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From: etobkkc@pluto.eto.ericsson.se (Karlsen Bjorn)
Subject: Have I done something stupid? (a SIMM question)
Reply-To: etobkkc@hisoy.etn.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AS
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 06:34:59 GMT

I have a 486DX-33MHz with 4MB RAM (4*1MB*9). Recently I got 1MB
for free (4*256kB*3) and put them into my PC. 

However, the new SIMMs are marked KMM59256AN-10. Does the "10"
indicate that they are 100ns SIMMs? The 4MB already in my PC is
70ns.

The PC seems to work as normal (I had to put the new SIMMs in bank 0),
but I wonder if the new SIMMs are too slow. If so, would any errors
be trapped by the parity error check (which I've enabled) or would
the files I'm editing/saving be destroyed without me noticing it?

To summarize: If my PC *seems* to work ok, is the new SIMM's speed
ok, or can I expect errors in saved files?

-KKC-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ken@lynx.csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
Subject: I/O address of clock on multi-I/O card wanted
Reply-To: ken@syd.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:30:50 GMT

I've got a nondescript XT multi-I/O card (1P, 2S, FD, clock) with only
the name KM-516 on it. There's a MM58167 clock chip and battery on the
card. However I don't know the I/O address of the clock.  By looking at
all I/O ports with IOVIEW I found the top nybble of port 277 was
changing rapidly. My guess is that this is the 1/1000 second register.
I also guess that I have to write to another port to select the clock
register to read.  Where would that be? Does anyone know for sure?

If you have a full set of jumper setting for this card, that would be
even better. I had to figure out the serial port jumpers by following
traces. :-(

	Thanks, Ken
	ken@syd.dit.csiro.au
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From: tsen0001@student.tc.umn.edu ()
Subject: Re: Symphony chipset utilities
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:50:11 GMT

In article <C1Ez1H.KH2@wang.com> pvr@wang.com () writes:
>	Symphony chipset support utilities
>
>	By Peter Reilley  pvr@wiis.wang.com
> 
	[Some stuff deleted]

>              I don't know the exact meaning of each bit's 
>description, you would have to study the data book more than I have. 
>
	Where can one buy, get or borrow the data book about the Symphony
Chipset?  calling the Chipset company?  I used the symph_wr.exe to change
bit 5 of Register 2 (clock control) and can't change it from 0 to 1.  It is
not the problem of the program, the program symph_wr is fine; it seems that
the Chipset has problem... 

Thanks a lot for the great programs.

-Maoee

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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: stiction solved... but wait!
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:59:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan19.220618.27146@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:

>Even though it sounds like it is spinning up, it may not be coming all
>the way up to speed.  Then when the computer does POST, it thinks the
>thing isn't spinning up and hits it with current to start it.


Hmmmmm

How does the CPU or motherboard control the power supply, because
this is what would be necessary for the power supply to "hit it with
current". 




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From: omar@osf.org (Mark Marino)
Subject: Is the ATI Graphics Ultra upgradable to the GU Pro?
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:43:25 GMT

I really need to get a graphics card that supports at least HiColor if not
True Color technology.  My computer is equipped with an ATI Graphics Ultra
which does not support HiColor.  

Does ATI offer a reasonable upgrade path to the Graphics Ultra Pro or am I
going to have to shell out for another card that supports HiColor?

If the latter is true, can anyone recommend a good HiColor card?

Thanks in advance,
Mark


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From: Kyd@doc.ic.ac.uk (K Y Doh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help : Installation of seagate harddisk
Date: 28 Jan 1993 16:43:48 -0000
Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: oak8.doc.ic.ac.uk


I have a PC 486DX and with a conner hard disk ( model no : CP30174E ) installed
on it . Now I have bought a seagate ( model no : ST1480A ) and wanted to installed
on it .

Is there any body can tell me the jumper setting on the seagate hard disk so that
I can take it as a slave hard disk as my conner one be the master?

Also could anybody tell me is there any public archive site that I can get
any information about it. If so please send me a e-mail to tell me.

My e-mail address : kyd@doc.ic.ac.uk

Thank in advance.



					Thomas
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From: mathias@solomon.technet.sg (Mathias Koerber)
Subject: IPC/Escom Notebook COM2
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:47:24 GMT

[ Article crossposted from sci.electronics ]
[ Author was Mathias Koerber ]
[ Posted on Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:34:58 GMT ]

I bought an Escom Blackmate IV 33MHz Notebook in Germany. The same
thing is distributed here in Singapore by IPC, albeit with only
25Mhz, called Porta PC. It has a funny COM2 port. It is a very small
15-pin connector. IPC sells trackballs to be connected there, including
one that has a builtin Fax-Modem. But I want to connect some other
serial mouse there. So I called IPC to find out what the pin-layout is
and whether I can get a connector to plug in there. I got the
pin-description, but no-one seems to have spare connectors so that I
can make my own converter to 9-pin :-(

Here is the Pin-Out:

	1	GND
	2	SYS_STAT
	3	DSR#
	4	RTS#
	5	CTS#
	6	RI#
	7	not used
	8	GND
	9	+5V in
	10	DTR#
	11	DCD#
	12	TXD
	13	RXD
	14	SPK_DATA
	15	GND

My problem is now to get the connector. It is *very* small, about 2cm in
length with 15 pins in 1 row. I had a sneak look at the IPC trackball,
and the connector had something like S15P..... stamped onto it, what I
guess means sub-15-pin... but I lost that piece of paper.

Could anyone outthere give me a tip on how to get hold of that piece?
ESCOM in Germany also was no help :-(.

Thx alot

Mathias

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From: jgrape@coos.dartmouth.edu (Johan A. Grape)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SIPP question
Date: 25 Jan 93 19:23:47 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH


A quick one.....

If you install SIPPS the wrong way, are they fried?

In other words - ooops, or no oooops.

Regards
jgrape@coos.dartmouth.edu
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From: goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL)
Subject: I need Norton SI v6.0 scores for all 80x86 chips!!
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:35:49 GMT

Hello.

I need a Norton SI v6.0 for all 80x86 and compatbile chips.

From 8088 to 486dx2-66.

Please email me if you have a result.

Thanks.
From: feg@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (forrest.e.gehrke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ZEOS 36-bit SIMM info
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:36:53 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T

In article <C19JAq.D5v@unx.sas.com> sasbge@ant.unx.sas.com writes:
>
>
>The bottom line is this:  ZEOS advertises systems that are expandable
>to 64MB.  They currently tell me that they cannot provide me with
>the newest "single-sided" 16MB SIMMs and have no idea when they will
>get them.  Some folks call this type of practice, "bait and switch".
>I am not going that far, I just wanted everyone on the net to know
>what to expect.
>
>BTW, these are the same style SIMMs that Gateway uses.  I wonder
>if *their* motherboards have the SIMM slots correctly spaced?
>
>CAVEAT EMPTOR!
>

You are making this sound like some nefarious activity on the
part of ZEOS.  Yes, your PC is CAPABLE of 64KB memory.  That
doesn't mean that ZEOS guarantees they can supply it if they
can not get delivery themselves.

I have been after distributors for several months to even get a
delivery quote on 16MB 72pin SIMMS without success.  They simply
aren't available and as best they can find out, no USA mfr.
makes them yet.

You can get the same answer from Gateway.  The only difference
with them is that they will take back the 4MB simms WHENEVER
they can replace with 16MB simms.

BTW, you can thank your USA Dept. of Commerce for this situation
because they responded to a complaint from that outfit in
Idaho who TRIES to make these memory chips that Korean
suppliers were dumping.  So what happens?  The price goes up,
supplies shrink, and the Koreans sell their stuff to countries
who don't screw around with them.

Forrest Gehrke feg@dodger.att.com
From: calloway@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Frank Calloway)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:13:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Have I done something stupid? (a SIMM question)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

I'd say if it works reliably, then use it.  From what I've read, the 
various speeds of memory chips are selected by testing large batches
and then labeling the chips appropriately.  If a manufacturer needs
slow chips to sell but has only faster ones on hand, it's easy to
simply label the fast ones as being slower than they are and sell
them.

I needed four more megabytes of RAM for my 386-33 but had only 80 ns.
chips on hand (the first four megabytes was 70 ns.).  The first set
of four that I tried gave me parity errors under Windows 3.1, but
the second has worked fine for several months.

Frank Calloway
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From: mjh@crosfield.co.uk (michael hember)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! Trying to upgrade memory.
Date: 20 Jan 93 08:48:57 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.


I have a 486-66, ALI-M1409 chipset motherboard with 1991 AMI bios
and have experienced the same problem only worse....

It had 4 1Meg SIMMs in bank 0 and everything was fine with this config
I then added 4 1Mx9 70nS SIMMs in bank 1 and the system now tells me that
I only have 1Meg of RAM and no extended memory.
If I take the SIMMs out of bank 1 it goes back to 4Meg again
There are no DIP switches or jumpers on the board for memory config.

The new SIMMs look slightly different to the old SIMMS in as much as the
old SIMMs have 3 chips all the same size with 8 legs on each side
2off Pt no.- HM514400AS7
1off Pt no.- HM511000AJP7

new SIMMs have 3 chips 2 large, 1 small with 4 legs on each side
2off Pt No.- M514256A-80J   (OKI)
1off Pt No.- M51C256-80     (OKI)

Lets hope someone out there is clever enough to solve our problems

regards

Mike Hember.

email - mjh@crosfield.co.uk    Tel ++44-0442-230000 x3221
From: jkelty@unl.edu (john kelty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Colorado TRAKKER external JUMBO tape drives
Date: 21 Jan 1993 20:36:59 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: unlinfo.unl.edu

Thanks to all for posts, comments about CO TRAKKER JUMBO tape unit and
software.  I found that explicitly using the CONFIG program to turn 
off LIM fixed my problems with formatted and that leaving the 
simultaneous disk drive ON was faster than turning it off, once the 
LIM was fixed.  On 386SX 16MHz machine took about 58 min. to format.  
I formatted 8 SONY 250 MEG (compressed 2120s) without any problems.
But it sure didn't work with the LIM on 8-& (rasberries).

Thanks again.
-jkelty
unlinfo unl physics
From: jmeyers@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jeff Meyers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SpeedStar 24X drivers - ready for FTP
Date: 23 Jan 93 00:51:13 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: psycho.ecst.csuchico.edu

The latest version of the SpeedStar 24X drivers for Win 3.1 are now at
   wuarchive.wustl.edu  in directory /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/windows

The drivers are version 2.03 and were uploaded to America OnLine on
Thursday, Jan 21 by Diamond Computer Systems' Customer Support.


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From: genrad@philmtl.philips.ca (Genrad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: REQUEST: Info on AST Turbolaser printer
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:04:11 GMT
Organization: Philips Electronics Limited, St. Laurent QC, Canada

Hello,

	I am attempting to get an AST TurboLaser 800 laser printer oper-
ational. This hasn't  been used in a while, and the people who have used 
it no longer work here. On power up, the printer seems to be powering up,
and the symbol that indicates that the printer is heating up is blinking.
After a while, it goes on solid. Pulling out the papaer cartridge or 
opening up any of the access panels results in a cover open indication 
on the front panel. As far as this goes, the printer seems to be OK. 
It does not, however print out a status page. I have the following
questions:

	1. How do I get it to print a status page, or doesn't it do this?

	2. As far as is known, this is a Ricoh printer engine, the R4080. 
	We have many supplies for a Ricoh R4081. Can these supplies be 
        used with this printer?

	3. What type of printer is this? Is it a Lasejet of any type,
	Postscript, or other any printer usable with Windows or OS/2?


	Any information about this printer, and especially maintenence 
for itwould be appreciated. Please reply by E-mail or post to this news 
group. Thank you in advance.


						Regards,
						Gus
From: sms@cs.utexas.edu (Stephen Mark Sanderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: RE: VGA/IDE and RLL/IDE coexistence
Date: 28 Jan 1993 13:44:20 -0600
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cash.cs.utexas.edu

  David, I am running a WD1006-SR2 RLL controller with 2 Seagate harddrives
right now (a 277R and a 157R), in conjunction with a Diamond Stealth VRAM
video card.  The video card and HD are not having any problems coexisting...
what kind of video card are you <attempting to> use?  Does it's BIOS try
to use the same memory space as the HD controller?  I believe that the WD
default BIOS address is $CC00, and if your card tries to use that address
space, it will of course not work.  Make sure they use different addresses.
  As for RLL living with IDE, there were articles a few days/a week ago to
that efect, and the results were positive.  It *should* be possible, and 
someone out there has done it.  <Whoever it was, help out here, eh?>
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From: tici@pbinfo-r.uni-paderborn.de (Thomas Thissen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Olivetti D2000 - Transferport Pinout wanted
Date: 22 Jan 1993 18:46:14 +0100
Organization: Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: pbinfo-r.uni-paderborn.de
Summary: Transfer-port-pinout for Pocket-Database Calculator Olivetti D2000
Keywords: transfer pinout database olivetti d2000



I just bought a very nice Pocket-Database-Calculator Model

 Olivetti D2000 (64kb)

It has a data-transfer-port to exchange data with another D2000 or a PC.

Does someone know the Pinout of the Transferport ? (And perhaps
the protocoll used to transfer ?)

(I want do backup/restore the Max. 64 kb to/from my PC)

Thanx for any help  :)

Greetings

   Thomas

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From: underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe)
Subject: Re: XGA vs. VGA Monitors
Organization: Miners for a Heart of Gold
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 07:49:28 GMT

Hi.

I have a set of monitors that work with VGA cards for the IBM-PC and clones.
If I buy XGA cards, do I need to upgrade the monitors to something else?

Please send your replies via e-mail.  I will post a summary.

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From: dittman@skitzo.dseg.ti.com (Eric Dittman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Need help with 486DX33 high memory layout
Date: 20 Jan 93 21:24:48 CDT
Organization: Texas Instruments Component Test Facility

I am trying to increase the size and number of high memory regions
on my system using QEMM386.  The motherboard is a Contaq, and the
BIOS is by AMI (dated 12/12/91).  I also have a Diamond Speedstar 24X
and an Always IN-2000 SCSI controller (set to D800, but I can change
that, if necessary).  I've used Manifest and LOADHI to look at the
memory available and used, but I'm not sure what is really already
used and what isn't (and can therefore be remapped by QEMM386).  I
have used PC clones for a long time, and am comfortable with them,
but I have never had a need to mess with the high memory before.
What I'd like is some general pointers and hints to figure out the
actual memory map of the system.
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From: fuad@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Turnando Fuad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Gateway 66V Problems/Solutions
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:46:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucdavis.21781
Reply-To: fuad@madrone.eecs.ucdavis.edu (Turnando Fuad)
Organization: CIPIC

Well I've had my fair share of Gateway disappointments over the last 3 weeks.
I've got my system in a sort of usable mode right now. Let me share some of the
problems and solutions I have dealt with.

My config.	Gateway 66V 8M	64K cache
		With Ultrastor 34F(local bus SCSI controller) and Toshiba HD.
		Proaudio Spectrum Card
		NE2000(for use with FTP Software)

Borland Brief 3.1:
   Brief causes a divide by zero error and causes the system to occasionally
hang. Borland has a patch. With the patch, Brief works in DOS but hangs in
Windows startup. Borland is looking into it. Get the patch via Borland's
Fax server. 1-800-822-4269	Doc #1047

QEMM:
   Have encountered QEMM problems with NE2000 software. Windows complains of
not having enough memory. There's plenty. Use HIMEM and Windows comes up fine.
   Mach32 install program hangs in custom monitor mode if QEMM is used. It 
works fine with HIMEM.

Proaudio Spectrum Card:
   If the DOS driver is loaded, Windows consistently complains of corrupt swap
file. Windows will come up but will not allow permanent swap space. Exclude
the sound driver(in DOS) and Windows works fine with card.

ATI Ultra Pro card:
   If your screen is not being refreshed properly and lines across the screens
in both DOS and Windows mode, you may have a bad card. It started on mine with
a small line across my cursor and then it got progressively worse as I would
lose items on menus. Gateway sent me a replacement card. And it works fine now
with the exception of Mach32 conflicts with QEMM.

For those of us who like the Gateway system in "general" but have had no 
support. I suggest a problem/solution posting of this nature so you won't have
to waste time waiting for Gateway TS(if you get thru). I have suggested to 
Gateway's Customer Service and Tech Support that they make available some
incompatibility issues and solutions(workarounds) available to those of us
who have these systems so as to alleviate the support problem. So far there's
been no response. Until Gateway publishes such a document, I encourage Gateway
users to post any problems and solutions that they have. So that it would save
all of us time in trying to figure out the fix(with no support from Gateway) 
ourselves.

I think Gateway should issue an apology to its current customers explaining the
shipping situation and tech support situation. I believe Gateway owes its
customers an official statement. They need to do some damage control before it
gets out of hand. These support problems are SIMPLY NOT ACCEPTABLE to business
users who depend on the systems for their work. NO MATTER WHAT THE EXCUSE IS.
Otherwise, their major advertisements will be for naught shortly.

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