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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: SIMM query
Date: 11 Jan 93 23:15:27 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1993Jan11.161910.26095@zeos.com> jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson) writes:
>If the SIMMs are too slow for the machine they will: 1)work without any
>problems or 2)produce errors ranging from GPFs to parity errors either all of
>the time or intermitantly.  

Or they may work fine for a while and then go bad.  I had this happen
once.  My first computer (an 8MHz XT clone) had 640K of 150ns DRAM.
When I upgraded the motherboard to a 10MHz 286, I transferred the RAM
chips.  Bad move.  It worked fine for a while (about 4 months), after
which I began getting more and more parity errors and general system
lockups.  When I put the RAM back in the XT, it developed the same
problems.

Overdriving RAM can wear it out, making it useless on the machines it
was originally designed for.

Anyhow, when I put 100ns chips in the 286, all the problems
disappeared.  It still froze occasionally, but I'm sure that was
static damage to some chip somewhere.

Anyway, when I got my 25MHz 386 motherboard, I made very certain that
the RAM was the proper speed for it.  I got 70ns SIMMs for it, and
never had a problem.
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From: mccann@plains.NoDak.edu (Lester I. McCann)
Subject: ATI Pro53 Drivers: *Really* buggy???
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:05:50 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

I just downloaded the pro53.zip file from ftp.cica.indiana.edu (in the
../win3/uploads directory, if anyone cares), and installed it.  And
immediately went back to the SVGA driver that I've been using since I've
had my ATI GUP card.

With this version of the driver, in 800x600, 256 or 65K colors, I get
some strange effects.  In 65K mode, the background and all the windows
come up in black and white, but you can see anything useful because 
everything is in a very bizarre B&W striped pattern.  I don't know how 
else to describe it.  In 256 mode, everything looked OK until I opened
an application (Ami Pro 3.0), and then all the text appeared in that
same B&W striped pattern!

It doesn't seem very likely that ATI would release a driver with such
glaring problems, so I'm willing to believe that I did something
wrong -- but I can't imagine what.  I followed their "readme.1st"
file to the letter.

I'm using a Gateway 4DX-33V machine, and my ATI GUP has 2M of memory
and the new RAMDAC.  If anyone has a suggestion, I'd love to hear it.

Lester McCann
mccann@plains.nodak.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: smackinl01@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: WANTED: FD 8xx/Texel 3024 drivers
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:04:07 GMT

Perhaps this isn't the most appropriate group for this, but if _you_ know what
is then mail me and I'll be much happier.

What I need is reasonably simple - I have a Future Domain 8xx compatible
(TMC950 chipset / v7.0 bios), and a Texel 3024 CD-ROM drive for which I need
the MS-DOS drivers. I believe I need a low level driver for the SCSI card, and a
copy of the Microsoft CD Extentions for the CD-ROM. Neither of these were
shipped with the drive or the SCSI controller, so I'd like it if someone could
mail me a copy, or tell me where to go about getting them.

Thankyou for your time,
Simon
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From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
Subject: Laptop Expansion Connector Pinout Needed
Organization: camaro
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 01:34:37 GMT
Summary: Want to build a expansion chassis

Does anyone have the pinout for the 96 pin expansion connector on the back 
of laptops?
 
I want to build up an expansion chassis for my system.  If I get everything 
happy, I'll post the plans so others can build one and save few hundred.



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From: rww@mugwump.cl.msu.edu (Richard W. Wiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Cyrix 486SLC chip; notebook PCs
Date: 11 Jan 1993 01:21:41 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: mugwump.cl.msu.edu

I'm in the market for a notebook PC.  One that looks good to me is
the Compuadd with the Cyrix 486SLC chip.  None of the reviews I've
seen gush over this machine, but the keyboard seems very good to me,
and I like the way they've implemented their trackball.

However, a couple folks have told me that the Cyrix chip is not 
really a 486, but rather a souped-up 386 clone.  Can someone confirm
or deny this?  What does this actually mean -- the chip doesn't really
implement the 486 instruction set?  (If true, this seems awfully close
to false advertising.)  A Compuadd ad claims that this notebook has 
fast floating capacity compared to its 386 competitors -- so does the
Cyrix 486 have onboard math coprocessor, or is that a separate chip?

The other machine that looks appealing to me is the new IBM Thinkpad 700,
which has an IBM 486 chip.  Any insights on that CPU?

Thanks.....
/rich
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rich@bostech.com (Richard Baughman)
Subject: windows locks machine on exit?
Organization: Boston Technology, Inc.
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 93 14:56:00 GMT

I have a friend with a Gateway 386/33DX system that is about 2 years old.
Recently, he upgraded the memory from 4 MB to 16MB.  Now, Windows locks up the
machine every time he clicks "OK" on the Exit Windows dialog box.  Is this
likely to be a driver conflict (mouse is on COM1, modem on COM2)?  Any ideas
on where to look?  [The BIOS reports that it sees all 16MB on bootup.]

