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From: jsicolo@mipos2.intel.com (James Sicolo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: questions about ATI UP RAMDAC chip and # of colors
Date: 8 Jan 93 16:59:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA


1.	What software takes advantage of the RAMDAC
	chip in the ATI UP? If I buy it, how do I benefit 
	from it? 

2.	Also, when I am in 640x480 64K color mode,
	windows reports the number of device colors
	as 4096, not 64K. Any ideas why? Is it right to 
	say that the windows drivers don't support use
	of all the colors that the hardware allows?
		
3.	Also, how can I get information about programming 
	the graphics card directly? I know this is 
	probably a good way to screw up my monitor, but
	I would like to know about it anyway.



				Jim
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From: ozcomert@wam.umd.edu (John Ozcomert)
Subject: Re: Gateway2000 486DX-33 ??
Keywords: Gateway
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:36:55 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.180543.14981@clark.dgim.doc.ca> tennesen@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (Andy Tenne-Sens) writes:
        (majority of article deleted)
>
>(What will really burn me up is if, as soon as I receive my 
>system, I see the price on the 486DX2-66 dropped in the very 
>next issue of PC Magazine.  They should be about due for a price
>decrease.)   
>
Actually, you and other GW owners and prospective customers should be
aware that they have a thirty day price protection policy whereby they
refund the difference to you if the price drops after you buy it.  This
doesn't excuse delays in delivery, of course, but may offer some piece
of mind about money.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rich@cctwin.ee.ntu.edu.tw (Rich Tsai)
Subject: New Firmware for the 1542B.
Organization: NTUTaiwan
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:30:08 GMT
Newsreader: MS Windows WinVN

Greeting,

             I saw someone here posting a message about the firmware of the
        Adaptec 1542B taht can partition the disk capacity more than 1 GB.

        Can I fint this file in the anonymous FTP site ? or someone kindnessly
        to send me that file.

        The AdapTec BBS is too far for me to logon ....

        Thanks,

Rich.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
From: llamas@itd.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Winston Llamas)
Subject: cd-rom,scsi,ide
Reply-To: llamas@itd.nrl.navy.mil
Organization: Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:07:13 GMT

I am looking for a good (and inexpensive cd-rom drive) to use with my system,
which currently works with both DOS/Windows and OS/2.  Does anyone have
a recommendation?  Also, what is a good scsi controller to use with the
cr-rom drive?  Adaptec?  Future Domain?  Which models have what features?

Also, I am looking for a fast IDE controller.  Any recommendations?

(Inexpensive products of high quality preferred).

Thanks.
Winston
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From: DonH@cup.portal.com (Don - Hirschfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Tape Backup for graphics files?
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 16:05:24 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
Distribution: usa

There is no problem selectively backing up and restoring files to a tape
drive. I have a 250 meg QIC drive in my PC. Any major tape backup program
allows selective options. I generate many 1 meg Targa files and back just them
up to a separate tape. BTW, I have a new WangDat 1300XL SCSI 2 GIG tape
backup (5.25") which I'm trying to sell for $950/offer. Leave E-mail if 
interested.
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From: isc10085@nusunix1.nus.sg (NG YENG YONG)
Subject: Re: SIMM query
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 08:55:28 GMT

Albert Chu (jacklord@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu) wrote:
: Forgive this newbie question, but . . .
: I'm looking to increase the amount of RAM in my 386-33.  It uses the standard
: 3 chip SIMMs, but I don't know the speed (ns) of the existing SIMMs.  What
: possible problems could arise if the speeds don't match from one bank to 
: another, and if it is not advisable to do this, is there anyway to determine
: the speed of the existing SIMMs (besides calling the vendor, since I have
: acquired my system second hand, and the previous owner has no clue)?

Hello, you can find out the speed of the SIMMS from the chip itself. On
the first row of codes, the last 2 digits indicate the speed of the
chips. For Eg, 70 means 70 ns, 12 means 120 ns, 10 means 10 ns and so
on.

Different speeds of SIMMs on different banks should not pose any problem
to the system, but the RAM read/write wait state must be set to the
slower RAMs.



Best regards,
Steve


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From: zonnevel@dutiws.twi.tudelft.nl (B.J.Zonneveld.tel-015-622622)
Subject: Advantage of 256Kb over 64Kb Cache with 386?
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:03:35 GMT

Hi, I want to know what the improvement is of using 256kb cache in
stead of 64kb on my 384/40'er. Is it a noticeable speed improvement?
If anyone has any experience or read something could you please
email me personally.

I am thankfull already :-)
Greetings, Bartt
From: zaphod@src4src.linet.org (Steve Wechsler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Magtron hard disks - heard of them?
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:21:37 GMT
Organization: The Source for Source

In article <1993Jan6.042908.18557@ccds3.ntu.edu.tw> rich@cctwin.ee.ntu.edu.tw (Rich Tsai) writes:
#In article <C0D8yn.7rw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) says:
##
##A place called Source Electronics is selling these dirt cheap, and
##they say that they are new.  I have certainly never heard of them,
##but for $799 for a 760 MB and $1199 for a 1.2 GB, you have to at
##least look at them! (SCSI of course) I think that comes with only a
##120 day warranty but I imagine you can pay more and get up to a 1yr.
##(Actually the 1.2GB drive comes with a 1 yr warranty)
#                The price is in Taiwan is 1106 US$ for the 1.2 GB. I have heard that
#         the company that manufactor this brand of disk is closed and now we
#         see are the stocks they have. Maybe no warranty ...., So you need to
#         take care when you buy them.

If you're still interested in purchasing these drives, D.O.S.
Marketing Corp is selling the 1.2 GB drive for $875 with a 3 month
warranty, and $1000 for the same drive with a 1 year warranty.
Their number is 212-226-1626

Personally, I think you'd be better off spending a few hundred more
and buying a name-brand drive.  For example, East Coast Electronics
(508-683-0339) and Dirt Cheap Drives (800-872-6007) both sell the
Toshiba SCSI 438FB (877MB/12ms/3.5"/half height) for $1050.

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From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: EISA bus speed with ISA cards onboard?
Date: 13 Jan 93 00:12:05 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park

In article <1idmrsINN6c3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> al885@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerard Pinzone) writes:
>
>In a previous article, pablo@acsu.buffalo.edu (Juan P. Abonia) says:
>
>>Could someone tell me how the bus speed of the an EISA machine is affected when
>>an ISA card is installed in an expansion slot.  I have heard that the bus
>>defaults to the speed of the slowest card on the bus.  I've seen Mhz ratings
>>of 8 or 8.33.  Thanks for your help.
>>
>EISA is locked at 8 MHz just like ISA.  If you want a fast bus, you will have
>to go to VESA Localbus or PCI.

EISA is not "locked" at anything, it depends on your motherboard.  Same with
ISA.  I am running my bus at 12mhz (I would go higher but then my video card
gets strange).

Yeah, yeah, I know, EISA specs say 8.33hz, but that doesn't mean its locked
at 8.33.
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 10:20:13 EST
From: Jose Agustin Lopez Bueno <LOPEZJ@EVALUN11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help

Hi all.
    Could somebody help me with the configuration of a Calpak internal
modem? (I have a 486SX clone) I have tried it during three weeks without
success. I have a terrible DESPAIR.
                    HELP, HELP ME PLEASE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rene@hal.et.tudelft.nl (Rene Bodenstaff)
Subject: Re: HELP! magnetised screen
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 21:39:00 GMT

In article <ah.726429974@dolphin.doc.ic.ac.uk>, ah@doc.ic.ac.uk (Angelo Haritsis) writes:
> A speaker magnet created a large blue (on white background) spot on my SVGA
> colour monitor. How can I bring it back to normal - can I de-magnetise it
> somehow ?
> Thanks.
> -- 
> Angelo Haritsis, Applied Systems Section
> s-mail: Dpt of Computing,Imperial College, 180 Queen's Gate, London SW7 2BZ, UK
> e-mail: ah@doc.ic.ac.uk - tel:+44 71 589 5111 (x7511) - fax:+44 71 581 8024

  In front of your screen, right behind the glass, there is a fine metal
  mesh used for producing the right colors on your screen. As you know,
  there are three electron-guns in your CRT, each producing one of the
  colors red, green and blue. Now you have held a magnet in front of your
  screen, the mesh has been disformed, and the electrons that come from
  the various guns are directed incorrectly. This causes the screen to turn
  in a particular color (in your case blue).

  To put it short: Your CRT is fucked up really badly!!! And because you are
  not able to open the tube to straighten the mesh again, it will be difficult
  to get things ok again. You can try the following:

  1 -- Get a good demagnetizer, the same that is used for demagnetizing
       cassette decks.

  2 -- Use a magnet and wave this in front of your CRT. It is important
       to create a random magnetic field, so you have to move the magnet 
       up and down randomly. Start nearby and slowly walk back, constantly 
       waving the magnet (it sounds like voodoo magic, but it is the same 
       way you have to use a cassette deck demagentizer).

  BUT: THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU START DEMAGNETIZING YOUR CRT WITH A BIG
       MAGNET, YOU COULD MAKE THINGS WORSE!!! PLEASE DON'T B/FLAME ME
       IF YOUR MULTI-THOUSAND MONITOR IS RUINED FOR LIFE AFTER DEMAGNETIZING.
         
  (ps: way back, i used to go to our local tv-set store, with a huge magnet 
       in my pocket. after a while some tv's showed funny purple and blue
       spots all over the screen. i'm lucky they never caught me :-) )
      
       ---< Sonic says: "more haste is more speed" >---
From: spira@panix.com (Greg "Sarcasm Is A Way Of Life" Spira)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Gateway vs. Austin questions
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:56:49 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boo!

In <C0D9DF.9q5@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:

>I bought my last Gateway system from them about 1.5 yrs ago and
>I've been talking to them about a new 66V system and have noticed
>something - they will NOT lower their price!  The guy I used to deal
>with would cave in with free shipping without me even trying!  This
>guy didn't seem to want to move at all.  I'm going to try to call my
>old salesman back and see if maybe it was just him, but has anyone
>else noticed that they are more steadfast in their pricing? (I have
>bought about 3 systems from that salesman over the years and always
>got at least $200 off the total delivered price)

As far as I know, they will now not move their price.  The reason is
what you said below.  

>One more thing - the lead time on the 66DX2 systems custom
>configured is *3 weeks* !!! Jeez.  

The lead time is so long because they can't keep up with demand at the
price they're at now.  It would be kind of silly to lower their prices
when they can sell all they can make at the stated price.

But there's actually another reason for the no-haggling policy: Gateway
is so busy and so hard to reach that management feels that allowing
haggling would only make the situation worse, because then each salesman
would end  up spending even more time with each customer and there would
be even more busy signals.

Greg 
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From: pastor@prc.unisys.com (Jon Pastor)
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra PRO New Drivers (build 53) 
Organization: not much...
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:06:55 GMT

The build 53 driver was uploaded by some kind person to ftp.cica.indiana.edu 
(in the ../win3/uploads directory).  I happened to be talking to Gateway tech
support last night, and I asked about it.  The tech said that they'd just had
a long meeting about ATI  drivers that morning, and they have now released
build 50, meaning it's on the Gateway BBS after passing Gateway's QA.  He said
that they *did* have to fix it up some, and that Gateway does not officially
recommend using ATI's beta drivers.

I have trouble getting onto Gateway's BBS, and it's a long-distance call from
here; could someone who lives close enough that it's not an expensive call, or
someone with WATS, put it out on an FTP site?

Thanks.
From: morgan@dl5000.bc.edu (Morgan Stair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: P5 chip and upgrading to VESA motherboard
Date: 12 Jan 93 21:38:25 GMT
Distribution: all
Organization: Institute for Space Research, Boston College


  I just got a new 486DX-33 ISA motherboard.  The dealer I bought it
from will let me upgrade it to a LocalBus motherboard for about $100
more, but he recommends that I stick with what I have because the
Local Bus motherboards will NOT work with the P5 chip.

  It sounds like a bunch of crap to me, but I'd like to know for sure.
Even if the P5 is 64bit, the VESA standard is upward compatable to
64bit.

  Are there VESA motherboards to stay away from because of this?

  Will the P5 plug and play in a 486DX-33 motherboard?

  If it will plug and play in a 486DX-33, why won't it work in a VESA?

  Has anyone heard / can anyone guess one way or another about this?

Morgan
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: J056600@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Do they think we're THAT dumb??
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 93 12:27:24 PST

   I just saw an amusing advertisement for a Bay Area company which claims to
supply "free 287/387 co-processors with purchase of a basic system."

   Free?  They sell a 486SX/20 motherboard and CPU for $190, and a 386/40 for
$170.  Note that this doesn't include the 387.  When you go to a "basic system"
the 387 is included.  Interestingly, the "basic system" with a 486SX/20 is
$348; for the 386/40, it's $378.

   Why is the 386/40 system $30 more than the 486SX when the MB & CPU is $20
*less*?  Must be the so-called "free" 387.  What a ripoff.

   Anyone who is currently in the market for a new computer should be on the
lookout for scams like this.


