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From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: IBM PC ERROR
Date: 6 Oct 92 14:15:22 GMT
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

I'm not an expert here, but given your description of the memory problem
and the "click" you hear, I would be inclined to think your power supply
needs to be replaced.  I gather that this is one of the early PCs (256K
motherboard).  I am surprised your power supply didn't go bad before this
(especially if you haven't periodically blown the dust out).

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Jim Johnson-
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From: Mike@tron.gun.de (Michael Gerhards)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: connect two PC's
Organization: TRON Public Mailbox, Neurath, Germany
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 20:37:00 +0200

Hello,

I tried to connect ma two PC's with a null-modem-cable, but the tries with
DRDOS filelink and PCTOOLS commute and deskconnect went wrong.

I choose the right com-port and baud-rate, but after 'incoming call', the
connection breaks down. If I start filelink with the option slave an the
first PC and start filelink with connect on the other, all is ok.

How could I connect the two PC's with commute. ( Or does anyone knows,
how I can create a remote-control from Coherent to a DOS-PC ?? )

Thanks in advance !

c u

Michael
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From: chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan)
Subject: Re: Chipsets: OPTI or SIS ? Which would you prefer ?
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 04:57:52 GMT

bolek@viewlogic.com (Boleslaw Ciesielski) writes:


>Hi,

>I am buying a computer for my father and the dealer has a choice of
>motherboards with either OPTI or SIS chipsets. Does anybody have
>good or bad experience with either of them ? If so, I would like to
>hear! This is for ISA 486 DX-50.

>Thanks!

>     Bolek
>bolek@viewlogic.com

Definitely OPTi!! I was told to stay away from UMC and SIS. So far, OPTi
comes first, next comes ETEQ.

Sean

P.S. No flames please!!
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From: aron@tikal.ced.berkeley.edu (aron bonar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Are GoldStar SIMMs Any Good?
Date: 2 Oct 1992 05:47:24 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tikal.ced.berkeley.edu

Well...I just got a 486dx-50 with 16megs of Goldstar SIMMs.   They are 70's and
they seem to run fine.  Granted, I'm no tech guru but they work great in my system
and the software I use. (QEMM, DesqView, Windows 3.1, 3dStudio...)
Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:25481 comp.sys.intel:1785
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Re: BERNOULLI BERNOULLI
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 00:18:43 GMT

My 90 meg Bernoulli Cartridge has a 5 year warrantee printed on the
cartridge.
-- 
Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com>
 
[.sig on vacation]
From: scottd@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Local bus motherboards.
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:07:22 GMT
Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

Hi,
Forgive my ignorance but does a local bus slot require a local bus card
or can I plug in a standard video card/drive controller?

Also, what would be "better", a 33 Mhz 486 with local bus slot
or a 50 Mhz 486 without local bus.

My requirements are - unix, multitasking, X windows.

Cheers,

Scott.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer)
Subject: Re: 24X still will not do 800*600 32K at 72Hz
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 13:13:04 GMT

ajb8886@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>>
>One question:  Did you run the 24XMode program to make sure your monitor
>settings are indeed correct for the 72Hz mode?  And are you sure that
>your monitor does indeed support 72Hz refresh in this mode?

>Try loading 24Xmode, going to Custom, and playing with the options for
>800*600 mode; see whether any of them work correctly for your monitor
>at 800*600 * 72Hz.

The board wont do 800*600*32K @ 72Hz - only at 60Hz.  (It says so on the box,
as well as the manual - I didn;t raed it before!)