Thanks.
-- 
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rich@bostech.com
From: bo@horus.cem.msu.EDU (Bo Peng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Any software besides bios setup for setting bus speed?
Date: 12 Jan 1993 06:51:42 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: horus.cem.msu.edu


Hi,
Does any of you know of any program allowing you to change bus speed?
My (Award) bios doesn't give me the option.

Thanx in advance.

Bo Peng
From: vaughn@nashua4.East.Sun.COM (Vaughn Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Western Digital 700 SCSI board
Date: 5 Jan 1993 17:00:53 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: vaughn@nashua4.East.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: nashua4.east.sun.com
Keywords: scsi

I'm thinking about buying this board for my 386/33. I'm looking for info on this board, ie: speed, compatiablity, drivers and any general comments! Also, does Western Digital have a BBS?

Thanks
Vaughn Rogers
vroger@sun.com


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From: hwrvo@kato.lahabra.chevron.com (W.R. Volz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.forsale.computers
Subject: Re: 16 meg memory price - $300?  Too good to be true?
Date: 12 Jan 93 20:41:52 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: Chevron Oil Field Research Company

In article <16-3a5j@rpi.edu>, hsiaoe@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Eric Hsiao) writes:
|> *** NOTE: I'm posting this for a friend who's newsfeed is currently down ***
|>           Do not E-mail me please.
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> I just got off the phone with someone from H&J Electronics (800-275-2447) who
|> sells 4X36, 72-pin, 70ns simms for an INCREDIBLY LOW $305 !!!
|> 
|> The best price I was able to find other than this was $525 at Chips for Less
|> (214) 250-0009.  I was just wondering if anyone has had previous dealings with
|> H&J, because they sound pretty reputable.  I would really appreciate it if you
|> could send me feedback on this at ksheth@us.oracle.com
|> 
|> BTW, the warranty is for 5 years on these simms.  Thanks...
|> 
|> 
|> 

These are not for real. As some of you have called and found out, the price
is 599 not 305. That is just too good to be true. The poor guy is now
swamped with called. He asked if this was from Usenet (my answer, Usenet,
what's that??). Hehehehehe.
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Phone: (310) 694-9340
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: worley@a.cs.okstate.edu (WORLEY LAWRENCE JA)
Subject: Re: Computer too fast! - Colorado Tape backup unit
Organization: Oklahoma State University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 17:22:12 GMT

From article <1993Jan4.155758.4379@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>, by u5775949@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au:
> HELP! 
> I recently upgraded from a 16MHz 286 to 20Mhz 386 board and now
> find that my Colorado Memory Systems QIC-40 44MB tape backup
> unit (model XR4) doesn't want to work.
> All I get is a error message:
> 	HOST COMPUTER IS TOO FAST
> 
> I have never ever seen this kind of thing before - always the
> opposite !!!.
> 
> Can anyone tell me if they know of a software upgrade, Colorado's
> EMAIL address, any other software that works with this drive, or
> even if the QIC-40 standard is available so I can re-write the
> software my self (rather than disassemble Colorado's stuff).
> 
> I've tried slowing down the CPU by turning off cache, add extra 
> memory wait states, run from BIOS ROM, use the lowest clock rate,
> etc. etc. but nothing helps.
> 
> Thanks, Mark Harrison. Melbourne , Australia.
> P.S. the local agent just wants to sell me a new backup unit -
> but it can't read the old tapes!

CMS Numbers: Product Info/Purchases: 1-800-845-7905
             DOS Computer Hardware-
                Software Questions : 1-800-845-7906
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
             BBS                   : 1-303-635-6650
             Fax                   : 1-303-667-0997

I have called their tech support before (I own a DJ-20 250MB backup QIC-80)
and they were most helpful.

-Jason

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: agrant@mta.ca
Subject: Questions
Reply-To: agrant@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:38:58 GMT



	Hi, I have a few questions after looking at a few magazines this 
week, hopefully someone out there knows the answers

1. I have seen two types of disk drives (IDE and SISC, I Think) What
do these mean and what is the difference between them.

2. When looking at a computer they talk about have 4MB of RAM expandable
to 32MB, how is this accomplished, (by inserting more chips),  So it 
normally a computer had 4MB and i wanted 8MB, the thing to do is add
some chips??

