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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.consumers
From: fyu@shanghai.oracle.com (Francis H. Yu)
Subject: Upgrading from 386 to 486
Originator: fyu@fyusparc2.us.oracle.com
Organization: Oracle Corporation
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 03:30:24 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

Hi, sorry if this is a FAQ.

My father has a two-year-old Gateway2000 386/25 PC.  He wants to have
it upgraded to a 486/33, which Gateway2000 does not do.  How is PC
upgraded to a new processor?  Do we just buy a mother-board and replace
the old one?  What is a good source to get 486/33 mother-boards?

Please reply by email to fyu@oracle.com.  Thanks.
-- 
Francis H. Yu
Oracle Corporation, 500 Oracle Parkway, Box 659504, Redwood Shores, CA  94065
Email:  fyu@shanghai.oracle.com  Voice:  (415) 506-3129  FAX:  (415) 506-7103
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 15:40:36 GMT

In article <1992Dec25.175707.29098@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> rl@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (roger.h.levy) writes:
=We are not dealing with the difference between formatted and unformatted
=capacities here - just the difference between 2**20 (hexadecimal 100000)
=and 10**6 (decimal 1000000).  If there is an ANSI definition of what a
=megabyte is, then it might be valid to say the advertising is bogus.  I
=frankly don't know although it is far more common to mean 2**10 when
=talking about a megabyte.

There's an international standard that says that "mega" is a prefix
meaning 10**6. Computer types use 2**20 as a convenience and as a convention.
From: boyko@skyfox
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Zoom Telephonics
Date: 30 DEC 92 14:21:28 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
NNTP-Posting-Host: sask.usask.ca

Does anyone know if Zoom has an email address?

I have a zoom 14400/14400 faxmodem that I am trying to configure
properly for my bbs. I need a setup and init string that will
allow me to make callouts and allow users to call me at full
throttle (don't you just love esoteric technical vocabulary?).
right now, the best I can do is callouts and logins at
14400\v32bis\LAPM. Since this modem is supposed to be
able to do v42bis as well, it would be nice if I could get that
feature activated.
here is what i have:
Setup string: AT&FQ0V1M0S95=32W1S11=50
Init String:  AT&FH0E0W1&C1&D2&Q5\N3S0=0S2=1S95=44X4{
my bbs software is wwiv, and i am not the only wwiv sysop with a
Zoom14400/14400 faxmodem (hint, hint!). Its an internal modem,
btw.
please reply by email to boyko@skyfox.usask.ca.
if any of you have any suggestions for this graduate-student-in-
History-who-is-way-over-his-head, feel free to suggest them
in email as well.
charis, Richard.
Abbot Layamon 1@13602 wwivnet (no, that will not work for
internet mail.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mikeg@rocdec.roc.wayne.edu (Michael George)
Subject: IBM FAX SOFTWARE and FAX MODEMS
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 03:08:23 GMT

Currently I am designing an application which will automatically batch
fax documents. Does anyone know of FAX software which will allow me to
work out of batch files and fax documents in WORD PERFECT format?

Ultimately, I would like to be able to do the following...

c:\> fax document.wp 1-333-123-4567

Also, I would like the program to keep a log or set a dos error level if
the fax was successful or unsuccessful.

Am I dreaming? I hope not, should be pretty straightforward.

Can anyone reccommend a good PC faxmodem.

-Michael George III
mikeg@rocdec.roc.wayne.edu

From: dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 00:21:14 GMT
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
Organization: HP LOVECRAFT DIVISION
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

>Some people asserted that it would kill my chip
>soon while others claimed that Intel makes ALL its chips for 33Mhz,
>and only tests the ones at 33Mhz if it plans to sell them at 33Mhz.
>The rest are tested at lower clock rates. This would imply that if the
>chip works at 33Mhz, then it is just as good as 33Mhz.

This is not quite right. Intel tests ALL chips at 33MHz and those
that pass are marked 33Mhz. Those that FAIL are re-tested at 
25MHz and if they then pass, are marked 25MHz. So your 25MHz
chip is marked as such because it failed at least one of the tests
Intel uses at 33MHz. I would not be all that confident of the
reliability of the chip. The dealer is betting that you will not
encounter the failure that made the chip a 25MHz one instead of
a 33MHz one. 

			   Danny Low
    "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
	   Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
	     HP CPCD   dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com
From: anthony@cibbs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro Drivers for Gateway
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 06:31:16 EST
Organization: DataSoft Consulting (Toronto, Ont. Canada)

pastor@prc.unisys.com (Jon Pastor) writes:

> I got the following from Gateway tech support:
> 
> > We are not shipping the Build 50 drivers.  They fix many of the problems th
> > were in previous versions, such as the printer problems, but they also use
> > too many system resources.  This unfortunately causes out of memory errors,
> > even on a 16M system with no applications running.  For this reason, we are
> > not shipping the drivers with our systems.
> > 
> > Hopefully the next set will work better, but we do not support the Build 50
> > version.
> > 
> > Glenn - Gateway 2000
> 
> Any comments from people who've downloaded Build 50 and tried to use?

Glenn is right if and only if you have the Norton Desktop...and even if you do
there is a workaround to get this going (install the program manager by
modifying the SYSTEM.INI, install the build 50 drivers, put back the Norton
Desktop in the SYSTEM.INI).

I've had no problems running multiple applications with the build 50 drivers.

---____  ____
  //     //     Anthony Quinn       Toronto, Ont., Canada
 //     //     anthony@cibbs.UUCP   "Take off to the Great White North..."
 ==== ====    uunorth!cibbs!anthony
From: tnsturm@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Torsten Sturm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Tseng ET5000?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 07:56:54 GMT
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui00d.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:


>Has anyone heard of anything Tseng is up to these days? I can't
>believe they're not coming up with some super chipset - the ET4000
>has been out for at least a year and a half. When is the ET5000
>due?


The ET4000/W32 is out now, but I think that you have to wait
for cards a little bit !

Torsten

---
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                    University of Erlangen-Nuremburg,  Germany

Internet :          tnsturm@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
                    ( tnsturm@immd8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Subject: Re: Is there any merit to the 486SX?
Organization: UESPA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:52:17 GMT

In <1992Dec31.193905.3806@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:


>If you run UNIX on it, of course, you are then using X for your GUI,
>which *does* use the coprocessor.

Hmm, that might explain complaints that DesqView-X is painfully slow.
Perhaps this product should have a "math coprocessor required" label.
-- 

	ergo@netcom.com 			Isaac Rabinovitch
        {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo	Santa Cruz, CA
	
	Abstinence makes the heart grow rounder.
		-- Prescot Gooberstein
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jbm@fokus.gmd.de (Joerg Micheel)
Subject: APLS DR312C 200MB IDE jumper settings
Organization: GMD-Fokus (Berlin)
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 12:05:50 GMT

Does anybody have correct information on this ? I played a bit with
the jumpers because of having troubles and had a little success, but
the controller busy LED remains on and formatting the drive is still
impossible.

Joerg

-- 
GMD	German National Research Center for Computer Science
FOKUS	Open Communication Systems Research Center
							Berlin, Germany
From: ronaldm@rgm.com (Ronald Mendoza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: AMIBIOS
Date: 29 Dec 92 07:07:55 GMT
Organization: RGM *nix - Sacramento, CA

Anyone know what the latest AMIBIOS is?  I just got a 486DX-50, and the
BIOS is dated 12/12/91.

Also, is anyone real knowledgeable about the various Advanced CMOS
Settings?  I'd like to get a in-depth description of what some of the
newer settings are for.  (i.e. Write-Through v. Write-Back cache, Bus
Clock Frequency, Auto Config, Auto_Bus, DRAM Hidden Refresh, etc.)

-Ron (ronaldm@rgm.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: russest@ampex.com (Steve Russell)
Subject: Re: Monitor Tube Aging Question
Organization: Ampex Corporation, Redwood City CA
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 20:57:26 GMT

In article <XokcwB2w165w@infopls.chi.il.us> eck@infopls.chi.il.us (John Eckert) writes:
>Does a monitor which is always displaying pictures 
>"wear-out" more quickly than a monitor which is 
>displaying no picture, assuming that both monitors 
>are always powered-up, and the pictures are constantly 
>in motion to prevent burn-in? 
> 
>In other words,
> 
>When the monitor is idle, is a screen-BLANKing program 
>more "healthy" for the monitor than a program which 
>bounces images of toasters about the screen?
>
>Will the tube "run out of gauss?"
>
>eck@infopls.chi.il.us (John Eckert)
>
>
>--
>eck@infopls.chi.il.us (John Eckert)
>Infoplus BBS, +1 708 537 0247, v32bis. Home of Infoplus.

All things being equal, a tube pulling beam current should wear out
the emissivity (sp?) of the cathode before a tube running below cut-off.

-steve
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 08:35:37 MST
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: $dougn@sasb.byu.edu (Douglas R. Nebeker - MIS_SAS)
Subject: Upgrading--power supply too?
Organization: Brigham Young University


I currently have an old 286-10 motherboard, and am planning on getting a
486SX-25 motherboard.  My old power supply says it is a 200W supply.  Should
that be enough for the 486SX?  Also, is there any easy way to determine if
the current fan will be enough to keep things cool?

Any ideas or experience?

Thanks in advance

____

Douglas R. Nebeker           Internet: $dougn@sasb.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From:  (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: U of Il. School of Life Sciences
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:44:41 GMT

In article <5870140@pollux.svale.hp.com>, dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny
Low) wrote:
> 
> This is not quite right. Intel tests ALL chips at 33MHz and those
> that pass are marked 33Mhz. Those that FAIL are re-tested at 
> 25MHz and if they then pass, are marked 25MHz. So your 25MHz
> chip is marked as such because it failed at least one of the tests
> Intel uses at 33MHz. I would not be all that confident of the
> reliability of the chip. The dealer is betting that you will not
> encounter the failure that made the chip a 25MHz one instead of
> a 33MHz one. 
*----
Do you have any reason to believe this is really the case?  It would be
very costly for Intel to test ALL chips.  Usually they're sampled from
batches.  If one sample chip fails at the higher speed and passes at the
lower speed, then the whole batch is designated for the lower speed.  So
chances are good that some will function at faster clock speeds.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cm@ebpe.demon.co.uk (Colin Manning)
Subject: Probably a FAQ: how do I tell if I have 16550's ?
Distribution: world
Organization: Electronic Book Publishing
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:50:16 +0000


(probably a faq, but)  how do I tell if a PC is equipped with
16550's without taking it apart ?
I.e, in software ?

Many thanks,

Colin Manning            | Electronic Book Publishing Europe Ltd
cm@ebpe.demon.co.uk  	 | Tel: +44-71-495-3801      Fax: +44-71-240-4138
From: isc30108@nusunix1.nus.sg (AMBAT SASI S/O PALISSERY P)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 160x100 textmode on a VGA
Date: 23 Dec 92 13:19:49 GMT
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

how to achieve the above mode on a VGA ?
how to change text bacckground blink bit to high intensity?
every time i access 3c0:10h the system hangs.
pls help.

sasi.
<isc30108@nusunix.nus.sg>
From: nickgill@doc.bmd.trw.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: DOS in real-time?
Date: 20 Dec 92 15:58:50 MST

Have any of you ran into problems using DOS in real-time? If so,
please e-mail me with the information.
Thanks,
Nick
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542B Question
Organization: Adaptec Inc., Texas
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:03:55 GMT

In article <85479@ut-emx.uucp> ifai645@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul C. Janzen) writes:
> In article <1992Dec09.194049.7866@adaptx1.UUCP> neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese) writes:
> >Do not use this upgrade package if you intend on using another OS other
> >than DOS as most of the non-DOS drivers are canned to use the 64 head by
> >32 sector translation.
> 
> I thought that most Unices (for the 386) popped into protected mode
> and ignored the Bios translation after that. So it doesn't really
> matter what translation you pick: the driver talks to the SCSI drive
> in a fundamentally different manner than BIOS. I know that this is the
> case for Linux. The only software that cares about the head/sector
> translation is the partitioning software and the boot-from-harddisk
> software. 

True, the BIOS is not used by any UNIX's, but the fdisk fucntion done by
UNIX's does create a partition table on the disk and it is here where
the problems come in.  If you are not using DOS on the disk, it doesn't
matter if the partition table has more than 1024 cylinders written to
it, but then again you wouldn't need the BIOS/firmware upgrade either.
If DOS is on the same physical disk as UNIX, the partition table will
get over-written by the UNIX fdisk with it's own parameters, which are
usually hard-coded at 64/32 and this is where the problem is.
The BIOS/firmware upgrade is only useful for DOS only systems where the
disk is larger than 1GB (2^10).
---

			Roy Neese
			Adaptec Senior UNIX/SCSI Software Engineer
			UUCP:	convex!egsner!adaptex!neese
			Inet:	neese%adaptex@cirr.com
From: bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Epson Apex 1000 (Fx80 clone): 24pin?
Date: 29 Dec 92 04:58:51 GMT
Organization: a2i network

I just got an Epson Apex T-1000 printer.  My question:  Is it a 24pin
printer?  It was sold to me without a manual, and I can't find any
characteristics of a 9pin printer.   The output seems too good for a 9pin
printer..  Can anyone clarify or confirm?  Is it indeed a 24pin printer?  

Draft output seems remarkably fast, but NLQ is slow as usual.

Thanks.
Email preferred as this is most likely a personal question..

-- 
Bryan Woodworth <bryanw@rahul.net>
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:34132 comp.periphs.scsi:6241
From: eichi@forty2.physik.unizh.ch (Stefan Eichenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542B and ATI Ultra+ Conflict running Windows 3.1
Keywords: Adaptec, SCSI, ATI Ultra, Win
Date: 24 Dec 92 13:29:45 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: Physics Institute, University of Zuerich, Switzerland

In article <BzqC3p.Iu7@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> dherman@cape.UWaterloo.ca (Dennis Herman) writes:
>Dennis
>>Hi there,
>>
>>I just purchased an ATI Graphics Ultra+ card and am having all kinds
>>of problems trying to get it to work.  My problem is that Windows
>>.....
>> After two days of trying 
>>everything I could think of, I finally traced the problem to my SCSI controller.
>>My 1542B uses the default settings (DMA 5, IRQ11, DC00, base addr 330H etc.).
>>...  I am using ASPI4DOS,SYS driver dated 6-20-91.  Is there a newer
>>one available?  The memory aperture feature of the ATI card is another
>>possibility, for that is the main difference between the 8514/A driver and
>>the mach32 drivers.  As I said, 8514/a driver works fine except it is a
>>bit slower and has no virtual desktop support.  Any other suggestions?
>>

I just stumbled over a parameter for ASPI4DOS.SYS, of which I don't know
whether it helps in your case: /N (Bus ON Time). The Adaptec Manual says
nothing about it except that it changes the Bus On Time anywhere between
2 and the default of 11 /us, and that some tape streamers need that for
proper DMA operation. My new Colorado streamer requires /N2.

Before installing the streamer I run with the default, i.e. /N11. No problems
on my 486/50MHz with ATI Ultra (not Plus!), except that the hardware test
feature of both Fastback Plus and CP Backup reported that they could not
operate in high speed (that is 2 DMA channels simultaniously). And now they
can...

I've not yet a feeling whether this change influences any other disk 
operations, I got a couple of crashes in the mean time, but I fiddled a lot
with different TSRs, so I can't yet trace it to this new parameter.

Can anybody give a comment what's going on? What Bus On Time means? I seem
to recall that it has to do with the timing of some AT Bus handshake lines,
which are toggled upon address decoding by an addressed card. But then,
why do the Adaptec and Streamer manual only refer to it in conjunction with 
DMA?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL)
Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:20:03 GMT

>>>Well, am I he last person on earth to find this out?  My Maxtor 7213a
>>>(which all of the adds list it as 213 meg drive) is only 202 megs!
>>>213,000,000 is not 213 megs (213 megs=213*1024*1024)
>>>Thank you, I feel better now.
>>Neither is my Conner CP3204F a 212MB drive, but a 202.765625MB, even though
>>Conner has advertized it as 212MB. Every drive manufacturer seems to 
>>conveniently forget what a megabyte is... I guess someone started it and 
>>everybody else had to follow, so people wouldn't think they get better deals
>>for some drives (Wow, 10MB more for $5!!!).
>I thought most manufacturers put down the UNformatted capacity of the drive?
>>Is the Quantum 240LPS really a 240MB drive, by the way?

My Maxtor 7120A is advertised as a 130meg hard drive and formats out to
129,931,264 bytes.  Maybe it has something to do with drives around 200megs?
From: v923137@vms.ucc.okstate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Types of memory chips
Date: 2 Jan 93 05:34:07 GMT
Organization: Oklahoma State University Computer Center

In article <1i30piINN7ol@agate.berkeley.edu>, joak@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jonathan A. Kung) writes:
> I do not understand why memory chips are differentiated by price
> and name like DRAM, SIPP, SIMM, etc, 

These terms only refer to the packaging in which the memory is housed.
DRAM means Dynamic RAM, which just means it must be constantly "refreshed"
as compared to SRAM (Static RAM), which maintains it's contents for a longer
period of time, and requires no re-fresh cycles, just a constant supply of
voltage.  DRAMs are faster, and the re-fresh circuitry is complex, therefore
the higher price.  SIMM, SIPP, DIP etc. refers to the packaging of the 
memory.  SIPPs and SIMMs are similar, except that SIMMs have a card-edge
connector, and SIPPs have pins for a connector.  They both contain several
chips mounted on one board.  A DIP is an older style of packaging memory.
Each chip (each in it's own DIP package) has 14-18 pins.  The main difference
is that SIMMs and SIPPs require MUCH less real-estate than DIPs.

> ...  and what exactly things like
> "256x4" and those other numbers mean.  Could someone please inform
> me on what makes these different, and how to read "256x4"?

A conventional DIP memory chip, that is say 256Kx1, means there is 262,144
memory locations on the chip (256K bits).  Each can store a 1 or 0 (binary).
A 256Kx4 DIP or SIMM/SIPP has 256K x 4 bits.  That is, 1,048,576 memory 
locations.  The IBM needs at least 512K BYTEs, with each byte containing
8 bits.  So, for 256K BYTES, you must have 256Kx8 bits.  This means you
need 2 256Kx4 chips, or 8 256Kx1 chips.  However, IBM-PC computers also
use what's called a "parity-bit", or a ninth bit.  This is essentially a 
way to check for memory-errors.  So, to get 256K bytes on the IBM, you need
256Kx9 bits.

So, when you see a 1MBx9 SIMM, that means that on one SIMM, you have 1,024Kx9
bits, or 1,024 K Bytes, including the parity bits.

Hope this helps,
-Jason Worley
From: limrcd@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Richard LIM)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:31:28 GMT
Subject: Re: the HP Deskjet - - info wanted
Organization: HP Singapore Notes-Server
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

<xiongtou@cda.mrs.umn.edu> writes;

| I have been using HP Deskjet 500 for two years now and had no problem
| with it.  The quality of print and ease of use are great, but I suggest
| that you go for a laser printer.  I don't like the ink catridge system
| of the printer very much; I can only print about 200 (two hundred) pages
| for each ink catridge and it cost about $20.00 to $30.00 for each
| catridge.  You might better off with a laser; it's much more expansive,
| but you don't have to spend lots of money on ink.  As I see the toner  
| for laser would print about 2000-3000 pages with the cost under $100.00.
| You will save more in the long run.

I am surprised that you only got 200 pages. If you are printing 
mostly text, you should get about 500 pages with our standard 
cartridge and 1000 pages with our new high capacity cartridges.

You should discuss this with our dealers and/or our Customer
Support Center.

Regards
Richard Lim     "A conclusion is where you get tired of thinking"
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