>If there is a change of any setting, don't forget to put the line
>24XMODE MONITOR in your autoexec.bat (no it's not a TSR, it just sets
>the chip configuration and exits) so that your card is configured correctly
>for your monitor at all times.
From: ardtlong@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Dale T. Long)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help needed with EGA config.
Keywords: help
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:53:08 GMT
Organization: The University of Adelaide
NNTP-Posting-Host: adam.adelaide.edu.au


I am having trouble with a new EGA display card. The computer in question
is a Quadtel 80286 based machine (HT12 processor and 1 Meg of memory).
It uses an 8 bit card driving two Segate ST225 hard drives and a 'CA8392'
AT multi I/O card (IDE port disabled, FDD, 2 COMs ports, a printer port
and a joy stick port). All works fine with the original CGA card I use.
Now when I swap the CGA card for the EGA card (a VT 'video technology?' card)
I get a 'Parity error 2 0000'. This is in 'auto detect' mode. When I set it
to be a CGA card it works fine. When I set it to be an EGA card (via dip
switches) it seems to work. Text display is fine. However, when I use
high resolution graphics such as in various games or the graphics mode of
DOS SHELL 5.0 the machine locks up after about one to five minutes. It
did this once with a text program as well (40x25). This is with virtually
every program I have tested. After much card removal and card function
disabling I found that this problem did not occur if the FDD part of the
multi function board/card was disabled. The FDD controler part of the m/f
card must conflict with the EGA card. The EGA auto detect would work fine
(no parity error) with the FDD controler disabled. There must be a conflict
in I/O lines or ROM/RAM space required. I find this very frustrating.
I cannot effectively use the EGA card and my floppy drives at the save time.
Is there a way to fix this dilema? Has this problem happened to anyone else?
Is it usual for a FDD controler and EGA card to conflict?

                                Thank you in advance.


Dale Long.
ardtlong@adam.adelaide.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: morty@midips.in-berlin.de (Martin Poetter)
Subject: Re: WANTED: 17" monitor recommendation
Organization: Private Organisation fuer angewandte Informagie
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 22:04:05 GMT

tracyb@bnr.ca (Tracy Blomquist) writes:

>I just got off the phone with another tech rep from Philips.
>It seems that the 1st tech rep didn't know his stuff.  I had
>the new guy fax me some specs, and at 1280x1024 the 1764 only does
>60Hz!  I was led to believe it went higher by someone else at
>Philips.  The 100Hz max refresh that they advertise is for
>lower resolutions.  So to revise...
>For high 17" refresh at 1280x1024, there are few choices:
>Nec 5fg ($$), Nanao T560i ($$$), any others?

I just bought a Philips monitor here in Germany. I think it's the same
as your 1764 though its name is Brilliance 1709.
Well, here are the specs:

  17" black matrix tube, silica-coated surface, dotted pitch 0.26 mm,
  30-66 kHz horiz., 50-100 Hz vert., microprocessor controlled with
  knobs for both horizontal and vertical size and shift and for barrel
  and trapezoid adjustment, LCD shows current display mode, contrast
  and brightness control.
  
It's quite nice, but there are two points which are still bad:

1) The image is very sharp at nine tenth of the screen but not in the
   corners. It's really poor.
   
2) You can only save 4 user adjustments, e.g. 1024x768 at 76 Hz. 		      
   There are also 11 factory presets which can be edited in size and
   shift but most of them (e.g. 800x600 at 56 Hz) won't be used seriously.

This monitor can handle up to 66 kHz horizontal frequency, so there won't
be any problems when displaying 1280x1024 at 63 Hz or so (I use 1024x768
at 79 Hz with a Sigma Legend II).  
   
I can't compare it to others but I think the Brilliance 1709 (or 4CM6089)
is worth buying, and I don't know any monitor which comes with that specs
for that less money.

Martin from Berlin, Germany.
-- 
morty@midips.in-berlin.de
Martin Poetter / W1000 Berlin 20 / Germany
Student d. E-Technik, TU Berlin, 6. Sem.
From: csa@cup.portal.com (CHUCK - ARAKAWA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Corel SCSI Software
Date: Mon,  5 Oct 92 21:04:59 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

I have recently bought Corel SCSI software v1.01F, to be used on an ADAPTEC
1540B adapter.  The distribution software does not seem to be installing
correctly.  Corel says that the manufacturer should supply you with the
appropriate ASPI driver, and their software will not work with out this
driver, I think its called ASPI4DOS.sys.  Seems funny that a package that
should do everything for SCSI can't even install correctly......
I will post the results of this ordeal.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: chyang@exemplum.engin.umich.edu (Chung Hsiung Yang)
Subject: UNIX on INTEL based machines
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 19:01:06 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: chyang@exemplum.engin.umich.edu


Hello,

	Just wonder.  Is it worth it to run UNIX on a 3/486.  I heard
about SCO UNIX.  Could someone explain what this is?  

	Can I run X-windows on it?  

	Can I use X-based softwares on it?  Like XV or something?  

	Does it run efficient or fast enough enough to be useful???

	Is it compatible with SUN UNIX Stations?

- Thanx in advance.

- Chung Yang
From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Video Boards & Monitors - Speedstar 24x vs Others - What hi-res 24bit?
Date: 27 Sep 1992 03:36:50 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, johnn@eskimo.celestial.com (John Navitsky) says:

>Ok, pretty strange subject line.
>
>Hello all,
>
>I've been following some of the video board discussions and have some questions.
>
>Maybe it would be easiest if I mentioned up front what I'm intrested in...
>
>A high resolution video board that can handle 1K x 1K with 24 bit color.  

Well, the math dictates that you want a video board that supports 3 megs
of video memory.  I think nec makes one for about $800.  I have not
seen any 1k x 1k x 24 bit color boards for less.  

My personal guess is that the s3 928 chip will make these video boards
afordable in about 6 months.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
From: ede@kadabra.osf.org (Ted Ede)
Subject: Re: I/O Cards -- HELP!
Keywords: I/O Cards
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:19:45 GMT

In article <burleigh.718309506@ogre> burleigh@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Frank Burleigh) writes:
>In <1ao7i1INNg8h@aludra.usc.edu> durby@usc.edu (Dennis Durby) writes:
>
>[Dennis asks for a source for an i/o card with socketed uart chips
>so he can use 16550afn uarts.]
>
>Call Friday's: 800-488-6575.  I just bought a 2-serial port card
>with socketed 16550afn chips for $50.  No parallel port, though,
>but they can be bought for what, 9 bucks?
>
>I had expected to get it cheaper, but by the time you get a $20
>card (if you can find one with socketed chips), then buy the new
>uarts plus whatever other support chips one might need, you'd
>probably be approaching $50 anyway...

Mark Zinzow recently posted:

From p. 63 of the October 1992
- Boardwatch Magazine -

I/O Card Dual Socketed With (2) Com,
(1)Parallel, (1)Game, Including
(2)16450 (Stock Chip)......$16.50

NS16550AFN (High Speed Chip)
[replaces stock chip]
....................$10.00 Each

 Others Components Available

To Order or for Free Price List
CALL - (407) 695-4447 USA
or Write:

Matron
Box 195123
Winter Springs FL. 32719


I purchase uarts from them.  They worked fine.  $36.50 for the card
with two 16550's.   Add $4 for COD and $4.50 for shipping and you're
under $50 with a parallel port and game port.

I have no affiliation except a satisfied customer.

   Ted Ede -- ted@world.std.com -- on contract at the Open Software Foundation
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From: d89-tgl@nada.kth.se (Tobias Gladh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: New floppy-disk configuration problems on a 286 AT
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:56:26 GMT
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Hello world

I've got a friend who has bought an old PC 286 AT with a 5.25"-drive. Now he has
bought a 1.44 MB 3.5"-drive, and wants to install it. As his computerknowledgable
friend I tried to help him. We used the BIOS setup-program that was supposed to
support 1.44 MB disk-drives. It didn't.

Then we tried a setup-program operating from DOS, but it didn't work either.
I'm afraid that I have to use the jumpers on the mother-board, and I don't know 
anything about that. As my friend bought the computer second-hand, he has very 
little documentation, that is, none.

After these first efforts, and some reading, we tried to put a driver.sys-routine
in config.sys. This gave some surprising effects, for instance, the computer
tried to read both disk-drives at the same time, not exactly what we where hoping
for.

So now we're out of fresh ideas, except for using a sledgehammer on the stupid
machine!

Has anybody out there had the same problem? Does anybody have a suggestion as how
to solve this problem, without using the bloody jumpers on the motherboard? Or do
you have a suggestion about a good book describing a 286 AT-motherboard?

Perhaps I should mention that I haven't heard about the computer-manufacturer
that has made his computer.

If you can give me the answer to any of the above questions, please mail me.

/Thank you, Tobbe :-)
From: as232@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Lerner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Insight
Date: 5 Oct 1992 18:21:55 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I've read a lot lately about Gateway and ZEOS on this group.  Now, I'm
curious about some of the other less-well-nown companies and people's
expiences.  Insight seems to be one of the less expensive alternatives to
the Big Boys, has anyone purchased from Insight, and if so, what has been
your experience with product quality, customer service?  How well put together
are their systems?  

How, for instance, can they afford to sell their DX2/66 for only $2399?

Mike
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer)
Subject: Re: MAG MX15F color divergence problem
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:20:21 GMT

gilem@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) writes:

>I received a Mag mx15f yesterday and found that it is really nice except
>for one noticable flaw.  There is a small triangle in the upper left 
>corner (about 1/2" down and 3/4" across) which has rather obvious color
>divergence problem (maybe a wrinkle in the shadow mask?).  Is this a common
>problem with these monitors?  I'm probably going to return it next week,
>because I am currently running it in 640x480 and 800x600, and the problem
>seems worse with higher resolutions.  Any suggestions/comments?

>Mike
>gilem@rpi.edu

>I wanted to get a Nanao 550i, but I couldn't justify spending twice as much
>for only 2 more inches of screen diagonal...  :(


It looks like 15" monitors are "not quite there" yet!  I've gone through seven
now  (4 * AOC, 1 * Hitachi & 2 * Viewsonic) and still can't get one that does
not have a distorted picture. 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mmark@lockjaw.engin.umich.edu (Mark D Myran)
Subject: Re: TAPE BACKUP VIA PRINTER PORT-SPEED,ETC
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 92 15:40:41 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Originator: mmark@lockjaw.engin.umich.edu


In article <1992Oct2.094344.1709@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil>, sfullenkamp@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil writes:
> Does anyone out there have any experience or comments on backup tape 
> devices that interface to the computer via the printer (parallel) port.

I have experience with an Irwin EzPort and I have found that performance
is highly machine dependant, it all depends on the parallel port
on the computer.  Generally, it works quite well for backups, but not so
well for restoring because most parallel ports are for output only, so four
status lines must be used as the data bus.

But, if you have a fast computer or a bidirectional parallel port, restores
work pretty well, too.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: 11dmcvay@gallua.gallaudet.edu
Subject: HELP: Installation
Organization: Gallaudet University
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 16:10:07 GMT

I currently have a hard drive that was removed out of another system and
I'm trying to install it into my Tandy1000SX.

Could someone tell me the standards of how to install a Harddrive?

And what does 1701 when shown at bootup mean?

EMAILS PLEASE?


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jimh@pacdata.uucp (Jim Harkins)
Subject: Re: What's the DIFFERENCE between the Speedstar24 & Speedstar24x?
Organization: Pacific Data Products
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:56:22 GMT

In article <1992Sep23.221554.26455@infonode.ingr.com> bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
>
>The 24X is a graphics accelerator.  It runs windows graphics many times
>faster then the 24, which is a dumb frame buffer.  If you use windows
>alot, you will see much more than $50 improvement with the 24X.

