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From: alpha@vpnet.chi.il.us (Randy Sales)
Subject: Looking for vga page white monitor?
Organization: Vpnet - Free Usenet access
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:46:08 GMT

I am looking for some advise on a vga page white monitor.  Would like to know
cost of 14" nice performance one and how much a larger size would cost.  I have
not seen much in the way of 14" page white.  Are they a vanishing animal?  I 
want it for a second computer that I really do not need color for and I thought
page white would hold the cost down.  Since I am using a Sony 1304 I have not
been impressed with the inexpensive color monitors.  Thanks.
From: VICTOR@gribb.hsr.no (Hansen, Thorleif V.    6-93)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How to tell SIMM speed (ns)?
Date: 17 Nov 92 11:47:58 GMT
Organization: Rogaland University Centre

In article <1992Nov16.173653.3134@opus40.ix.de> hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz) writes:
>From: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
>Subject: Re: How to tell SIMM speed (ns)?
>Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:36:53 GMT
>
>In article <1992Nov13.041552.1270@williams.edu>, Josh Thayer <Joshua.L.Thayer@williams.edu> writes:
>|> 
>|> Probably a stupid question, but I don't know: I need to tell what the
>|> speed rating is on a pair of SIMMs I took out of a dead machine. Is the
>|> fact that their serial number ends in a "-7" mean that they're 70ns?
>|> 
>|> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>|> --------------
>|> Joshua Thayer                            |  I use antlers in all of my
>|> decorating.
>|> Joshua.L.Thayer@williams.edu		|
>yes.
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>|Dipl.-Ing. Harald Milz                   |    EMail:		hm@ix.de |
>|iX - Multiuser Multitasking Magazin      |    FAX:    +49 511 547 47 33 |
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>None of the above statements are intended to be coincident with opinions
Yes.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: patw@cserver.plexus.com (Pat Wilson)
Subject: Modifying BIOS
Organization: Plexus Corp. -- Neenah Wisconsin
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:00:38 GMT


I am looking for some information on PC BIOS.  The specific questions
are:

1)  I assume that the BIOS for each PC is "fine-tuned" for the 
    particular chip set used to implement the PC.  Is this true?

2)  Are there companies that will sell BIOS code that can be
    modified for a specific platform?  Who are they?  What is
    the cost for the code/royalties/etc?

3)  Does there exist a BIOS implementation that will boot the
    operating system from a PCMCIA memory card?  Who has it?
    what products was it used on?  If not, is there a BIOS that
    supports a PCMCIA memory card on a PC?

Please e-mail responses to patw@cserver.plexus.com.  Thank you for
your help,

				Patrick A. Wilson
From: weiwang@diamond.rutgers.edu (Wei Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: NEED: A/D Board
Date: 22 Nov 92 02:56:20 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


A/D board in IBM-PC for research, 2 channels, sample rate > 20MHz/channel,
or one channel A/D with a multiplexer, A/D sample rate > 50MHz,
DT-connetor, C supporting. VERY URGENT!!!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: reynolds@doppler.ncsc.org (Mark Reynolds)
Subject: Broken PS-2...Help!
Organization: North Carolina Supercomputing Center
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:58:48 GMT

	Hello,
	  My friend has a PS-2 model 30 (286-10). The other day it just
	stopped working. Totally dead...no beeps...nothing. When we started
	looking at it we noticed the 286 is running REALLY hot. My question
	is, how hot do these normally run. Is the chip shorted? Could some-
	thing else cause the CPU to run hot? 

