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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 8250 or 16450 UART?
From: djlewis@ualr.edu
Date: 11 Nov 92 17:00:14 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock

In article <rdippold.721446706@qualcom>, rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
> bi927@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Yi Jin) writes:
>>I recently ran "msd" from windows3.1. I was suprized to see that my IDE
>>2HD/2FD I/O card on;ly  has 8250UART.  Then I ran an old version of the
>>landmark tester utility. It tells me that I have 16450 UART. So what
>>exactly that I/O use? I would really be pissed off if my 486DX-33 uses
>>8250UART.
>  
> Most UART detection programs seem to be fooled by Windows 3.1's
> virtualization, but MSD tells the truth, as far as I've been able to
> tell.  If it says you only have an 8250 then you only have an 8250.
> That's why you get more COM ports..
>  
> Different programs will say you alternately have an 8250 or a 16450
> because they look the same to the software - it can display either, so
> it just shows one.
> 
> -- 
> If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost
> all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
>   -- G. B. Shaw
I was installing a MCT-?? 2-serial/parallel/game card in a 286 machine,
wirh 8250 UART's and there was a switch setting that made MSD report
as 2 16550 serial ports. This was of course bogus.

Don
djlewis@ualr.edu
From: lawson@ecst.csuchico.edu (M. Todd Lawson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help Please...
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:10:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: charnel.1dpfgoINNrfl
Distribution: world
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: hairball.ecst.csuchico.edu



   Hi!

     I am a student at Calif. State Univ. Chico studying computer engineering.
  I am currently looking forward to a career in the field of technical
  writing and documentation. Because of this, I have decided to start 
  a journal for the most frequently asked questions about computers. I
  intend for it to be a bi-monthly publication with the purpose of answering
  all the most often asked questions new and semi-experienced computer
  users have. It will not be for those of you with off the wall, obscure
  questions, because I will not be able to answer many of those.        

    For me to get started, please send me any question that a new user is
  likely to ask; i.e. What is the speed of my computer? 386 or 33mhz?
  I know that seems simple, but you would be surprised to hear what
  new computer people will ask. 
  
    Below is a subscription form and question
  sheet.  All I ask is that you send me a question, and your name will go
  into the mailing list. However, as I am a student, I have limited funds.
  
  If this is not in the scope of        
  NetNews, then, forgive me and just send a question. I will print as many
  as I can afford and send them out.

    Thanks for your participation, and I look forward to hearing from you.

    Todd Lawson.

    Lawson@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu

    1245 Esplanade Ave. #10
    Chico Ca. 95926

    




    Name:..................................................
     
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   Thanks again.

   Todd.
  
   
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It happens to the best.  It happens to the rest.
From: rg9538@ehsn12.cen.uiuc.edu (Ronald E Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Microlab is a rip-off!!! BEWARE!!!
Date: 13 Nov 92 18:49:52 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

David Reeve Sward <sward+@CMU.EDU> writes:

>Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware: 12-Nov-92 Re: Microlab
>is a rip-off!!.. by G. Steve Arnold@andy.bgs 
>> > This is highly unethical.  I would think the customer is entitled to
>> > receive what he/she pays for.  If they want to give me something "better,"
>> > the least they could do is check with me first!  My reason for posting
>> > this was because so many people seem interested in the 24X, and many
>> > buy through Computer Shopper.  Microlab has the lowest advertised price,
>> > and I'm doing this so no one else gets suckered into this situation.
>> > It's a shot in the dark, but I'm going to call my credit card company and
>> > the post office to see whether what they did constitutes fraud.
>>
>>         Isn't this (barring that they tried to give you a "superior"
>> card...) the old 'Bait and Switch'? Sounds fishy...

>Not quite.  ``Bait and Switch'' is advertising one product at a low
>price but not having it stock and trying to get the customer to pay more
>for a ``superior'' product.  Microlab actually accepted his order but
>_shipped_ a different (``superior'' they said) product without asking
>him first.


I tried to order a Speedstar 24x from those MicroLab clowns too.  When it
didn't arrive in a reasonable amount of time, I called to check the status.
They said it had gone back order and offered me the SUPERIOR STEALTH for
just $50 more.  They also told me that the STEALTH was way faster than the 
24X and some magazine.  I also had a tape drive on order.  I got them to
send the tape drive, but cancelled the Speedstar 24x.  They charged me the
same shipping cost regardless.  