Note that they evidently have no plans to support OS/2.  So if you run
Windows Diamond cards are a good product, but if you run OS/2 they are
essentially expensive VGA cards.  Anybody want to buy a Diamond Stealth 
cheap?  

jim

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: zappe@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Harald Zappe)
Subject: Re: HD light says on constantly! Is that good?
Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin
Distribution: tub
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 00:56:43 GMT

In <29SEP199208152322@rosie.uh.edu> st1r8@rosie.uh.edu (Guillot, Burt J.) writes:

>I have recently purchased a 16-bit MFM controller for my Tandy 3000 HL
>computer.  It's an AT, 286-8mhz.  However, I've been able to format it
>and everything, but I'm having some weird problems.  First though, it
>might be helpful to know that I had to disable the onboard floppy
>controller to use the one of the hard drive controller (for my 360K).

>The main deal is that the hard drive light stays on constantly?  I've
>never seen anything like that before.  Will that cause any problems??

>Also, I copied some ZIPs over from my other computer's floppy and when
>I tried to unZIP them onto the hard drive on the new computer, all
>the files came out, but 50% of them had a "CRC error".  That problem
>might be linked to the floppies, but if anyone knows why the drive light
>stays on, I'd like to know.  (The drive boots fine on its own if anyone
>was interesting).

Which lamp is constantly ON: the drive SELECT lamp or the drive USE lamp ?

When I had more than 1 HD the drive select lamp located at the drives
indicated the last (or current) use of 1 of the drives. Additionally the
drive use lamp (driven by the controller card [MFM and RLL do the same here])
indicated the current data transfere to or from a drive.
When you only have 1 harddisk it should always be selected. So this select
lamp is always on, but the 'use lamp' should flicker.

The floppy read problem might be that the 360K-floppies were formatted on
a 1.2MB-drive with smaller track widths. When they are RE-formatted back
from 1.2MB to 360K on a 1.2MB-drive there will be magnetical rests of the
'other' 40 tracks.
I wonder that there were no read errors with the floppies but ZIP-CRC-Errs.
So the machine on which the ZIP-files were written may have produced the
errors.


Harald

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Keyboard
From: Spartacus At Cuny <I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Sunday, 27 Sep 1992 17:23:02 EDT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

In article <1a312bINN20f@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, dpn2@po.CWRU.Edu (Damien P. Neil)
says:
>
>starting to fall apart. My roommate just got a Gateway 2000 machine, with a
>Gateway AnyKey keyboard. This is a beautiful thing with function keys
>across the top and side, eight direction keys instead of four (and a
>'empty' key in the middle) and four keys that are used to program the other
>keys.
>
>I would like to boy something like this. I have heard that the Northgate

Why not call Gateway and see if they would sell you one?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: are EISA & local bus mutually exclusive?
From: stuartw@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Stuart Woolford)
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 23:39:59 GMT
 oware.com> <91491@netnews.upenn.edu> <CARL.92Oct3004603@caicos.Cayman.COM>
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.

carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl) writes:


>>  Let's see.( 19200 bit/sec /8 bits) * 32 ports = 76800 byte/sec.

>19.2k - yuk --- think big... I would prefer to have a network
>connection at *least* as fast as ethernet.  Once you're talking about
>having a fiber connection to remote services you'll want much more
>than than the miniscule (relatively speaking) transfer rates that
>we're talking about.  Hell, if I want to run my computer as part of
>the "local" network at work, X is barely useable over a 56k line
>(which I don't have (yet).  Of course at that point I'll want at least
>32 meg (probably more like somewhere in the 100's) memory so I don't
>have to use the disk except for a very small fraction of the
>information that I can save to examine later...

>Of course this isn't available today, at least not widely...

but one of the three VL slots already had a network card ( or do you require
33 seperate network links ??? ).

I would even doubt, at todays network speeds, if the network card would
require more that ISA's bandwidth, remember, ISA will no longer be loaded
by the video or HD....

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