	Thanks,

	Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mrkg1094@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Madhab R. Khoju)
Subject: Help with lack of memory!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 18:41:28 GMT


  Hello!  I just got a game that requires 528K of memory.  However, I have 517K of memory.  Whenever I try to run it, I get a message telling me I do't have suufficient memory.  Then, I checked the amount of EMS left... I have 933K left of it(EMS).  The problem is that I don't know how to harness it.  I have EMM386, and I also don't know how to use it.  I've tried reading about it in my manual, that was no help.  
  If anyone knows how to expand my computer's memory, please E-mail me at:             mrkg1094@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu  

  PS:  By the way, I have DOS 4.  My computer has 2 megs of memory, but I'm not using all of it.                                                                     Thanx in advance!  
  Ps
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hyunk@seas.smu.edu (Hyun Cheul Kim)
Subject: possible Maxtor 213mb HD problem?
Followup-To: hyunk@seas.smu.edu
Keywords: Maxtor 213mb HD
Organization: SMU School Of Engineering and Applied Science
Distribution: USA
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 06:25:56 GMT

I recently bought maxtor 213mb HD and I was very happy with it.
But couple of days ago, I noticed that time to time, the drive
make weird sound and my power supply seems to be over-exerting 
itself. It does this for few seconds. I tested its media type 
and there are no errors at all.

Is this normal?

Thank You.


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From: rnegrete@digi.lonestar.org (Ricardo Negrete)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: DEICO motheboars
Keywords: DEICO motherboard
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:26:04 GMT
Organization: none

Gentlemen,

My supplier is offering me an excellent deal on the DEICO
motherboards. I only buy  AMI or MICRONICS, but he tells
me that this motherboard is as good as these two, and that it is
upgradable from 386-25MHZ to 486-33.

I like to know if anybody out there has run any compatability
and reliablitity test on this DEICO motherboard.

Any information is greatly appreciated.

thank you,

Ricardo Negrete 
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From: sander@contrast.wlink.nl (Sander Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: OS/2 2.0 and modem use
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:18:01

In article <1992Nov16.154349.29840@u.washington.edu> you wrote:

 RM> Boca Research 14.4k modem (has a 16450 :(  ).   I know that a 16550 is
 RM> much better in a multitasking environment, [...]

You pinpointed the problem yourself.. if you want to multitask with a
communication task in the background you can't do witout a 16550, because it
has a 16 byte buffer, making it possible for the CPU to spend less time
looking at what comes in through the RS232. Without the 16550 incoming
characters might get lost in the stream, as you have experienced..

 RM>   And does anyone know if the Boca can be upgraded to a 16550?

All I know is you need a soldering-bolt to replace the 16450 on the 1440 I..

Cheers,
Sander.
From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Is ZEOS financially sound?
Date: 23 Nov 92 14:28:09 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA

In <By5n4J.EIK@utdallas.edu> goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL) writes:

>I've been reading/hearing that ZEOS isn't doing too well these days.

>With the success of Gateway/Dell/Compaq/IBM, Zeos appears to be one of
>the companies that is losing business to these big 4.

>I am just interested in people's opinions on the future of Zeos.

>Please make replies public.  Thanks.


 Well, if you're really interested.  Zeos is a public company, and you
can follow their stock prices.  You can also easily get ahold of copies of
their year end statements, etc.

 IMO, Zeos is not doing great.  They're hanging in there, much like the other
Minnesota based computer company Northgate.

 But seeing these new price/performance strategies from IBM, Compaq, AST,
I don't quite understand why anybody would purchase mail order any more,
so a lot of these companies are going to be hurting even more over the
next year.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel)
Subject: RGB to VGA ?
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:08:10 GMT

Hi,

I have a 386 with an Packard Bell SVGA (1024x768 interlaced) colour monitor
and an MSX2 homecomputer, with which I use an old colour T.V. as monitor.
My MSX2 has a total of three monitor output connectors:
- RF		for a PAL TV signal (using a antenna plug)
- monitor	for both an audio and a video signal (using two cinch-plugs)
- RGB		for an RGB signal (using an SCART or Euro-AV connector)
The question is: is it possible to output on of these three to my SVGA monitor?
I guess the RGB signal is the only one suited for this purpose, so: (how) can
an SCART connector be connected with an (15 pin) VGA connector?

Marcel.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Shadow ROM, What is it?
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:26:39 GMT

In <26610@optima.cs.arizona.edu> jin@cs.arizona.edu (Yu Jin Thio) writes:

>Some of my computers have been set up with Shadow ROM enables, some without.
>Can someone please tell me what this does? Is it meant to enhance performance?

As a general rule, ROM is slow and RAM is fast.  Shadow RAM (or Shadow
ROM) is copying the ROMs to a specially designated area of memory and
then executing the ROM code out of the faster RAMs.  Yes, it is meant
to enhance performance.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: faruque@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Abdullah Faruque,334CH,3752,2654247)
Subject: Re: Crystal speed info required...
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:45:25 GMT

From article <chans.722541405@marsh>, by chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan):
> Gidday all,
> 
> I'd just like to know about the speeds of crystals for required for
> INTEL CPUs. A friend told me that the speed of the crystal should
> *always* be twice the speed of the CPU (eg. 486DX-33 has a crystal
> running at 66 MHz, 386DX-25 => 50 MHz). Is this true for *all*
> motherboards??
> 

No. Actually, all 286 and 386 CPUs need 2X external clock to run at
the rated speed (e.g. a 16Mhz cpu needs 32Mhz clock etc.). In 286 and
386 CPU the external clock is divided by two internally inside the CPU
to get the proper clock. But this is not true for 486 CPUs, which
require only 1X clock (e.g. a 486DX/SX-33Mhz needs a 33Mhz external
clock). But some 486 motherboards (specially those 386/486 upgradable
motherboards) may use a 2X external clock even with a 486 CPU, because
they have to generate 2X clock while using using a 386 CPU. In that
case, they divide the external clock by 2 (normally done by the
chipset or logic circuit on the board) when a 486DX CPU is used,
ruther than putting another separate crystal. Some newer, 486 all
speed motherboard even use just one single crystal and divide it
accordingly depending on the speed of the installed CPU. This is
normally done by jumper settings or in the CMOS setup. So, in theory a
486DX CPU requires only 1X external clock, this is also true for
486DX2 CPUs (in that case the 1X external clock is multiplied by two 
internally inside the CPU to make it run at double the speed of the
486DX counterpart) 

> The question arose when we were trying to figure out why the speed of my
> floppy disk access slowed down after I changed my motherboard (from a
> 386DX-33 to 486DX2-50). Currently, it'll take about 10 seconds to access
> drive A: (Yup, a simple A: takes 10 seconds); in contrast to my 386DX-33
> which took about 1 second (3 seconds for a dir/w A:).
> 
> Could someone shed some light here please??
> 
> Sean

It may be due to a low BUS speed setting in the CMOS. With a 486DX2-50
your motehrboard is running at 25Mhz externally and the BUS speed may
be derived by dividing 25 with 2,3,4 etc. So, select /3 which will
give you close to 8Mhz (standard ISA BUS speed). Also, look for any
setting that relates with I/O wait state in your CMOS and set it to
the lowest possible value. Note: if you are using DR DOS 6.0 then,
this delay in accessing floppy drive is not uncommon. Hope that
helps.

-Faruque
Email: faruque@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
From: fl0p+@andrew.cmu.edu (Frank T Lofaro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: token ring and Gateway 2000
Date: 16 Nov 92 18:10:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.sf2737G00WB59Lq1c_
Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


    I have a similar problem with the Token Ring in my Everex 486/33. If
its running at 33MHz (instead of non-turbo 8MHz, which isn't too useful
:), the token-ring adapter often does not want to initialize. I simply
hacked pctcp.bat and pcs.bat to check errorlevel after the tbootp and to
just keep retrying until it succeeds. Its a disgusting hack, but it
works. I guess it hits the right phase of a timing cycle eventually or
something. Sometimes I've seen it retry quite a few times though.
    So I got it to work, and once up doesn't give me any real problems.
(Well ftpsrv crashes a lot, but that's probably just PC/TCP being
screwy). Still it is very suboptimal to have to hack the batch files to
retry in the face of errors that should not occur on a regular basis. Oh
well, it works well enough. I hope this helps.