Tim Irvin
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From: gbrooksh@comanche.ess.harris.com (Greg Brookshire)
Subject: Re: Looking for comments on GateWay..
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:12:17 GMT
Reply-To: gbrooksh@comanche.ess.harris.com
Organization: Harris Corporation, Government Aerospace Systems Division


I'm considering buying a 486 machine by mail order, but know nothing about
some of the companies I see advertised in Computer Shopper.

Does anybody have any comments on a company called GateWay?


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From: asklingl@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Andreas Klingler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: XT Keyboard on an AT?
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:37:25 GMT
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

I got an old XT keyboard for free and would like to connect it to my 386 since
the keys are in a better arangement to run UNIX than on my AT keyboard.
So I'd like to know if there is some kind of simple hack I can apply to it
to get it work.

---
Andreas Klingler
asklingl@informatik.uni-erlangen.de
       I'd love to help you out... Which way did you come in?
From: f88hv@efd.lth.se (Henrik Vallgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Could we split this newsgroup ?
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:33:25 GMT
Reply-To: f88hv@efd.lth.se
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

I suggest that the following groups be created:

comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.drive

A lot of the discussion in this newsgroup is about
the latest drivers for a particular video card or
compatibility problems with a hard drive controller.

I think it'd be easier to handle the wealth of
information if it where split into more groups.

Henrik Vallgren
f88hv@efd.lth.se
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From: cirris@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Keyboard lockup (HELP!)
Date: 11 Jan 93 07:29:04 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

Howdy all,
	I am having trouble with a keyboard lock up on a 386 SX with VGA
This is probably not the Shift key problem, since the entire keyboard fails
and can only be reset upon rebooting.  The mouse will stay active.  The
failsafe  way to get the lockup is to play tetris under windows.  They Keyboard
locks up within 30 seconds.  I have tried more than one keyboard and it
isn't     board dependent.  I would appreciate any help by email response
since I don't read news regularly.  Any help would be greatly apreciated.
						Gail Bingham 
						Cirris@usu.edu


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From: aa479@Freenet.carleton.ca (Michael Wolff)
Subject: scanners (handheld, 256 grayscale)
Organization: National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:56:38 GMT


Hi!  I've been looking around at handheld 256 grayscale scanners, but there's
not too much written up about them.  What do you recommend?  Has anyone heard of
the Envisions ENV256?  What's it like (tech specs, etc.)?  What about OCR
software?  Imaging software?
-- 
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The length of which saps reason from my rhyme
But if enlisting help might ease the pain
'Twould also make life harder soon again.
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From: dap20@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (David A Pauke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: How do I disable COM ports on Motherboard?
Date: 10 Jan 93 21:47:16 GMT
Reply-To: dap20@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (David A Pauke)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

I have a Leading Edge Model D3, 386-DX 16MHz system. It is built around
the DAEWOO motherboard. Recently one of the COM ports on my motherboard
stopped working and since I've been considering installing a game port,
I thought I'd get a multi I/O card. I don't think the I/O card and the
MB ports can coexist so I'd like to know how to properly disable the
ports built into the MB.

The 2s/1p ports are on one LSI chip (in a square, recessed socket, I
think it's called the PLCC package). I figured I could just set a jumper.
The manual offers no help on how to do so. And all the MB jumpers in the
manual are accounted for, so a jumper can't be the answer.

Can I just pull the chip? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave  (dap20@amail.amdahl.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson)
Subject: Re: VLB Machines and Bus Mastering - AIR Motherboards
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 21:41:41 GMT

In article <1993Jan2.085153.29095@doug.cae.wisc.edu> keiths@cae.wisc.edu (Keith Scidmore) writes:
>     A motherboard vendor told me that I should buy an AIR motherboard because
>it is the only one they carry that has true bus mastering VLB slots.  The 
>others, including the Micronics board used in the Gateway machines, don't
>do bus mastering.  The ATI graphics cards for local bus are, he said, bus
>mastering cards and can take advantage of the AIR board's bus mastering
>capability.  My questions to all you netlanders are:
>
>1) Is it true that the VESA VLB spec allows for non bus mastering cards?
>2) Is this guy giving me a line of bull?
>3) Does anyone out there know anything about AIR (Advanced Integrated Research)
>   motherboards, or has anyone benched one of theses AIR VLB boards.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Keith R. Scidmore

   The VESA spec says: "Bus mastering on both the VL-Bus or system I/O bus are
fully supported."  What this means to me is that if the motherboard does not
allow bus mastering, its not VESA compatible.  I believe Micronics was on the
VESA committee (along with Zeos) and doubt seriously if they would handicap
their boards like that. IMHO.

---JRE---

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