I should have more question later, Thanks in Advance

--Andrew
PS Tim@scr.cppa.utah.edu I can't get threw to you!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: Adaptec SCSI controllers query
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:54:34 GMT

In article <C0Jv8C.3t7@srgenprp.sr.hp.com> darrylo@sr.hp.com writes:
>Barry Sardis (bsardis@netcom.com) wrote:
>
>> timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu) writes:
>>
>> >Indeed, the only difference between the 1542A and the 1542B is the card
>> >length. Software-wise, the cards are identical. I verified this with the
>> >Adaptec people twice.
>>
>> That would seem kind of dumb, unless the A has been replaced by the B. I 
>> was under the impression the the B stood for Bus Master.
>
>     No, both the 1542A and 1542B are DMA bus-mastering cards.  I
>imagine that Adaptec came out with a "B" card because it was cheaper to
>produce (hence, more profits).  I've heard that a 1542C is in the works,
>but I haven't heard much about it.
>
>     The cards (1542A vs 1542B) are not 100% identical, though.  They're
>the same as far as MSDOS is concerned, but they're not 100% hardware
>compatible.  For example, an old version of BSD368 (a PC Unix) would not
>boot from a 1542A, due to some minor difference.

The old 1542's couldn't do scatter-gather, hardly a minor difference when
you're writing/reading to noncontiguous buffers in memory. 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: fonseca@took.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
Reply-To: fonseca@took.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:57:08 GMT


I've had the same thing happen to me.  I ordered a 486SX/33 from
Expo Tech, they shipped me a system with a little label stuck on top
of the 486 chip which prevented you from being able to read the part number.
The label indicates you will invalidate your warranty if the label is
broken or removed.  (The motherboard appears to be clocked at 33 Mhz)

A bunch of calls to their 800 number finally got someone to admit that
they were shipping 486sx25's on their 33 Mhz systems and 486sx20's on their
25Mhz systems.  I'm still waiting for a return number, and even if I don't get
one, my credit card company has told me just to return it 'return receipt
requested', and give them a copy, and they'll cancel the charge.

-Dave
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gsbg9079@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (G. Scott Braley)
Subject: ImageMaker by Presentation Technologies
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:16:18 GMT

I have a piece of hardware with the above name.  It is a slide maker, and I 
bought it at an auction.  It came with no cables, docs or software.  Does the
company, Presentation Technologies, still exist?   Where can I get more info
about this equipment?  Thanks.


					-Scott

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,misc.forsale.computers.pc-clone
From: th@cci632.cci.com (Tim Hinton)
Subject: SYSTEM ADVICE
Organization: [Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, NY
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:37:35 GMT

Hello,
I am in the market for a new computer, I am trying to decide as to what
company to buy from and what parts(harddrives, video cards, etc.) to avoid. 

Processor: at least 486SX/25
 o what motherboard manuf. should be avoided? are pretty good?
 o what chipsets should be avoided(those noted with problems). I have a
   soundblaster I am going to install, a co-worker told me that some chipsets
   cause soundblaster problems.
 o what type of memory?

Harddrive:
 o I have had pretty good luck with Seagate, how are others?

SVGA Card:
 o At least 1MB memory??who

Monitor at least 14" NI:
 o a couple of co-workers has Viewsonic monitors(they all like them), how are
   CTX, EMC, Casper, Pionex, any others? 
 o what is the main difference between a NI and Multifreq. and Multisync. 
   monitors.

Floppy Drives, Keyboards, Controllers:
 o ?????????

Thanks in advance for your help. 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: srheintze@happy.colorado.edu
Subject: Sproradic Disk Errors -- Return Drive?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: 11 Jan 93 20:25:06 MDT

Shucks,  I thought I posted this query on friday but now I cannot find my
orginal query or any follow-ups.

Previously I had a 80MB RLL Micropolis as the boot drive coexisting with a
330MB Maxtor SCSI.  Everything was fine except I was out of disk space.

In early december I installed a 660MB HP SCSI to replace the 80MB RLL.  While I
could boot from the new SCSI, I could not make a number of products run when
restored from tape back-up.  I could not make them run when reinstalled. 

I have concluded that since these products would install successfully on a
ramdrive that the problem was not with the distribution floppies and must be
with the hew HP SCSI.

I finally ran the pattern tester in PCTOOLS.  I then lowlevel formatted the
disk, installed windows, (worked the first time), installed borland C++, and
performed the restore from tape of everything else.

It now appears to work fine.  I am also convinced that I was exeriencing a
hardware or media problem with the HP drive.  I speculate I had some bad blocks
that were, for some reason, not in the factory revector table and were not, for
some reason, immediately revectored when I repeatedly tried to restore or
reinstall borland C++ v3.1, Powerpoint and windows 3.1.
                                                                       
A local retailer and friend of mine said it sounded like a mother-board
compatibility problem, but I don't see how this could be since the disk is
connected to the mother board via a controller (IN-2000) that had been working
just fine with another SCSI drive for over a year.

This behavour is nevertheless strange and I am wondering if these kind of
problems could come back to haunt me in the future.  Anybody have any ideas?

Should I send the drive back ?  It is still under warenty.

			Thanks,
					Sieg
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 12:49:15 EST
From: <JCT3@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: I'll order my Gateway tomorrow

Having spent the holidays working two jobs, I will finally be
able to put my tired--though certainly dependable--8086 (no,
that's NOT a typo) out to pasture.

I'm ordering a Gateway 25mhz 486sx, w/ 4mb memory, 170 mb Caviar
hard drive, IDE local bus hard drive controller, SVGA w/ 1 mb and
a Western Digital graphics accelerator chip, 128-key programmable
keyboard, mouse, DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, Microsoft Works, and a set
of utilities.  I can't afford my monitor, but my Princeton ultrasync
has been behaving itself lately.

Total price, including shipping:  $1206.

I called a lot of different places, but the only places that could
beat that price were outfits I know nothing about, or know too much
about (i.e., Fast Micro).  One of my best friends recently got the
same system (but with the crystalscan 15" monitor, damn him), and
vouches for the quality of the machine.

I am one happy camper.


Jim Thomas
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
Subject: Re: VESA Local Bus Spec?
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 15:34:57 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.042432.18393@netcom.com> larryb@netcom.com (Laurence Badagliacca) writes:
>Where can I get a copy of the VESA local bus specification?
>

 Video Electronics Standards Association
 2150 North First Street, Suite 440
 San Jose, CA 95131-2020
 (408) 435-0333 V
 (408) 435-8225 F

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From: timhu@ico.isc.com (Timothy Hu)
Subject: Re: is CMS trakker 250mb tape backup for real
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 17:17:55 GMT

In article <1993Jan2.192357.22165@digi.lonestar.org> kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher) writes:
>In article <rreiner.725841329@yorku.ca> rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner) writes:
>>hwrvo@kato.lahabra.chevron.com (W.R. Volz) writes:
>>
>>>Someone mentioned that the Colorado 250 mb tape backup
>>>was really a 125mb tape system with compression software
>>>and CMS hoped to get 2:1 compression. Is this for real??
>>>If so, why can't I buy a CMS 125mb drive and use Norton
>>>Backup to get the same thing.
>>
>>Probably because the 125 is really a 60MB drive with data compression
>>software...
>>
>>This appears to have become standard practice in the PC tape drive
>>industry.  IOMega sells a series of "250" drives that use DC2120 -- i.e.
>>120MB -- tapes, with a bundled copy of Central Point Backup doing the
>>compression.  Irwin and CMS label their stuff the same way.
>
>The Jumbo 120 and Jumbo 250 use different encoding schemes on the tape.  The
>250 encoding scheme succeeds in squeezing about 125 MB of data onto a DC2120
>tape.  The Jumbo 120 can get about 60 MB of data onto a DC2120.  
>
 
The DC2120 has more tracks and is longer than the DC2000 catridges.
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From: tony@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Anthony Olejnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Adding RAM to on original IBM PC (w/64K motherbaord)!!!!!
Date: 8 Jan 93 20:43:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

I have an original 64K IBM PC which I'd like to use as a dumb terminal
(running Procomm).

However, I can't boot up DOS v3.2 (or above) on it.
(it comes up with a "configuration too large for memory" error)

Q: Can I add RAM to it so that I can boot it with DOS v3.2?
Q: If so, how can I do this (the cheapest way)?
Q: Are there any special jumpers on the 64K motherboad that I need to change)?
Q: If I'm successful in adding RAM, will I then be able to load DOS v3.2
   (and run procomm)?

Any help would be *GREATLY* appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

--tony
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bill@snoopy (Bill Poitras)
Subject: Re: 100 MHz. 64-bit.???
Reply-To: bill@west.msi.com
Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:25:35 GMT

 (U35805@uicvm.uic.edu) wrote:
:      From the PC Magazine I have just got (Jan. 26 1993. vol-12
:   #2).  On page 356 the ad from Tangent Computer.  They advertise
:   a 100 MHz. 64-bit system with word like this.  (Ready-to-run
:   Windows NT. UNIX and UnixWare -2X faster than a 486-66! A
:   Software developer's dream machine!)  It has a 100 MHZ 64-bit
:   processor, it even has a 64-bit localbus video card.($9,995)
:      It is the next genaration P5 from Intel?  Or other chip
:   maker?  Anyone out there heard it or have their hand on one
:   of this?

If you look closely, it doesn't mention OS/2 as an operating system to
run.  This looks like a machine based on either the R4000 chip from MIPS
or the Alpha chip from DEC.  I would guess the former.

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