:41 GMT
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich


I happen to be in Taipei in October and noticed that they have the
Taipei International Electronics Show at the Taipei World Trade Center,
from Oct. 7 to 13.

Does anybody know whether this show is interesting to PC users? Do they
show PC-related stuff too or is just electronics in general?

Thanks for any pointers,
Stephan





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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tbm@cbnews.cb.att.com (thomas.b.merrick)
Subject: Re: Gateway Telepath
Organization: AT&T
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 17:26:38 GMT

I am 
Unable to connect  from telepath to ATT2224 modem pool.  An ATT4024 and
a MHz T2400(?) in my Toshiba connect just fine.  I tried init strings
supplied by GW.  They tried to  connect and couldn't.  Seems to me
the 2224 is a common modem and others have had the same problem.  But,
does anyone have a solution?  I'd like to keep the modem, but ....

Tom Merrick

From: David.Norman@ttlg.UUCP (David Norman)
Sender: postmaster@ttlg.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 486dx2 on old motherboard
Date: 26 Sep 92  00:41:46 mst

Hello Will!

22 Sep 92 00:47, Will Gridweed wrote to All:

 WG> From: gridlock@cats.ucsc.edu (Will Gridweed)
 WG> rr!olivea!hal.com!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!cats.ucsc.edu!gridlock Newsgroups:
 WG> comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: 486dx2 on old motherboard Organization:
 WG> University of California, Santa Cruz
 WG> @Message-ID: <19lqedINNrpm@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
 WG> Date: 22 Sep 92 00:47:09 GMT
 WG>
 WG>
 WG>   I have a quick question: I have an "old" 486-33 motherboard, before
 WG> the 486sx came out. Can i pull the 486-33 out and replace it with a
 WG> 486dx2-66? Is the 66mhz *really* all internal, or does it need a differnt
 WG> crystal/oscillator/whatever on the motherboard to facilitate the operation
 WG> at 66mhz?
 WG>
 WG> Thanks
 WG> -Will
 WG>
 WG> --
 WG> gridlock@am.ucsc.edu
 WG> "Evil Pays"
 WG>
 WG> -+- Fred-Uf 1.8k
 WG>  + Origin: Passed through TTLG:  UUCP <> ProgNet gateway (42:1000/2.0)
 WG>

Yes.

David

 * Origin: Dave's Place - Edmonton Alberta (42:100/37)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kim@uful07.phys.ufl.edu (Jaewan Kim)
Subject: 15" or 17" monitor?
Keywords: MAG, NEC, CrystalScan
Organization: University of Florida, Gainesville
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 20:37:31 GMT

I'm shopping for a new monitor. A freind of mine has one of the older
NEC which I think is similar to 3FGx today, and he just loves it.
That's when I began to think buying an NEC myself. But I have just
found out there are non-negligible number of complaints about this
monitor and the service of the company. Please email me about any
incidence on any NEC monitors.
I also found that MAG 15F runs about $100 less and have 1280x1024,
which is mroe than NEC offers. Anyone has experienced this monitor?
You can send me any stories about any 15"monitors.
The question boils down to "is it worth buying 17" monitor over 15 or
even 14" counterpart, with all these problems popping out?"
I wanna know your honest opinion about whether 17"ones are technically
stable? 


-- 
Jaewan Kim at the University of Florida Physics department
internet address: kim@uful07.phys.ufl.edu
From: d5kwedb@dtek.chalmers.se (Kristian Wedberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: are EISA & local bus mutually exclusive?
Date: 2 Oct 92 09:37:34 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology


There are some multi-function LB cards available, and unless performance is
compromised, they could make 3 slots last a lot longer.

	Kristian Wedberg

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: miax@ais.org (Kris Kortright)
Subject: QUESTION: Are IDE cacheing controllers better than Smartdrive?
Organization: UMCC
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 21:39:21 GMT

      Im wondering, are those IDE cacheing controllers, the ones that can
make your access time like 0.03 ms as opposed to 15 for my harddrive, and
can have 8 megs on them, that are a 16 bit card better than programs like
smartdrive or Qcache for speeding up harddrive loading?  The cards sound
great, but someone said they thought the program ones were just as good, is
this true?

	Kris 


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware