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From: davel@comtch.spk.wa.us (Dave Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: My floppies won't refresh
Date: 6 Jan 93 20:55:03 GMT
Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington

0407658@QUCDN.QueensU.CA writes:
>      My thought is that booting from a floppy like this eliminates a
> problem with config.sys or autoexec.bat..  Also I don't see any connection
> to the fact that it is a 486-66.  Has anyone any experience with such a
> problem?

Don,
I just posted a message _very_ similar to yours last week, regarding a 
refresh problem in Windows. I have yet to find an answer. I do not, 
however, believe that the problem is based on the speed of the processor, 
as I have encountered this little gem across a wide variety of systems 
and speeds. I have never found a cure for it. It just IS. Sometimes, 
changing the floppy drive in question, or the cable seems to help, but 
sometimes not, too.  I'll sit here and see if you get any answers that 
deal with "changeline" support, which is where some folks have said to 
look. But that requires using DRIVER.SYS. 
I personally think it is a minor hardware problem combined with a 
software problem. 

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From: chchen@stat (Ching-Hsiang Chen)
Subject: IRQ's for game card and sound card
Organization: Florida State University
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 15:46:57 GMT

In my PC I already got mouse in IRQ3, modem in IRQ4, printer in IRQ5, and
an ARCnet card in IRQ2. I recently got a game card and a no-name Adlib
compatible sound card, both have no IRQ switch. 
1. Do these cards use IRQ's?
2. If 1. is true, which ones do they usually set as default?

Thanks in advance.

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From: 881404m@axe.acadiau.ca (SEAN MICHAEL MCCORMICK)
Subject: NEC 4FG problems -results summary
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:16:10 GMT

Thanks to those who responded to my post about problems with my 4FG. From 
the responses I received, it appears that quite a few people have 
experienced the same problems that I have ie. tilted picture and blurry/
fuziness in corners. It seems however, that no one has found a solution to 
these problems and many vendors don't want to even deal with it. My 
second 4FG is still at the service center, and if they don't adjust this one 
properly, I am going to ask for my money back. Some people also reported 
problems with the 5FG, so the whole FG line may have quality control 
problems. NEC is supposed to be a reputable company, but they don't seem to 
be doing much about this QC problem. There were a couple of people who 
responded who said that they had several 4FG's in an office situation and 
that most of them were fine but a couple had to be returned or adjusted. So, 
there is perhaps some 4FG's that don't have the problems, although both my 
new ones had the problems. Some people felt that the problems were worth 
living with because of the great brightness + sharpness of the display. In 
my opinion, if you are paying for top of the line equipment you expect a top 
quality product and the 4FG falls short in this regard. NEC must have heard 
about these problems since so many people have experienced them, so why aren'
t they doing anything? Are there any 4FG owners who want to get together and 
write some letters of complaint to NEC? I am going to write one myself, but 
if I could get some others to do the same, we might get a response.

Sean McCormick (881404M@axe.acadiau.ca)
Acadia University
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Canada
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From: th@cci632.cci.com (Tim Hinton)
Subject: Acer Monitors
Organization: [Computer Consoles, Inc., Rochester, NY
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:36:16 GMT

Has anyone ever heard of these Monitors.....how are there quality?

Thanks

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From: umkirk07@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Kirk)
Subject: Problems with BOCA 14.4K Modem
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:53:22 GMT


I have a BOCA 14.4K Internal modem.  It works fine when running at high
speed - either at 9600 or 14.4K Baud.

The problem is that it won't fall back and connect at 2400 or 1200 Baud.
 
This is a pain in the butt, and I have tried lots of different init
strings, but nothing seems to help.

The modem attemps to connect, but I never get the "Connected" message.

Can someone that has a BOCA modem please send me their init strings.

Thanks in advance,

Dale Kirk
Email:  umkirk07@ccu.umanitoba.ca
From: clkeele@honors.uoregon.edu (GET A LIFE, KEELE!!!!!!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Wanted HDD Specs for Shugart 712 & Segate ST506
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:36:33 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon Honors College
NNTP-Posting-Host: lab5.uoregon.edu

Could someone please send me the specs for reformatting the following drives:

     Shugart Model: 712
     Segate Model: ST506

ie, I need # sectors, # cylinders, # tracks, WPzone, ...
The Shugart is an older 10 MB, and I believe the Segate is too.
I would prefer e-mail, but will also browse here too.

Thanks,
Clifford Keele
clkeele@honors.uoregon.edu
ckeele@oregon.uoregon.edu
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From: mccann@plains.NoDak.edu (Lester I. McCann)
Subject: Looking for latest ATI GUP driver -- where?
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:29:47 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network


In my continuing effort to sink money into my Gateway 4DX-33V, I
recently added the second meg of memory and the new 68875 RAMDAC
to my ATI Graphics Ultra Pro.  Now, I want to try to install the
Build 50 ATI driver (well, the latest, greatest verison).  Unfortunately,
I haven't had any luck locating the driver on any of the obvious
FTP sites. I do remember the postings about the driver having been
uploaded to various sites, but it appears that none of those sites
currently have the driver, for whatever reason.

If anyone knows of an FTP site that currently has the latest GUP
driver, please email me, or post.  I'd very much like to avoid a
lengthy long-distance phone call if at all possible.

Thanks for your help.

Lester McCann
mccann@plains.nodak.edu
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From: David Ruggiero <osiris@halcyon.com>
Subject: Entry point for low-level format on XT controllers?
Originator: osiris@halcyon.com
Reply-To: osiris@halcyon.halcyon.com (David Ruggiero)
Organization: [none - why fight entropy?]
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 04:08:45 GMT

My memory is good but a bit rusty...could someone remind me what the
entry point into the BIOS on a standard XT disk controller that
initiates a low-level format? I recall typing something into DEBUG
like:

 g:C800:5

....but this doesn't seem to work. I *could* try to scrape up a utility
to do this, but that would mean me going to the machine rather than
trying to fix it over the phone, and it seems a shame given that I know
that the code is *somewhere* is the bios...

Email would be appreciated; I will summarize and repost any answers.

Thanks!

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David Ruggiero  (jdavid@halcyon.com)       Seattle, WA: Home of the Moss People
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:57:09 EST
From: Senthil Ramas Kumar <SRK106@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Slow floppy drive access!!??!!
 <1is22jINN1nq@umbc4.umbc.edu> <chans.726767095@marsh>



Well, this slow floppy access time, is to be solved by fooling around with
the CMOS setup.  I finally called my SWAN computer guy.  I already had the
shadow RAM enabled, but I had a WAIT STATE = 1, he told me to make that WAIT
STATE = 2.  and now it works fine, I cn get a dir a: in about 3.5 sec, which
is much better than 7.0 sec.

now, what I'd like to know is, *why* this changes the way, the floppy is
behaving ? also, I though that a 486/33 could go to wait state = 0, or is it
dependend on how fast u're memory is ? I have 8MB, dunno how fast thou.

can someone point me to a FAQ which deals, with this WAIT STATE business, or
else atleast explain it in *detail* to me ?

Kumar
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From: CZTF@MUSICA.MCGILL.CA (CZTF000)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.graphics.animation
Subject: Film recorders (Palette,LANG) help?
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:47:50 GMT
Organization: McGill University


Hi folks. I'm aiming to build 16mm film recorders out of an
old (Model 72-10) Polaroid Palette and a "VideoSlide 35" from
somebody called Lang Systems Inc., out of Menlo Park, CA.

Do any of you people out there know if Lang still exists? Where
I could get schematics? (It expects NTSC-speed RGB, as in Targa
or Vista)

Has anyone done anything of this sort with a Palette? Know the
appropriate commands to send out the parallel port? (I'm trying
normal channels of tech support at the same time as posting here...
but you know how it is.) :)

Of course I'd be eager to hear anything from fellow enthusiasts
with similar ambitions... Please reply via e-mail. Thanks.

Mark


Morgenstern________________________________________cztf@musica.mcgill.ca
                                                   (514) 937-8424,-5285
From: rww@mugwump.cl.msu.edu (Richard W. Wiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Cyrix CX486SLC as a 486 clone
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:11:09 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: mugwump.cl.msu.edu

In response to my query about the Cyrix CX486SLC chip, I've 
received a couple of very informative messages explaining in
detail the differences between the Cyrix chip and the Intel 486
family.  Although the chip does implement the 486 instruction set
there are differences in cache size and use of some registers,
which does not seem to affect most current software but reportedly
does keep NextStep from running on this processor.

The labeling of this chip as a 486SLC tends to imply that it's a
clone of Intel chip with the same label.  It's interesting to note
that different computer vendors handle this chip differently;
Tandy labels its notebook with this chip as a 3xxx machine, 
whereas its Intel 486-based models have 4xxx designations.  (Which
seems to imply they think of it as more a 386 clone than a 486).
By contrast, CompuAdd in its latest catalog pitches their
425XL notebook as a "486 at a 386 price!".  Caveat emptor.
From: wai@mackinac.ecn.purdue.edu (Benjamin Wai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 486slc in HK / IBM's 486slc2
Date: 9 Jan 93 14:35:17 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network


	As a note of info...
	During my visit in HK this x'mas, I have come across two incidences 
	of shops attempting to sell off Cyrix486dlc/slc based computers with
	the heading -- 486DX/SX. Both shops also tried to convince me that
	the 486dlc/slc chips are the same to 486DX/SX but just different blend.
	Deception or simply ignorance?
	Just a warning.


	Also a question...
	I have noted that in the IBM ThinkPad's ad, it offers an upgrade of
	'486slc2 50/25'. Is this 486slc2 to 486slc the same as comparing
	DX2 with DX? Or have I misread something?


	- Benjamin Wai  < wai@cn.ecn.purdue.edu > < wai@sage.cc.purdue.edu >
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: What is MCGA?
Date: 11 Jan 93 21:56:05 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <10JAN199310055249@utarlg.uta.edu> b645zjo@utarlg.uta.edu (Rick Homard) writes:
>
>I recently got some software which requires either an EGA, MCGA, or VGA
>video adapters.  What is MCGA?  The software will not run on my PC
>with a CGA card.   Additionally, does an emulator exist so I can run
>the software on my PC (ie: can I fool the software into thinking I
>have either of the monitors listed)?

MCGA is a subset of VGA.  It was implemented on bottom-end PS/2's in
the early years of the PS/2.  It stands for Multi Colored Graphics
Adapter.

It mimics all modes of the MDA/CGA/EGA adapters.  It can also do all
these modes with the 18-bit palette registers of a VGA.  If you give
it full memory (I think this is 256K), you can get 320x200x256 (a-la
VGA) and 640x480xmono (sort-of VGA).

It also has analog output.  It's never been used aside from some
low-end IBM machines.  When a program uses MCGA, they usually refer to
the VGA-low-res 320x200x256 mode that MCGA also does.
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From: massoud@chemteca.sdsu.edu (Massoud Ajami)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HOW DO I ADD A 1.44MB FD TO A PC'S LIMITED (AKA DELL) 286 ?
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:43:09 GMT
Organization: San Diego State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.191.227.22

In article <1993Jan4.205019.11185@seer.gentoo.com> ccowboy@seer.gentoo.com (Sharif Torpis) writes:
>From: ccowboy@seer.gentoo.com (Sharif Torpis)
>Subject: HOW DO I ADD A 1.44MB FD TO A PC'S LIMITED (AKA DELL) 286 ?
>Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:50:19 GMT
>
>     I have a 80286-based system from 1987 made by PC's Limited. I believe
>this is the company that eventually became Dell. I am trying to add a 1.44 MB
>FD to this system. However, after running the reconfiguration utility and
>telling it that I now have a "HIGH CAPACITY" drive, the system fails to boot
>and prints the error message "MISMATCH". Do I need a new FDHD controller card?
>Or do I need a new BIOS from Dell? Does anyone have experience with this
>model hardware?
>
>ccowboy@gentoo.com
>

Yes, you need to ask for ROM upgrade. They give you the ROMs and new 
keyboard controller. You can use different ROM, but you will lose the "smart 
vu" display and machine will work fine.

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From: khor@bnr.ca (Kyle Hor)
Subject: Re: Run a 486/33MHz CPU at 40 or 50MHz?
Reply-To: khor@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:00:48 GMT

In article <up47198@zola.esd.sgi.com>, blean@rwb.esd.sgi.com (Bob Blean) writes:
|> 
|> Are DX2's as push-able ad DX's?  I.E. would you be likely to be able to
|> successfully raise 33mhz to 40 mhz, and with a DX2-66 have 80mhz internally?
|> 
I believe the DX2-66 have a super cooler attached to it to keep it's
temperature low.  That is why Intel can rate it at 66MHz.  Don't think
you can push it any further.
 
Question, is it possible to purchase just the super-cooler?  Would
like to attach it to my chip and see if I can push it to 66MHz
reliably.
 
............................................................................
. Kyle Hor                    .    /       / _   .  Email  khor@bnr.ca     .
. Bell-Northern Research Ltd. .   /__\  / / /_\  .  Phone  (613) 763-2488  .
. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada     .  / \  \/ /  \__  .  ESN          393-2488  .
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................  standard disclaimer, 2 cents opinion  ....................
.............  searching forever, for the perfect solution  ................
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From: lcd@ais.org (Leon Dent)
Subject: Re: Conner 170 meg drives any good?
Organization: UMCC
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:11:00 GMT

 Two local vendors gave me bad reports on Connor 170s.  One stopped selling
them and the other admitted under direct questioning that there was perhaps
a 15 percent chance of getting a flakey one.  This was several months ago.

I just bought a WD2200 200meg from one of the vendors mentioned.

Leon Dent
lcd@ais.org

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From: rl@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (roger.h.levy)
Subject: hard disk "diagnostic track"
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:59:27 GMT
Keywords: disk RLL

I recently installed an RLL disk/contoller as a secondary disk subsystem
in a machine that has an IDE drive as its primary drive.  The installation
went well and the results are fine except when I use PC Tools DiskFix
I get the message "diagnostic track bad or missing."  I have not heard
the term diagnostic track before but I'm guessing it's the place where
bad track information is permanently stored.  Since my RLL controller
permits entry of bad tracks during LL format, I decided to enter the LL
format routine through debug and re-enter all the bad tracks that were
listed on the quality assurance sheet that came with the drive.  Of course,
after that I used fdisk and DOS format to create a viable D: drive but
DiskFix still complains about the diagnostic track.  BTW, without explan-
ation, Spinrite refused to do its low level format and optimization on
this disk (DiskFix and Spinrite look very similar - is Gibson Research
the common supplier?)

I'm wondering what might be broken here.  My controller is a Seagate
ST-22R.  Is it creating a diagnostic track that is unacceptable, or for
that matter, is my assumption about the diagnostic track wrong?  Note
that if I hadn't used PC Tools or Spinrite on this drive, I would
probably not think anything was wrong with it.  I sent a fax to PC Tools
technical support but they have not responded so I am seeking the wisdom
of the net.  Thanks.

Roger Levy
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From: khor@bnr.ca (Kyle Hor)
Subject: Re: Help!! *Two* parallel printers from 1 PC??????????????????????????????
Reply-To: khor@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:38:12 GMT

In article <C0J4C8.L0G@brunel.ac.uk>, Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner) writes:
|> 
|>      I am running a laser printer from my PC's parallel port. Now I'd 
|> like to add a parallel dot matrix printer as well. 
|> 
|>      Can I *add* a parallel port to my PC? 
Sure you can. XT's used to come without //ports and one have to purchase a
card to plug it in.  Just jumper it to an unused IRQ and set the DIP switches
to make it LPT2: or whatever.

|>      Can I use a serial port to run a parallel printer? 
Directly, no no :).  Use a hw converter, too involved.

|>      Can I get a switch thing to direct my output from one port 
|>      between two printers?
Parallel IO is more subceptible to noise than serial.  Tried a simple one
before.  You just have to ensure good inteference shielding.

|>      Is there any other way I can get this going?
|> 
How about converting the dot matrix to serial.  After all you wouldn't print
graphics to it.  And the text printing would be slower than the 9600 baud
rate transfer.

............................................................................
. Kyle Hor                    .    /       / _   .  Email  khor@bnr.ca     .
. Bell-Northern Research Ltd. .   /__\  / / /_\  .  Phone  (613) 763-2488  .
. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada     .  / \  \/ /  \__  .  ESN          393-2488  .
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................  standard disclaimer, 2 cents opinion  ....................
.............  searching forever, for the perfect solution  ................
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From: nadkarni@ashok.lkg.dec.com (ashok p. nadkarni)
Subject: Request info on Fujitsu hard disk, Talon CD drive
Reply-To: nadkarni@ashok.lkg.dec.com (ashok p. nadkarni)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:30:42 GMT



I'm looking for comments (regarding performance, reliability etc.)
on the following products -

Fujitsu M2622T 12ms IDE, 330MB hard disk
Talon TA200 CD-drive SCSI-2, 300KB/s transfer rate

If you have any experience (+/-) or knowledge about either of these,
I'd appreciate your input.

Thanks

/Ashok
From: al885@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerard Pinzone)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: EISA bus speed with ISA cards onboard?
Date: 6 Jan 93 04:23:24 GMT
Reply-To: al885@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerard Pinzone)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


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.

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From: pastor@prc.unisys.com (Jon Pastor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: scanners (handheld, 256 grayscale)
Date: 6 Jan 93 18:29:43 GMT
Organization: not much...

> In article <oneil.726211841@cwis>, oneil@cwis.unomaha.edu (Sharon O'Neil) 
> writes:
|> aa479@Freenet.carleton.ca (Michael Wolff) writes:
|> 
|> If you want to do OCR, don't bother with
|> a handheld, because it is way too time consuming.

Not my experience; depends on how much you need to do.  If you need to scan
in dozens of pages of text per day, Sharon is probably right; if you need to
scan in the odd paragraph or pages, a handheld is actually easier to use (IMHO)
for scanning text than images -- requires less accuracy in speed and
orientation of the scanner.

I got a Mustek 800GS, 256 gray-scale and up to 800DPI in line mode; haven't
used it over 300DPI yet, but have done a fair amount of OCR using the Perceive
package shipped with the scanner.  Between the OCR and spell-checking, it's
pretty painless -- much better than having to enter by hand.  I have found
that the OCR can handle multi-fonts reasonably well, and also (surprisingly)
distortions caused by sloppy scanning.

The Mustek also came with Micrografx Picture Publisher LE, which I like a
whole lot...  I've even ordered the Retail version ($129 additional), which
handles JPEG and does a bunch of other things the LE version doesn't.

I was underwhelmed by the documentation for the scanner itself, and for the
basic scanning utilities, but the documentation for Perceive OCR is not bad,
and the documentation for Picture Publisher is pretty good; I understand that
the Retail edition docs are very good, but I haven't seen them yet.  I haven't
tried Mustek tech support, but am not expecting much; Micrografx tech support
has been pretty helpful.
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