Now that sounds roughly like a "bait and switch" to me....
Sure, they took my order, but I suspect that they knew they weren't going to 
sell me one in the first place!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Re: [IBM] XGA-2 Specs.
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:10:26 GMT

apj@beldin.sun.ac.za (Andries Dippenaar) writes:

>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.

There is a book titled "Power Programming ... The IBM XGA" which
has programming info for XGA and XGA-NI (which I think is XGA-2).
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
If convicted felons can't own firearms, then why in Hell
do we let GE make nuclear weapons?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mleb0097@rz.uni-hildesheim.de (Mark Lebius)
Subject: Re: [I]diots [B]uilt [M]e
Reply-To: mleb0097@rz.uni-hildesheim.de
Organization: Universitaet Hildesheim, RZ
Distribution: world
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:39:21 GMT

In article 22@engr.latech.edu, speedy@engr.latech.edu (Alfred "Speedy" Mercer) writes:
>>>>>>>>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
>Machine Always Crashes. If Not, The Operating Systems Hangs = MACINTOSH
Great idea!

My suggestion:
It's not a Bug, it's a Mistake.

Another Mistake occured In Great America = AMIGA

I need more, morE, moRE, mORE, MORE !!!

Bye,
Mark


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Upgrading a 386DX/33 ?
From: sant_m@cho006.cho.ge.com
Date: 3 Nov 92 14:43:39 EDT
Organization: GE Fanuc Automation, North America



I have a nice 386DX/33 clone that I would like to upgrade.

Raytraces are painfully slow on this machine as I have no math chip.

Aside from adding a math chip and more memory (or buying a new computer),
what can I do to bump up the performance ?  I have heard rumors of a chip
that replaces the 386 with a 486 compatible type part.  Does such a thing
exist ?  How much of a performance boost does it give ?  How much does
it cost ?  Do I still need to buy a math chip ?


All info appreciated.


Martan
From: finocchiaroj@merrimack.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help on stacking a hardcardXL105
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:49:00 GMT
Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA, USA

I need some help on using stacker 2.0 on stacking a hardcardXL105. Here's what
happens when I use stackers install it works fine and its complete.  But when I
reboot my system for the changes to take effect I get a Error to be precise this
is what I get:
	 	Error Volume Damaged (write protected)

I don't have no clue what's going on I need so major help. Someone Please help 
me !!!!!
Organization: Sophomore, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 1992 11:20:46 -0500 
From: Joseph Wei-Cheng Ku <JoeKu+@CMU.EDU>
Subject: I think I crashed my hard drive.

hello.
Yesterday while I was typing away, I accidentally knock off the power
cable of my computer. It went off, wait a split second, then on. After
that, my hard drive hasn't been working at all. Now all it does is
making louder than usual clicking noises, and the LED doesn't light up.
Tried to boot up from a floppy and running all the disk diagnotic tools
I have, (norton, PCtools, chkdsk, etc...) , but the drive still only
give me a blank look (i.e., LED doesn't light up, disk still making
clicking noice) and all the test either says HDD adapter failure, or
just plainly stalls. I have removed the drive from my computer chasis
and tapped on it to see if anything was rattling inside, but couldn't
hear a thing.

The question is, what should I do next? I could either bring it to a
repair shop and tried to get it fixed, or should I just buy a brand new
drive? 
Or better yet, could you suggest a way to fix it? I don't have a clean
room, so I don't want to open it.

help me? please?
-jk
The warranty expired a month ago (DAMN!). 


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: zklf0b@gs144.uucp (Fergason)
Subject: Re: Is Gateway a publicly held company?  I think I'll short some stock...
Keywords: n
Organization: Amoco Production
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:07:44 GMT


In article <GERRY.92Nov10120504@onion.cmu.edu> gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
>Here we go again.
>
>G2000 is unquestionably one of the best companies around.  I offer as
>proof their phenomenal growth, this wouldn't have happened if most
>customers were dissatisfied.  What we see are the net are a bunch of
>cry-babies who complain about anything and everything they can.  Sure,
>G2000 isn't perfect, but overall, they are obviously doing better than
>their competition.  If only more satisfied G2000 customers would speak
>up, the net.world would get a more balanced view.  But, when was the
>last time that YOU said something good about anything?

I must have missed the previous thread.  About 3 times a year, I post
in response to somebody asking/griping/whatever about Gateway.  

