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From: cholette@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Cholette Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Adlib/gold vs SoundBlaster Pro?
Date: 27 Sep 92 20:05:04 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal


 I am debating whether to buy an Adlib gold sound card or a Soundblaster Pro.
sound card. I would appreciate some suggestions, which is superior? They
cost about the same amount of money. Whenever I ask a computer dealer, the
suggest I buy the one *THEY* are selling whether it is adlib or SB Pro, so
I am unable to get an unbiased answer.


Thanks in advance to anyone who help's out!
Martin Cholette
cholette@jsp.umontreal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Subject: Re: Intel 486 price changes (Re: THE WAR IS OVER)
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 01:25:13 GMT
Organization: The Programmer's Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI

In article <CARL.92Sep30193308@atlantis.Cayman.COM> carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl) writes:
>Just FYI, I have not seen even *ONE* hardware failure on the 50 mhz
>systems that I have sold.

Well, I've seen problems on a 486DX/50.  The system had lots of
flaky-type problems, like really slow memory performance, problems
with disk controllers, etc.

Of course, it turned out that the motherboard was serial number 1.
Later motherboards from the same manufacturer did not have these
problems.  Sorta makes you wonder, though -- don't most companies do
internal testing on, say, the first 50 boards off the line?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
Subject: NEC phone number?
Reply-To: motcid!wiegand@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 18:22:11 GMT

I need to repair an NEC Multisync II monitor and wanted to see if
a repair manual or a circuit diagram was available. Unfortunatly, the
800 number in the documentation (4 yesrs old) is no longer in use.
Anyone know of NEC's new number?

Thanks for any help.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim)
Subject: PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 00:42:13 GMT

I've been shopping around for a notebook.  One likely one I've found
has a single PS/2 port which you can use to attach an external mouse
or keyboard.  This is good, but I'm interested in attaching a mouse
and keyboard at the same time while keeping the sole serial port free.

One person I've spoken to said he thought you could attach a Y-splitter
to the PS/2 port and connect both the mouse and keyboard at the same
time.  My question is, is this possible?  Are there any problems with
a setup like this?

I have no idea how PS/2 ports work so any info would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.  Please email replies as I don't follow this group.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: alansari@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Mohammad Al-Ansari)
Subject: Serial port causing a SYSTEM REBOOT
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 07:34:14 GMT


I recently purchased a serial card with one port having a 16550AFN
UART to use with my Supra 14.4K bps external modem. Since I installed
the board, the system sometimes reboots when I turn the modem off and
on again (after a while).  When this happens, the system can't seem to
find the port in question until I do a hard reboot.  My system has a
card that is both a SCSI controller and an I/O card in which one of
the serial ports can't be disabled (or at least this is what I
understood from the documentation). Therefore, I have configured the
SCSI card to have one disabled port and one as COM2 and the new card
with one port as COM1 (the one with the 16550) and the other port is
disabled.

My question is: Is it at all possible that the above behavior (i.e.
the machine rebooting) is caused by device conflicts or do I surely
have a defective IO card?  I need to know that before I can decide
whether to send the card back.

I'd really appraciate any help on this matter.  Thanks a lot in
advance.

--
Mohammad Al-Ansari
alansari@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
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From: root@kilowatt.uucp (Kilowatt admin)
Subject: Re: Dead/dying Seagate drive-help!
Reply-To: root@kilowatt.UUCP (Kilowatt admin)
Organization: Kilowatt Computing of Deer Park, NY
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:16:04 GMT


	I have not quoted the original message on purpose...

	I have had the same problem with a few 40 Meg Seagates - ST-251-1's
to be exact. The problem with these drives was the grease they used. It 
broke down a bit, got hard (or more viscous anyway) at room temperature
and would not allow the spindle motor to spin up at power-up. I have never
heard of the heads "sticking" to the platters.
	The obvious cure for this is to never shut off the drive. Or, hang
it out the back, so you can give the clip on the spindle shaft a push - or
just pick it up and give it a twist.
	Also, while the drive is running - especially when at room temp - I
would hear bearing noise. This clears up as the drive warms up. This lends
credulity to the grease theory.
	This is only a theory though. I first heard about it on the net. I 
have NEVER heard of heads sticking to the platters. Oh well.

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From: cholette@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Cholette Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help is ISA vs EISA
Date: 27 Sep 92 19:55:40 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal


Hello everyone, I would like to know if anyone out there know's what the
differences between the ISA and EISA buses are, are both buses 32 bit wide
data buses, are they both clocked at the same speed? What are their respective
data flow rates?

Thanks in advance to anyone who help's out!
Martin Cholette
cholette@jsp.umontreal.ca
From: CCMS@MUSICM.MCGILL.CA (Marc St-Louis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Resetting UART ?
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:09:09 GMT
Organization: McGill University Systems Inc (MUSIC/SP)

Hi there,

Could someone please help me out by describing the steps a pc
communication software must go through to RESET the COM port
when exiting ?

My Modem, UART and I thank you...

Marc St-Louis
CCMS@MUSICM.MCGILL.CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: phil@dnbf01.bram.cdx.mot.com (Phil Longstaff)
Subject: Re: Adlib/gold vs SoundBlaster Pro?
Reply-To: phil@dnbf01.bram.cdx.mot.com (Phil Longstaff)
Organization: Motorola Codex, Mississauga, Ontario
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 12:47:15 GMT

Adlib has just been purchased by a German company (I believe) and will continue
production/distribution.
From: masgn@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Godfrey Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: help needed - copy a: *.* works but not xcopy
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:25:08 GMT
Organization: School of Mathematics, University of Bath, UK


I have a Dell 286, which has a really irritating bug.  When you try to copy
from the a: drive, "copy a:*.*" works but "xcopy a:*.*" won't.  This would be 
just a hassle but pkunzip a:foo.zip locks after the first or second file,
and also similarly with backup.

I can get around this with a little effort, but I would like to know if
anybody has had a similar problem and can point me in the right direction
to fix it.



Thanks,


Godfrey Nolan
masgn@gdr.bath.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jmmcgarr@eos.ncsu.edu (JAMES MICHAEL MCGARRAH)
Subject: Zero-Port Network
Originator: jmmcgarr@c00750-400wi.eos.ncsu.edu
Keywords: network
Reply-To: jmmcgarr@eos.ncsu.edu (JAMES MICHAEL MCGARRAH)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:56:18 GMT


I'm trying to find the software and hardware specs for something called
a zero-port network.  I remember reading about it forever ago in a
magazine.  It was something like hooking up two computers through
a printer port and using a null modem cable.  I've got the hardware
but not the software.  Anybody know where I could find it and
any problems with it?


Michael McGarrah
North Carolina State Student (since forever)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer)
Subject: Re: ViewSonic 6 vs ViewSonic 6e
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:54:52 GMT

macross@wam.umd.edu (Steve Ji-Chang Hong) writes:

>Hi,
>	Can anyone tell me what is the difference between ViewSonic 6 and
>ViewSonic 6e.
>	Thanks

1"





The 6FS is a 15" Micro-Controlled monitor
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: baloo@mik.uky.edu (kevin s coupal)
Subject: HOW do you know if your computer is runing maximum???
Keywords: sped
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 04:36:01 GMT

I'm running a 486/33 And wondering how will you ever know ifyou are getting
100% outof your computer?  I mean.  I am using a 2 meg smartdrv disk cache
which speeds me up a lot and i have 256k cache ram which helps.  But
is there some sort of program that detects your hardware and tells you
how  to optomize your computer? I'm running desqview and it has manifest built
in but It tells me to run optimize and that only serves to make the computer
worse off.  Sometimes..
What can be done?
Thanks
kevin s coiupal

           ^^ Coupal (mispelled)

From: deanc@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Dean Cashen)
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:34:44 GMT
Subject: Re: 486 Summary
Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware / johnson@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Don Johnson) posts:

>In article <...> deanc@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Dean Cashen) writes:

>>I see a lot of misinformation in your post.  

>I stated up front that this was a SUMMARY OF REPLIES to my original request
>for information. Looking through the replies I got, I don't see any
>response from a Mr. Cashen. If you had supplied information, I would have
>certainly included it.           .
                                  .
                                  .
>>    Isn't this really just opinion?  You present it as though it were fact.

>Sir, you give me credit for knowledge which I do not possess. If I had any
>expertise in the area of computer CPU chips, I would have given MY OPINION
>rather than soliciting thoughts from the experts on the net.
                                  .
                                  .
                                  .
>Well I tried to save bandwidth by asking for comments via e-mail and then
>posting the summary to the net. I thought that was good net etiquette but I
>guess I'm wrong again.

No, you're not wrong.

Obviously my post upset you.  Let me apologize.  That was not my intent.
My aim was to correct what I believe were inaccuracies in your posting.
My wording, regrettably, was strong enough to elicit your angry response.

I must say, though, that I disagree with your response that since this was a
"summary" of input you'd received, you feel you have no responsibility for the
content of that summary.  The summary was YOURS, it appears, and some
of your statements are quite subjective.  As an example, you started off
by declaring the differences in the Cyrix 486 to be "deficiencies."  That
sets the tone not as impartial, but as a personal stand on the subject,
which "opens up" your post to discussion.  (Or debate, or. . . .)
Besides, some of the information was, forgive me, just plain *wrong*.
Do you really expect no one to post corrections?  (Now, please don't get
upset at this last line; it's not a personal attack.  We need to keep 
one another honest, and the net rarely fails in that ;-))

>And I hate it when people flame away and then throw a smiley face in at the
>end and pretend to make a joke of it. It doesn't fool anyone you know. 8-}

Kinda like referring to me as "Sir," then going on to suggest I'm a jerkweed
(my phrase, you didn't say "jerkweed," I know.  Everyone ELSE does, but. . .)

By the way, I've been "talking" via e-mail with the gentleman who was the
source for many of the points I contended with.  We're getting along just
fine.  I think you and I can too. . . .

Dean
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick)
Subject: Re: RAM memory is actualy a DRAM, isn't it ?
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 05:43:48 GMT

In <5500023@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> deanc@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Dean Cashen) writes:
>Are you sure it's *only* $150 to add 8MB or RAM (DRAM)?  That's one
>heck of a bargain (I assume you're getting this upgrade as a package
>price).  That's less than $20/MB.  Zounds!  Current DRAM prices for
>70-80ns DRAM were about $50, the last time I looked.  How much did
>you think memory goes for per MB?

For 9 bit 80ns simms the current prices are around $100 for 4 meg simms and
$28 for 1 meg simms.  16 meg simms are just starting to make their
appearance, and go for around $650.  The $150 for 8 meg figure is still way
too low for current prices.

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From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 500
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:41:59 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

In article <BvCFAG.4nz@news.cso.uiuc.edu> veselena@eagle (Jim Veselenak) writes:
>Anyone have any comments, suggestions etc. regarding the HP Deskjet 500?  I can't afford a Laserjet and am wondering if the Deskjet will suffice.  My needs
>are word processing and a little DTP.  Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Yes - go for it - it is an excellent printer ! I have one here and I've
been using it daily for the past 10 months.

Davei
From: smlg1015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Stuart M Lichtenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Multiple Simultaneous Floppy Copies
Date: 29 Sep 92 18:42:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BvCry8.Ano
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana




Dear hardware hackers:

I'm looking for an inexpensive way to do multiple Simultaneous
Floppy DISKCOPIES.  That is, I would like to copy everything on
the A: drive to floppies in B:,D:,E:,F:,and G:  I haven't 
purchased any special floppy controller that handles five
drives.  Is there one?

Thanks for any help,

Stuart Lichtenthal smlg1015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
.
From: Mike@tron.gun.de (Michael Gerhards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Cache questions
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:14:00 GMT
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neurath, Germany

Hallo,

> From: ldstern@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Larry Stern)
> Subject: Cache questions
> Message-ID: <1992Sep7.193149.23396@newstand.syr.edu>
> Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
>
> 2 questions about caches, please:  first, is it really necessary
> to flush the cache (or wait several seconds) before turning
> off the computer?  And second, why does the cache have to be disabled
> before defragmenting the hard disk?

If you have a delayed-writing-cache, you have to wait before poweroff.

If you defragmentate ( correct ? ) your harddisk, the program moves a lot
of sectors from one place to another. But if this program reads from the
cache-memory, it could happen, that the contents of the memory isn't the
same as on the disk. Some programs will run with some cache-programs ( for
example PCTOOLS compress with PC-cache.

c u


Mike
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: Novice user has question about 486SX computers...
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 20:26:54 GMT

I am considering getting a 486SX-25 computer and I am wondering one thing:

If the motherboard does not have an Overdrive socket, can I still upgrade
the processor?

The only way to do this would be to replace the 486SX-25 CPU with another.

Does Intel have something like this available?  Can an Overdrive chip 
fit in the same socket as the CPU?

Thanks.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: 880518l@dragon.acadiau.ca (Nelson Langille)
Subject: Anybody hear of a u82A microline printer?(by okidata)
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 06:13:49 GMT

Anybody have or have an idea of the control signals of 
the u82A microline printer by okidata.  I cant get any
printer drivers to work with it in a graphics mode.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
Subject: Re: Micronics VL-BUS, ATI Mach32, Ultrastor 34F!
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 07:12:17 GMT

In article <54830016@acf5.NYU.EDU> djr8482@acf5.NYU.EDU (Daniel Reznick) writes:
>How much $$ for this?
>
>it sounds very much like gateway's 486DX2 66
>
>which DOES (I have it from Gateway) a Local Bus version of the ATI
>Graphics Ultra Pro.
>
>daniel reznick

Let's see:

Micronics 486DX-33 w/2 VL-Bus slots and 64K Cache
8 MB simm
3.5 1.44MB FD
Quantum 240LPS 256K Cache SCSI HD
Ultra 34F VL-Bus Master SCSI controller
MVC8000LB with ATI Mach 32 VL-Bus 1MB VRAM video card
All in a 19" Mid Tower case with 200W CSA power supply
for $3279 Canadian.



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From: smithgr@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Gregory P. Smith)
Subject: SpeedSTAR 24x drivers
Keywords: Diamond SpeedSTAR 24X SVGA Drivers
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 22:00:56 GMT

I just got a SpeedSTAR 24x for my 286-20.  It works beautifully.  Contrary to
what the zeos faq on it says, a 386 is not required.  The only part that
requires a 386 are the Windows and AutoCAD drivers.  Anyways, I was wondering
if anyone knew of a dos program that can display graphics (Targa prefferably) 
in the 640x480x16.7M mode.  Graphics Workshop works great for the 32K color
modes, but I can't find anything that works in the full color mode.

Thanks,
Greg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,aus.computers.ibm-pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
From: sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO)
Subject: SIS Chipset EISA motherboard any good?
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Keywords: EISA, bus
Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 15:04:38 GMT

Does anybody has experience with SIS Chipset EISA bus motherboard?
The motherboard I am thinking about has 6 EISA bus expansion slots, and
2 ISA bus expansion slots (16-bits). It uses the SIS Chipset as opposed
to the INTEL Chipset and the manual claims to have EISA spec. 3.1 compliance.
It can use 25/33/50 MHz 486 cpu (jumper configuered).  Also able to use
1,4, or 16MB SIMMs, giving a max. of 128MB RAM on board!

The BIOS is AMI BIOS. So, any comment??

Thanks for any comments.

Wey J Ho

PS,
Along the similar line, can anyone suggest a good EISA SCSI controller?

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From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen)
Subject: SoundBlaster Pro vs. SoundBlaster Pro Basic?
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 92 05:12:00 GMT

What is the major difference between these two?  Is the Basic still
true stereo just w/o midi connections?  Are there any other physical
differences I should be aware of?

Thanks,
Mike
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From: robsch@robkaos.GUN.de (Robert Schien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: novice question about UART
Date: 4 Oct 92 19:40:19 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Private Site, Essen, Germany
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Samuel E Wiggins (wiggins@hurricane.cs.odu.edu) wrote:
: I'm considering buying a new modem, maybe a 14.4k.  But, I saw on the net
: that an I/O card with a 16550 UART may be (is?) required.  I used Windows
: 3.1's msd.exe program to identify what my current card has installed.  It
: revealed an 8250.  So, I was wondering if I bought a new modem, would I have
: to buy a new I/O card (or buy the 16550 and install it instead of the 8250)
: or could I get good use out of what I have now?  Also, could someone tell me
: what the big difference is between an 8250 and  a 16550?  (I know the stuff has
: appeared before, but I wasn't interested to know it at the time...)
: Thanks.
It is always a good thing to use a 16550A chip when doing high speed
serial communications. The 16550A has a 16 byte buffer (organized as
a FIFO: first in, first out). This removes the disadvantage of chips
like 16450 or 8250 to loose characters. If you have an I/O card with
the 8250 socketed, simply plug off and install a 16550A.

Of course, your communications software has to recognize the FIFO chip.
But many new packages do this (Telix, Qmodem, etc.). If Windows 3.1 
has a program to check for the 16550A, I think they will support it:-)

Robert
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