\begin {flame of IBM}:

    Why can't IBM make hardware that follows the PC specs and standards,
which IBM themselves started? Why must IBM always do its own thing, and
screw things up? (a great example: the wonderfully incompatible PS/2).
Token-ring could be a lot better, cheaper, and better supported, if one
didn't have to depend on IBM for it. (They are also quite tight-assed
about giving technical docs). Why are IBM Token-Ring cards, by the
supposed wizards of compatibility themselves, IBM, one of the most
incompatible items for PC's? (It won't even work *at all* in some PC's
I've heard.). Sigh.

\end {flame of IBM}
From: tkhut@ap.cl.msu.edu (Scott Karre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: How good is the Diamond Stealth VRAM video card?
Date: 16 Nov 92 23:35:40 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University, USA


     I just purchased the Diamond Stealth VRAM card on the recommendation
of a few friends, and am thus far pleased with it.  However, I don't yet
know just How good the card really is, compared to cards like the Diamond
Speedstar 24X or the ATI graphics Ultra.  Is it as fast as the Speedstar
or ATI Ultra?  Are there any special features of this board that perhaps
they don't document well in the manual?  I noticed that when I set the 
Stealth to run in it's  alternate timing scheme, it crashed my computer.
Is there any way to make this option accessable through, say, a TSR or
new driver?  Any advise and information would be greatly appreciated!

	Thanks,

		Kris

	     " That which does not kill us, makes us stronger... "

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*  Kris Kortright  ( tkhut@ap.cl.msu.edu or kortrigh@cem.cemvax.msu.edu )     *
*  Research : Laser analytical chemistry under Dr. Gary Blanchard             *
*  Depatment of Chemistry  -  Michigan State University  -  E. Lans. Michigan *
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: Fall Comdex - Nov. 16 to Nov. 20
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:26:26 GMT

Hello.

What's the best way to find out what's going on their?
(besides attending)

I'm interested in the OS/2 stuff and new hardware.

I've heard that PK(un)ZIP v2.0 will finally be released at Comdex, don't
know if it will, or what versions will be released.

Anyways...guess that's it...thanks.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ahusain@ad-22.Naitc.Com (Afsar Husain)
Subject: Re: Adaptec's phone number?
Organization: AC Nielsen Co., Bannockburn IL
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 15:39:23 GMT

In article <1563@yetti.UUCP> frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner) writes:
>Hello,
>
>As the title says, I need Adaptec's phone numebr. If possible 1-800.
>
>THanks
>
Following is the list of Adaptec's phone number that I have.
      408-945-7727       Adaptec  BBS
      408-946-8600       Adaptec  General
      408-945-2550       Adaptec  Tech Support

Hope this helps.




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Geoffrey A. Coulter)
Subject: Re: WindowsNT: which SCSI-II-adaptor to use?
Reply-To: gac2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 07:20:42 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.220203.233@csghsg5a.bitnet> lmebold@csghsg5a.bitnet writes:
>Hi all
>
>I'm just about to change from the IDE- to the SCSI-system.
>I want to buy a SCSI-II Harddisk and an EISA-SCSI-II-adaptor.
>
>The AMI Eisa Caching SCSI hostadaptor or the Mylex DCE376 (is
>this an SCSI-II adaptor, too?) seem to be very fast controllers
>under MS-DOS or Novell. But how about WindowsNT? Will this
>adaptors be that fast with the NTFS as well? As I plan to run
>WindowsNT as soon as it's final release appears I want to be
>sure i get an adaptor which is really fast for the NTFS.
>Of course, any recommendation for another SCSI-II-adaptor
>will be appreciated.
>
>
>I plan to get a fixed disk which has a capacity of about
>500Mb. What manufacturer would you suggest? I think that
>fixed disk from either Quantum, Conner, Maxtor or Fujitsu
>should all be good. Can anyone confirm/deny this or
>make any suggestions?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Luke
>

In host adapters: forget about the cached adapters.  Go with something
like an AHA-1742B.  The money spent on the controller's cache will be
better spent on RAM, and its possible that a hardware cache could
actually _hurt_ overall system performance, so would be money down the
drain.  Furthermore, I'm an OS/2 user, and have really come to
appreciate the fact that not all cards are equally well supported :-(,
so you probably want to go with something will absolutely, positively
be supported, like an Adaptec board.  With other boards, you may be
taking a risk.

Good luck,

Geoffrey Coulter
gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu
From: aoki@risk.stanford.edu (ikuro aoki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: EISA Local bus? Motherboard suggestions?
Date: 20 Nov 92 18:23:24
Organization: Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
NNTP-Posting-Host: risk.stanford.edu
In-reply-to: matess@gsusgi1.gsu.edu's message of Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:28:17 GMT

Hi Elizabeth,

  >>Is there an VESA EISA local bus?  If not, why not? 

A.I.R. (2188 Del Franco St. SanJose 95131: 408-428-0800) has
a 486 EISA VESA localbus motherboard.

They also have a VL-bus graphic card(S3 86C805chipset base), 
a VL-bus SCSI card and a VL-bus Ethernet(i82596/503 chipset base).

Unfortunately, the graphic card is not avairable now because of a
shortage of the S3 chip.
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp)
Subject: Re: Gateway 2000 and ATI Technologies - The scoop
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 03:03:52 GMT

In article <TIM.92Nov19101442@jake.boxhill.com> tim@boxhill.com (Timothy Jones) writes:
>Gateway will sell an upgrade package for the ATI GUP which includes an extra
>meg of VRAM and the 68875 RAMDAC for $125 beginning 11/30.
>
>Call their add ons and upgrades department at 800-252-3333 then to order.
>
>Tim
>--
>Timothy Jones                                           e-mail: tim@boxhill.com
>Box Hill Systems Corporation                                voice: 212-989-4455
>161 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10013               fax: 212-989-6817

I don't know about any one else, but my Father got his Gateway
486DX2/66V about a week and a half ago.  I believe there is a 30 money back
guarantee?  He is planning on shipping the system back if they don't
upgrade his Ati Ultra Pro for free.  I suggest everyone else that is
within their 30 days to do the same. It is not fair that Gateway advertises
the Ultra Pro controller and ships one that doesn't meet specs.  If it
comes to it, we will ship the system back and buy one the has the upgraded
card from Gateway for the same price.

Sean Harp
University of Tennessee
Organisation: European Space Operation Centre (E.S.O.C)
Date: Wednesday, 18 Nov 1992 17:22:15 CET
From: Karl Keyte <KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SCSI, CD-ROM, Speedstore 24x, ...

I'm planning a major upgrade of my PC in preparation for serious OS's
which should be out fairly soon.  I have a few questions on my provisionally
planned hardware - can anyone answer them, or give me comments...


  1.  Apaptec 1542B SCSI interface

      a.  What's in the "kit" over and above the base board?  Do I need
          the software if the OS claims to support this card?  Won't
          the drivers be in the OS?  Solaris 2.0 specifically.

      b.  Does this controller cache?  What makes it much more
          expensive that some of the cheaper ones?  Some are MUCH less
          expensive.

      c.  How could a system be configured to boot from a SCSI drive?
          ROMs seem not to know about them...Sorry ignorance on this one.


  2.  CD-ROM

      a.  I'm looking for a SCSI CD-ROM drive, preferably (but not
          essentially) esternal.  Any ideas?

      b.  Some CD-ROM drives specify different capacities.  How can
          this work?  Does it mean a lower capacity device (like many
          SCSI models) is limited in the CDs it can read?


  3.  Speedstore 24X graphics card

      a.  Is is VESA compatible?

      b.  Is it fast enough for X-Windows work?


Any other general comments about "gotchas" or "bewares" would be VERY much
appreciated.  I'm planning to upgrade to a 50 MHz 486.  Don't really know
if I should go for local-bus - comments appreciated on this too.  Problem
seems to be that one is then limited to the local-bus controllers which
don't seem to be as supported or flexible as the (E)ISA bus varieties.

Please answer directly to KKEYTE@ESOC.BITNET   If there is enough useful
response I'll post back a summary.


Thanks.  I'm grateful for your help.


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