Summary:  Gateway is fine.  Some percentage of people who order from
them will have problems.   Most will probably not.  This is probably
true of any company.  At my previous job I was in charge of about 50
386 and 486 machines.  The Seagate hard disks sucked, but everything
else was fine.  Where I currently am, there are lots of Gateways.  
(read hundreds).  Some break down every once in a while.  Again, in
my opinion, normal.

See you in about 4 months.

Kelly
From: roking@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (robert king)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Is there an Intel 80486SX-33???
Date: 7 Nov 92 18:17:16 GMT
Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA

In article <1992Nov4.152814.2462@inland.com> bilimoria@inland.com writes:
[..snip..]
>
>Yes, Virginia there IS an Intel 486SX/33.  But it's so new that most mail
>order salespeople haven't heard about it.  In fact there is no machine today
>that uses it.  ALR (Advanced Logic Research) is scheduled to come out with
>a couple of machines based on this new chip by mid-Nov.  It will a 32-bit
>ISA architecture capable of being upgraded to full DX.

Actually, I have one due to be delivered in a few days from Gateway.  It
was only about $200 more than the 486sx/25, but that included a few
extras the '25 didn't have either - 64K cache 64MB capacity on the
board, MS Word, etc.

Bob King
roking@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu
From: masten@beta.lanl.gov (David A. Masten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help upgrading a 386/33
Date: 13 Nov 92 04:22:59 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory

Please forgive me if this is an overworked question:

I'm already looking to upgrade my 1 year old 386/33.  I've just read
a bit about the pin-compatible Cyrix chip (486DLC?).  Is it easy, or
at all possible, to switch the 386/33 chip with this?  

What other ways would you recommend?
Should I just replace the whole motherboard and get a local-bus type?
Or should I wait for more choices in VESA standard LB?

Again sorry if this has been too often addressed.  Looked thru the last
400 or so posts and didn't see anything.

E-mail preferable.

Thanks in advance,
Dave Masten
masten@beta.lanl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN)
Subject: Re: Monitor screen damaged by Magnet
Organization: Universite de Moncton
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 13:21:28 GMT

In article <22279@drutx.ATT.COM> dfh@dwroll.att.com (D461-David_F_Haertig(Dave)83040) writes:
>From: dfh@dwroll.att.com (D461-David_F_Haertig(Dave)83040)
>Subject: Re: Monitor screen damaged by Magnet
>Date: 9 Nov 92 22:41:12 GMT

>From article <1992Nov09.202601.12715@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, by bmutas@bnr.ca (Bryan Utas):
>> My five year old son decided to see what would happen if he placed
>> a magnet on my SVGA CTX monitor.

>Well, I've heard of degaussers ... but it sounds like your son found
>himself a "gausser".  Does your monitor have a degauss button?  Mine
>doesn't, but I seem to remember that if I power it down for a while
>(5 minutes?  1 hour? ???) it will degauss itself when it is turned
>back on.  I don't remember if I read this in my manual or if it was
>throw at me by a salesdroid just trying to make a sale.  Anyway, you
>might try it - it couldn't hurt.

One of my friend just put the monitor screen-down for 24 hours and the 
problem disappeared.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: GJAMES@HUSKY1.STMARYS.CA (GJames)
Subject: Re: Computer gives three beeps when switched on if weather cold!!
Organization: Saint Mary's University
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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jorgense@plains.NoDak.edu (Lee A. Jorgensen)
Subject: Multiple modems ... 
Summary: same line ...
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 22:35:16 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network


Ok ... I have a Wyse 50 terminal hooked up to my phone line, and a 286 with
an internal modem hooked up to the same line.  Both modems are 2400 baud.
I have them chained right now (my wyse is hooked to the wall and my pc is hooked
to the other jack on the wyse's modem and a normal phone hooked up to the
2nd jack of the pc's modem). 

like:

W
a <----------WYSE <----------PC <----------Phone
l            MODEM         MODEM
l

(poor ascii art:)

Anyway, is there anyway I can use the Wyse to 'look' at the data if I
connect with the PC to the mainframe, or can I use the PC's modem to 'look'
at the data If I use my Wyse?

(in other words ... can I use two modems on the same line, on different
machines, at the same time?)

-Lee.

