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From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: Re: H-P Vectra RS/16 Memory Question
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 01:04:00 GMT

leonglaw@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Lawrence LEONG) writes:

>In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, rab@hal.cwru.edu (Roger Bielefeld) writes:

>|I've just inherited responsibility for caring for two old H-P
>|Vectra RS/16 machines.  Each contains one meg of memory in the
>|form of four 256K SIMM's.  I'd like to upgrade each to four
>|megs of memory right away and eventually to eight megs.
>|
>|I'd like to fill four of the sixteen SIMM sockets on each machine
>|with 1M SIMM's and later add four more SIMM's to each.  However, I
>|RTFM'ed and it specified sixteen 256K SIMM's to achieve four megs.
>|I'd really rather not have to scrounge up that many 256K SIMM's and
>|then have to get rid of them when I go to eight megs.  So, my question
>|is whether anyone happens to know whether I can just install four 1M
>|SIMM's instead of sixteen 256K SIMM's in these particular machines.
>|
>|Thanks!
>|
>|Roger
>|--
>|Roger Bielefeld     Case Western Reserve University
>|rab@hal.cwru.edu    Cleveland, Ohio  USA

>i once had this on my table (i've migrated to a unix machine).  my prev
>machine was 1989 vintage, i stuffed all 8 simm slots with 1m simms, the
>machine booted up, no problem.  ran win 3.0 etc.  ymmv.

>lawrence

No problem.  I just to run an RS/20c with 4 1MB SIMMs.

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From: leclercm@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Leclerc Marco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: BERNOULLI BERNOULLI
Date: 14 Sep 92 19:05:10 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

Hello all....

Ok, I'd like to have some infos about the Bernoulli 90meg drive.
-is it fast?
-is it easy to install?
-is it reliable?
-is it worth the price? 

Thanks!


					Marco
					Leclercm@jsp.umontreal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mrbill@leland.Stanford.EDU (William Bowen)
Subject:  Multiple Partitions on a Hard Drive?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 17:08:42 GMT

What are the advantages or disadvantages to having multiple partitions on a
hard drive? I intend to use only DOS, so I don't really need more than one,
but would it speed up disk operations if I split my 130 M drive in to two or 
three partitions?

Thanks for any info.

Bill


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 13:02:21 GMT

In article <1992Sep8.182015.662@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> tjo3s@Virginia.EDU (Thomas John O'Shaughnessy) writes:
>I've resently purchased a Zeos 486 computer with a Diamond Stealth
>video card.  Everything works fine, but I've noticed that in a few
>games there are randomly colored pixels flashing on the screen.  This
>happens in Star Trek 25th Anniversary while on the bridge and in both
>Wing Commanders will in the fighters.  There are other cases of this but
>these are the most obvious.  My question is whether this is normal for
>the Stealth or is something wrong with my particular card?
>
>				Thanks,
>				Tom
>

This is the first reported incident that I am aware of of the Stealth 
card doing this. Are you setting the Video Refresh rates for the 
monitor using VMODE? i.e. 

cd \vram\util
vmode
Select monitor.
Select 'custom' monitor type for the ZEOS CTX monitor.
Set refresh rates to
	640x480 	70hz
	800x600		70hz
	1024x768 	60hz 

The settings will be saved.

You will need to insert '\vram\util\vmode monitor' in your autoexec.bat.

You will also want to check for any possible RF interference. If none
of these work e-mail us, support@zeos.com.
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From: donm@crash.cts.com (Don Maslin)
Subject: Re: INFO request: what's this hard drive?
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 14 Sep 92 10:40:08 PDT

The Miniscribe 6053 has the following characteristics:

	Cap	44mb
	Intfc	ST-506 MFM
	Spd	28 
	Hds	5
	Cyl	1024
	Spt	17
	RWC	1024
	WPC	512

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From: tracyb@bnr.ca (Tracy Blomquist)
Subject: Re: Ultra Graphics Pro Release Date ???????
Organization: Bell Northern Research
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:12:04 GMT

Ke-Wei Ma (km4c+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
: Anybody out there know when the ATI Ultra Graphics Pro is to be realeased?
: 
: Ke-Wei

According to an ATI tech rep that I talked to a couple of weeks ago, the
Ultra Pro (initially for ISA) would be released in Sept. (this month).

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From: bhala@cs.utexas.edu (Bhalchandra Ghatate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Hard Drive erratic
Date: 8 Sep 1992 20:22:33 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: tokio.cs.utexas.edu

	I am having problems with the hard drive I have bought.
I have done everything right.
	This is my second drive.  First one is on C: 80 meg
This I have configured as drive D: 40 meg.

1. Installed it correctly as drive D: Jumpers etc.
2. Terminator is on C: as that is at the end of the cable.
3. Partitioned it using FDISK.
4. It doesnot format.  Keeps recovering errors.
   Actually I did format it once but now it refuses to.

Any help is appreciated.

bhala






Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cab6944@usl.edu (Brasseaux Carl A)
Subject: Is 200 Watt Power Supply Enough for 486
Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 02:41:43 GMT

I'm hoping to buy a 486 system in the nexts few weeks.  The ads in Computer
Shopper, PC Sources and other magazines indicate a wide range of capacity in
power supplies bundled with systems.  On the low end are systems with 7
drive bays, but only a 200 watt power supply.  Is this enough?  Thanks
in advance for any advice you can offer.
Carl BBrasseaux
P.S. Please contact me by e-mail at cab6944@usl.edu
From: grtorlba@sumax.seattleu.edu (George Torralba)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Supra 14.4k Fax/Modem
Date: 5 Sep 92 05:18:26 GMT
Organization: Seattle University, Seattle WA

In article <1992Sep04.235539.12790@r-node.gts.org> shadow@r-node.gts.org (Jay Chu) writes:
>Is the Supra 14.4k Fax/Modem the cheapest (in $$) modem available for the PC?
>Can I get a better/cheaper one with about the same features?

Cheapest?  No.  Look at the Boca or the Cardinal.

George
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dale@manet.wustl.edu (Dale Frye)
Subject: Re: 15" monitors
Reply-To: dale@manet.wustl.edu
Organization: Washington University, School of Engineering, St. Louis MO
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:42:58 GMT

In article <9225314.9937@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> william@natimuk.acci.com.au  
(William Lo) writes:
> In article <dxryk-m@rpi.edu> gilem@aix02.ecs.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)  
writes:
> >After looking around for a machine for a few weeks now, I have 
> >decided that I will probably not have the money to buy a 17"
> >monitor, because all the decent ones cost >$1k.  Does anyone 
> >have a suggestion for the best 15" monitor available.  I would 
> >prefer flat screen, and 70+ Hz refresh at 1024x768.  As far
> >as quality is concerned, I would like a crisp image, and the 
> >largest screen size possible.  has anyone ever seen the V6FS, 
> >it looks promising...
> >
> >thanks
> >gilem@rpi.edu
> >
> 
> 	An NEC 4FG is all that you're looking for(except it doesn't  
support
> 	72+ hz refresh rates - the max. is 70). But other features
> 	above-mentioned it has all. Should be the best 15" around. Another
> 	one could be the Viewsonic 6F 15" which however I haven't seen. 
> 
> 	I've recently bought a MAG MX14 trinitron which is a pleasant  
baby, 
> 	too. Supports very fast refresh rates. And can do 1280x1024 at  
64hz
> 	(NI) - that's quite good for a tiny 14"! Also has got an LCD  
displaying
> 	vga mode information(digitally) all the way. BTW, it's $100(A$)  
less
> 	expensive(but still expensive) than the NEC 15". Definitely worth
> 	considering! 

I just heard about a 15" monitor from Relisys that does 72hz NI at  
1024x768.It also does 1280x1024 but interlaced. The price should be 
around $600 maybe less. This is a new version of their 15" model.

Dale Frye
Washington University in St. Louis
From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:29:09 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

In article <1992Sep15.132321.28109@bnr.ca> tracyb@bnr.ca
(Tracy Blomquist) writes:

>The ATI Pro is still 8514 reg compatible (although obviously you won't
>get the high-colour/true-colour capabilities with 8514 drivers).  This
>is according to an ATI tech rep I talked to.

This may be obvious too, but not to the hardware illiterate among us.
:-)

Is there an advantage (speed?) to the ATI Pro in 8514 mode as compared
to the old Ultra? That is, does the reported speedier performance of the
Pro just apply to the new, high-color video modes, or will a Pro in 8514
mode under os/2 run considerably faster than an old Ultra in the same
configuration? I am guessing that at least some increase would be
available with the EISA version of the Pro, just from the increased bus
width.

Thanks,

David

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:23885 comp.arch:9329
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Does a 487sx shut down the 486sx??
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:44:14 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <GLEW.92Sep9195211@pdx007.intel.com>, glew@pdx007.intel.com (Andy Glew) writes:

| I am not 100% certain, but I am reasonably sure that the original
| i486sx was *not* a CPU that passed integer tests but failed FP tests.
| 
| The present i486sx, of course, doesn't need to pass FP tests because
| it has no FP on chip. 
| 
| There would be far too much risk involved in chips that failed any
| part of their functionality tests.  Imagine that FP tests failed
| because of an intermittent short in the FP side - a short that would
| eventually close, even with integer only use...

  This brings up a good technical point, how do you properly test a chip
with a castrated FPU? If you test with the FPU enabled and then disable
it you might cause a problem in the disable process (unless you do it by
mounting with a pin tied high of some such). If you disable and then
test, you might miss a problem such as you describe above.

  If you test before and after the cost of manufacture goes up on the
chip you seel for less (that wouldn't astonish me from intel).

-- 
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    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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From: klin@husc8.harvard.edu (Karin Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Anyone heard of/dealt with Computer Sales Professional?
Date: 5 Sep 92 03:43:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc3.1992Sep4.234344.15380
Distribution: world
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

Has anyone had any experience with or know about the company Computer Sales
Professional in New Jersey?  I've been looking for a 486DX/50, and they have
by far the best deals I've ever seen...but it's just that fact which makes me
a bit wary, since I have little (read none) experience buying computers
through mail order.

If anyone knows anything about this company, please let me know through email
to klin@athena.mit.edu.  Thanks.

Karin

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.ms-windows.apps
From: kkt@philabs.philips.com (Kim-Kiat Tan)
Subject: Re: Gateway's Software Options?
Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff, New York
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 12:54:13 GMT

In article <1532@ncrbeth.BethlehemPA.NCR.COM> jon@ncrbeth.BethlehemPA.NCR.COM (John Staub) writes:
>bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob) writes:
>
>stuff deleted.
>and my second power supply. I updated my video card and was charged a
>thirty dollar *restocking*  fee for a defective part. People I talk to
>-- 
>JOHN STAUB                          Phone      215-264-5411

	If what you return is truely defective, you shouldn't have to pay the
restocking fee at all. If I were you, I will refuse to pay (i.e. if you pay
by your credit card). But if the warranty period is already over, that's a 
different story.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mts@wam.umd.edu ()
Subject: Re: Eteq Motherboard Advanced Chipset Setup Question
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:10:23 GMT

In article <HAGAN.92Sep14005511@titan.ucc.umass.edu> hagan@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Craig I. Hagan) writes:
>well, lets take a look here:
>
>33mhz / 6 = 5.5mhz
>33mhz / 4 = 8.25mhz
>33mhz / 3 = 11mhz  (many computers have this one)
>33mhz / 2 = 16.5mhz
>
>This looks very much like the speeds for your isa bus.
>
>Usually ISA busses are preconfigured/defaulted at ~8mhz. Running
>it faster (like about 12mhz) doesn't normally cause problems
>with today's hardware. I would try out both 12mhz and 16mhz,
>and see which works the best, faster being preferred, just
>dont blame me if that 10 year old serial port blows up.
>
>-- craig
> 
     
      Whenever I try and run my bus speed at anything higher than 8Mhz
everything works fine except my hard drive.  I have a combined floppy/hard
controller, but it ignores the hard drive and asks for a floppy in a: to 
boot from.  Anyone know why that would be.  The drive is an ST251-1 and gets
about 28ms at best.  Could this be the problem that data is not reaching the
controller as fast as the bus wants it?


Dave.
.
From: wai@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Benjamin Wai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Opinions needed on Video Blaster or equivalents...
Date: 9 Sep 92 03:31:25 GMT
Reply-To: wai@sage.cc.purdue.edu
Organization: Purdue University


	After spending the last month on understanding the functions of 
	Video Blaster (Creative Lab) from scattered info sources, I would 
	like to obtain some opinions from anyone who knows about the card 
	or any similar products from other companies, especially on whether 
	it's worth the price, the advantages, disadvantages, preferences, 
	things to beware of, etc. 
	I will make a summary of any info I received in the coming two
	weeks for anyone elses who is also interested.

	I appreciate your helps.

	Thanks.

	- Benjamin Wai  < wai@cn.ecn.purdue.edu > < wai@sage.cc.purdue.edu >

	Why not get a Amiga AA with a Video Toaster and forget all these 
	trouble? Someone asked. - Tempting, but not after I have already 
	spent half my life so far and all my pocket money left on my 486. 
	No returns.                                                  8 )
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: swartzjh@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Subject: Adding a Hard Drive
Reply-To: swartzjh@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 17:16:57 GMT

Does anyone know if an IDE hard drive will coexist with an ESDI hard drive?
I currently have a Seagate ST1144A and want to add a NEC ESDI D5655 hard
drive...  Will this work??? Any special jumper settings???  I assume I will
have to at least disable one of the floppy controllors, but that's no big
deal.  THanks in advance for any information.


			Jeff Swartz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tgt@neon.ecn.purdue.edu (Conan the Librarian)
Subject: video problems
Keywords: RAM check
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 15:21:49 GMT

Hello, I am posting this for a friend.

He is having some problems with a 386-20 MHz system, using an older
NEC multisync monitor and a trident graphics card.  The problem:
Whenever he powers up the system, the video is almost invariably
scrambled.  He subsequently warm reboots the system, sometimes as
many as five times, before the video signal finally comes "clean".
He is at the point now where he is afraid to turn the machine off
for fear he will not be able to get any usable video the next time
he turns it on.

Can anyone shed some light on the causes of this problem?  He thinks
maybe some video RAM is bad (never had the problem with 256k, but problems
started sometime after he added 256k extra).  I thought there might
be some software out there to test the video ram (I have seen such
for testing main-memory) but I don't know where to get this from.

Any and all help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks.

-tom

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: Power supply query
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:44:35 GMT

waynet@pendragon.CNA.TEK.COM (Wayne Turner) writes:

>Some vendors sell EISA tower systems, which they claim are adequate for
>server applications, but use 220 watt power supplies (Gateway and Dell,
>for example).  Claims such as "we load up all 8 drive bays without any
>problems" are made.  Other vendors offer 300 or 450 watt supplies for
>similarly configured EISA systems.  Anyone have any opinions on what is
>really adequate, what is overkill, etc.?

I specified a Northgate recently as a server, and one of my reasons was
its 450W power supply.
Power consumption is dropping all the time, and most systems should run
just fine on the lower supplies.  Note I said "run".  "Starting up" will
be where your problem will originate.  When a hard drive spins up, it needs
a lot more juice than once it has gotten up to speed.  This puts additional
stress on a power supply.  Since power supplies are a frequent failure 
point in PCs as it is, I'd go with a bigger one.  The repeated "hits" of a
PC with several large hard disks spinning up can only shorten the life of
a small power supply.  Considering how small the price premium is (you
can always get a bigger PS yourself for <$200), I don't think 450W is
"overkill", even if the system, when running, hardly pulls 150W.  Think of
it like insurance, for your hardware _and_ your data.

-JTT
From: borodin@hope.llumc.edu (Sergi Borodin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Memory Cache questions
Keywords: Cache
Date: 10 Sep 92 17:38:00 GMT
Organization: LLUMC Radiation Research Lab

In article <1992Sep10.003938.9490@sarah.albany.edu> jjo619@thor.albany.edu (John O'neill) writes:
>
>I was wondering if you could use regular (non static) ram for a 
>memory cache.

 Sure you can. 

> I realize that static memory is used because it remembers
>when the power goes off, but after using the computer the cache should
>be filled with instuctions.  It seems to me that the static memory
>is only better than regular memory at start up time.  The reason  for
>all this is that static ram is much more expensive than regular ram. 
>I do realize that cache ram is fast and so is more expensive but I believe
>that regular (ie non statice) would be cheaper.

 Static memory loses its contents when power goes off. The reason to use
static memory in cache is the access time, which can be as low as 10 ns
Access time for dynamic RAM doesn't go below 60 ns. So if you're satisfied
with 60 ns - stick with it. 
 For 50 MHz clock rate you'd need a memory with the access time better
than 20 ns.

>Is this possible ?  Thanks ,
>				John 

 S.B.
From: shim@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sam Shim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How to change sectors-per-cluster?
Date: 14 Sep 92 14:57:15 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University

In article <22014@optima.cs.arizona.edu> jaw@cs.arizona.edu (Jim Wilson) writes:
>My hard disk is formatted with 4-sector (2048-byte) clusters.  I want
>to use 16-sector (8192-byte) clusters.  How can I change it?
>
>The details:
>I planned to install Stacker 2.0.  Trouble is, Stacker only works with
>16-sector clusters (except for an XT fix that doesn't apply), and the
>notebook's hard disk is setup with 4-sector clusters.  So I need to

   Stacker should run fine on hard drives with 4-sector clusters.  I have
not had any problems running Stacker or 4-sector clusters.  I believe
Stacker uses 16-sector clusters internally, but will use any DOS standard
cluster format for storage of the Stacked drive.

-Sam-
From: PTS102@psuvm.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Boca v.32bis modem any good?
Date: 10 Sep 92 22:16:05 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

I am in the market for a v.32bis modem, and the Boca 14.4 v.32bis
seems to have all of the standard features of a low-end modem.
The price ($219 from PC Connection) is the cheapest I've found.
Any experiences or reccommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

---
Patrick Saxton  pts102@psuvm.psu.edu  pts@ecl.psu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: swartzjh@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Jeff H. Swartz)
Subject: Hard Drives
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 21:02:33 GMT


Just in case any of you out there ever need Hard Drive info, there is a  
file at WUARCHIVE.WUSTL.EDU under mirrors/msdos/dskutl called  
diskinfo.zip.  This is a great little database with like almost 800  
drives.  It is easy to use and gives all info needed to setup.  It also  
gives the hard drive types for the most popular BIOS's.



			Jeff Swartz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: Re: PC Connection : don't make your pilgrimage there!
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 20:03:09 GMT

For those of you planning a trip to New Hampshire and wishing to drop
by Marlow to visit the international headquarters of PC Connection,
don't bother.

I've been a 10 year satisfied customer, almost worship the company.
When driving through the area, I stopped by Marlow.  They've got a
nice country locale.  Some of the doors to their buildings have video
monitors; some security, I thought.  Walked into the main door and
found myselt in a 10x10 foot reception closet.  The secretary on the
other side of a receptionist window asked what I wanted.  I said I
thought I'd drop by to see the place - was there a showroom, or other
customer area similar to the LL Bean setup in Maine?  No, she said.
They're strictly a mail order shop, and have nothing set up for
customers. ......   oh well.




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