-- 
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From: lutz@solace.psych.rochester.edu (Dave Lutz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Help-losing CMOS setting
Date: 10 Nov 92 18:26:24 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <721317487.2@altern8.mi> Bob.Dickey@altern8.mi.org (Bob Dickey) writes:

>PP>I've been having an intermittent problem with my PC periodically
>PP>losing all or part of its CMOS memory settings.  Most commonly,
>PP>the clock will lose anywhere from 1/2 hr. to 3 hrs. between

>I have been having probs with my clock too. I don't know what the problem
>is but it just seems to be the clock. Im on a 286 and rest of the CMOS

  Try replacing the CMOS battery.  Just remember to write down all of the CMOS
settings, because they all get hosed when you disconnect the battery.  You'll
have to go back in and fix them by hand unless you have a CMOS settings saver
program.

Dave Lutz
lutz@psych.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: spicer@sponge.micro.umn.edu (Troy Spicer)
Subject: Re: Microlab is a rip-off!!! BEWARE!!!
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis: Under Grad Workstation Lab.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 19:02:14 GMT

In <83386@ut-emx.uucp> reza@magellan.ae.utexas.edu (Alireza Vali) writes:

>It's a shot in the dark, but I'm going to call my credit card company and
>the post office to see whether what they did constitutes fraud.

>-- 
>Ali R. Vali - reza@magellan.ae.utexas.edu

Go with the credit card company.  If you received something you didn't order
(and especially if they refuse to take it back) the credit card company
will credit your account and then do a chargeback to the company, and the
company will have to prove they sent you what you ordered.
 
I ordered a mini-tower computer case from them on their insistance that
a full size motherboard would fit in it.  (The salesperson was not very
helpful).  It didn't.  I was able to exchange it though.

Situations like these are compelling reasons to use ONLY a credit card
with all mail-order transactions.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu (DHALIWAL BIKRAM SINGH)
Subject: Formatting an RLL
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:18:52 GMT

Since I will not be able to have two controllers (MFM and RLL) coexist
in the same computer at the same time Ihave decided to use the RLL drive
which is guaranteed for 65 MB and format the MFM to the same at 26 sectors 
per track (a ST251 is a MFM equivalent of a RLE ST277R).  I will use
the old MFM as a backup drive since so if it does fail (only tested to
MFM standards) it won't hurt my data.  Thanks to one of you on the net
who suggested this to me, you know who you are (but I forgot).

Problem: I used AMI BIOS (dated 1990) to format the RLL drive however
it does not seem high level format using format and I get an error
How do I get the dos off my boot floppy to recognize the RLL as drive
C: ?  Is there something I am missing?

-- 
 
.............................................
 Bikram Dhaliwal (dhaliwa@civ.toronto.edu) 
 Toronto        (dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu)
From: murakami@hac2arpa.hac.com (Gary A. Murakami)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Difference between 3 chip and 9 chip SIMMs
Date: 10 Nov 92 21:08:11 GMT
Organization: Hughes Training Inc.

What are the reasons why I would want to buy 9 chip SIMMs versus the
cheaper 3 chip SIMMs.  Does interleaving or memory access modes come
into play?

----
Gary Murakami       |  murakami@hac2arpa.hac.com
Hughes Training Inc.|  murky@hti.hac.com
West Covina, Calif. |
From: limrcd@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Richard LIM)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 05:42:03 GMT
Subject: Re: V20 wanted
Organization: HP Singapore Notes-Server
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

SGD$20.00 + P&P

SGD$75.00 for 8/10/12 MHz V20 baby motherboards with 1MB RAM + P&P

Note: All parts are from scrapped systems but have been tested OK.

Regards
Richard Lim     "A conclusion is where you get tired of thinking"
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From: cullip@pooh.cs.unc.edu (Timothy Cullip)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Cardinal 700 svga card
Date: 10 Nov 92 12:59:58 GMT
Distribution: usa

Can someone tell me what chipset (ET4000, etc) is in the Cardinal 700
svga card? Also does anyone know what the street price of this card
would be?


-- 

   Tim Cullip
   cullip@cs.unc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Compaq DESKPRO 386 and sector translation
From: jennen@eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu (Steve Jennen)
Date: 9 Nov 92 15:06:44 -0600
Distribution: na
Organization: St. Cloud State Univ., MN

I have a Compaq DESKPRO 386 that's having some boot problems.  I think
that I just need to low-level format the hard drive, but all the
software I've tried to use (Norton, PC TOOLS) all say that they can't
format the drive because it's using sector translation.  In read in the
documentation for Spinrite II that you could disable the sector
translation by using the setup disk.  I got a new setup disk from my
dealer, but there is no option to disable the sector translation on it.

Anyone have any clues on how I can disable it?

Pleaes reply via email.

-=steve jennen	jennen@eeyore.stcloud.msus.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware