HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: fstancl@email.tuwien.ac.at (Franz STANCL)
Subject: Conner 200Meg drive jumpers
Keywords: IDE, jumper, harddisk
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:05:14 GMT

sorry for another boring 'jumper'-question...
struggling now for about one week i decided to ask you for help ;)

I am trying to get a Conner 3204F HD to work. i already know all data
about cylinders, heads, etc. 
But i have no idea about the jumpers :(
It should run as Master (it is the only HD in the system)
I located some jumpers on front of HD:
looks like that:
                          J1   J2
                       .....   ..
                        ....  

and some other directly on the board:
                          .. DSP
                          ..

on the back there is:  J5 ...     (looks like a power connector ?)

--
do i have to set something like 'single drive' on AT-BUS I/O card?
(made in taiwan..) there i have jumpers for:
 - I/O check ready   (no idea what that is for)
 - Drive enable      (probably to enable floppies)
 - HDD enable

--
info about my system:
386/40 motherboard, AMD-cpu, AMI BIOS (5/5/91), msdos 5.0, trident-vga,
5.25 & 3.5 Floppy

--
one problem i solved:  (and someone else might have similar problems..)
Conner 3204F has following parameters:
1366 cyl, 8 heads, 38 sec/track, precomp:65535

BUT: damned MSDos 5.0 only calculates till cyl 1024 !
so i always got only 150 Meg after high-lvl-format (yep, format works
now, but nothing else :(  )
since IDE is said to be intelligent i changed parameters to:
683 cyl, 16 heads, ...   and it works (abt. 200 Meg now ;)

Thanx for your help!
franz.

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				    Institute for General Chemistry
e-mail: fstancl@email.tuwien.ac.at                    A-1060 Vienna
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From: Rick_Michael_Cortese@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Questions about 486's
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 17:39:53 PDT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

$.02, I've heard (Computer Shopper?) that cache size on or even the presence
of a cache on a 486 is less important then on a 386 class machine. The 486
have a fast 6k (or something like that) cache built into the chip. Large
caches beyond maybe 64k mainly benefit the seller vs the user. Sounds like
a great price though anyway. 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro)
Subject: How to tell if a controller supports SCSI-2?
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:40:22 GMT


We have a couple of systems here in the lab with DTC3290HD EISA SCSI
controllers.  Does anyone know if these controllers support SCSI-2?
The manual doesn't say, except to mention that there is a SCSI-2
high-density external connector on the back of the controller.  No
mention of whether the controller itself supports the extended SCSI-2
command set.

The reason I ask is because the controller only seems to recognize 1GB
of a 1.2GB Maxtor Panther P0-12S drive.  I understand this is problem
with SCSI-1, but not SCSI-2.  Is there any way to get at the extra
200MB?  Or is 1.2GB the unformatted capacity?

Paul
-- 
Paul Secinaro
pss1@kepler.unh.edu
Synthetic Vision and Pattern Analysis Laboratory
UNH Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
From: ebrown@tap.kodak.com (Eric Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Speedstar 24 does have 1280x1024 non-interlaced. drivers?
Date: 13 Oct 92 12:32:29 GMT
Reply-To: ebrown@tap.kodak.com
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company


I'm getting 1280x1024x16colors NON-interlaced under NT with some
weird mixing up of the NT drivers. This is on my Diamond Speedstar 24.
So obviously the card supports this - it looks great! Unfortunately,
I can't find any Windows drivers to support it.

My eyes would greatly appreciate anybody that knows where such a 
driver is.

NOTE: I said SpeedStar 24, NOT 24X.

Thanks in advance,
Eric.
ebrown@tap.kodak.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: Seokmin Ahn <smahn@vx.cis.umn.edu>
Subject: Q: NEC 3FGx or Sony 1304?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6FF14D46601C36A@me51-3-106.me.umn.edu>
X-Xxdate: Mon, 12 Oct 92 11:41:08 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d11
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:38:58 GMT

Hi! netters,

I am going to purchase a super-VGA monitor.
I was suggested two monitors by the dealer.
NEC 3FGx and Sony 1304.

Your recommendation for these two monitors will be greately appreciated.
From: David.Norman@ttlg.UUCP (David Norman)
Sender: postmaster@ttlg.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SIS Chipset EISA motherboard any good?
Date: 10 Oct 92  00:02:38 mst

Hello Andrew!

04 Oct 92 19:13, Andrew Ukrainec wrote to All:

 AU> From: ukrainec@nimios.eng.mcmaster.ca (Andrew Ukrainec)
 AU> hod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!maccs!mcshub!nimios!ukrainec
 AU> News groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: SIS Chipset EISA
 AU> motherboard any good? Organization: Communications Research Laboratory,
 AU> McMaster Univ @Message-ID: <1992Oct4.181550.12693@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
 AU> @References: <1992Sep30.150438.5012@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
 AU> Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 19:13:18 GMT
 AU>
 AU> In article <1992Sep30.150438.5012@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
 AU> sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO) writes:
 AU>
 >> Does anybody has experience with SIS Chipset EISA bus motherboard?
 >> The motherboard I am thinking about has 6 EISA bus expansion slots, and
 >> 2 ISA bus expansion slots (16-bits). It uses the SIS Chipset as opposed
 >> to the INTEL Chipset and the manual claims to have EISA spec. 3.1
 >> compliance. It can use 25/33/50 MHz 486 cpu (jumper configuered).  Also
 >> able to use 1,4, or 16MB SIMMs, giving a max. of 128MB RAM on board!
 AU>
 AU> Along the same lines, has anyone any experience with the new OPTI chip
 AU> set for EISA?  I thought it was suppose to be out at the end of this year,
 AU> but the other day I went into a store and saw a EISA motherboard with
 AU> 4 OPTI chips on it, 2 of which I assume are the bus mastering chips.
 AU> No Intel chips were to be seen (except the CPU, of course).
 AU> Are they available already?
 AU>
 AU> Thanks in advance,
 AU> Andy
 AU> --
 AU>          Andrew Ukrainec                 ukrainec@nimios.eng.mcmaster.ca
 AU>           <    (*) >               /  \             < (*)    >
 AU> Communications Research Laboratory      McMaster Univ, Hamilton, Ontario
 AU>
 AU> -+- Fred-Uf 1.8k
 AU>  + Origin: Passed through TTLG:  UUCP <> ProgNet gateway (42:1000/2.0)
 AU>

You will find the SIS Chioset in the high end Motherboards. as for the new OPTI chip set, I have onley know about the old one, and stay away from it.

David

 * Origin: Dave's Place - Edmonton Alberta (42:100/37)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu (DHALIWAL BIKRAM SINGH)
Subject: AMI BIOS
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:20:25 GMT

I installed a new 386-40 motherboard in my computer, as well as
4MB of 70ns memory.  When I check the system with my variety of diagnostic
tools it reports that I have 3712K of totl mem.  This is about
384K short of what it should be.

I disabled all ROM shaddowing in the AMI-BIOS (Date 1991) but still
I get this problem.  I called the guy who I bought it from and he says
that with AMI BIOS the 384K ROM-shadow is not negotiable, he says it 
speeds the video up and with 4megs I shouldn't video.  

I think his excuse is B.S. , Does anyone out there know of how I can
gain all my memory using this type of configureation??

Please E-Mail me, And I will also post the solution. Thanks to ALL!!
.

   
-- 
 
.............................................
 Bikram Dhaliwal (dhaliwa@civ.toronto.edu) 
 Toronto        (dhaliwa@ecf.toronto.edu)
From: rteasdal@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Rusty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Noisy CPU cooling fans?
Date: 15 Oct 92 03:52:09 GMT
Organization: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CSc Department


	Last week I ordered, sight unseen (and sound unheard!) 
an IceCap 4 CPU fan for my 486 machine, which is a heat sink plus
fan arrangement designed to keep the chip from overheating, with
the consequent errors and possible permanent failure.

	I installed it tonight and turned it on. My first reaction
was "Holy shit! This thing's as loud as a vacuum cleaner!" In fact,
I thought that something must have gone wrong with the power supply
fan, so loud was the roar. But disconnecting the IceCap got rid of
the noise posthaste. When it was reconnected, the noise returned in
full and irritating force. Even with the cover on the machine, it
was still far too loud to contemplate doing anything intellectually
demanding in the neighborhood.

	Has anyone else used the IceCap 4? Is mine just a bad unit
or something, with fried bearings, or are they all this way? Are      
there any other makes of cooling fan which don't suffer this awful
debilitation? (although now, with this monstrosity adhesively stuck
to the top of my CPU, I doubt that I could install anything different
if I wanted to!)




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From: cnews@umr.edu (UMR Usenet News Post)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Adding an IDE hard drive external
Summary: How to do this?
Keywords: IDE hard drive external
Date: 16 Oct 92 04:03:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: umr.1992Oct16.040305.26733
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla

This article was probably generated by a buggy news reader.
From: swinokur@pbs.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: lightning communications
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:30:12 EDT
Organization: PBS:Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, VA

>>i've tried ringing Lightning Communications Inc on the numbers i have:
>>	1-800-433-4420
>>	1-714-457-9429 [bbs]
>>	1-714-457-8004 [fax]
>>but they aren't at home [not even the fax!].
>> 
>>are they all on holiday,
>>have the numbers changed, or
>>has something struck Lightning?
> 
> I've been calling them for two weeks to check on an order.  No Answer.
> I'll bet bankruptcy or the like has struck Lightning Communications.
> 
Bingo, guys. Lightning went under about 5 weeks ago. You'll have to do
business with another company. Word has it they aren't coming back, not
even under a bankruptcy reorganization. Dead. Kaput. Too bad, they had a
great product at a very low price. Guess the profit margin was just too
small.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mike@ravel.udel.edu (Michael James Porter)
Subject: Re: Gateway and Chapter 11
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 16:26:52 GMT


This stupid rumor keeps popping up because people don't read carefully.
nothGATE is having financial problems, not GATEway.  jeez.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mmaston@netcom.com (Michael Maston)
Subject: Re: Q: NEC 3FGx or Sony 1304?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 03:28:55 GMT

Others may disagree, but I did a side by side comparison of the two and
found the Sony 1304HG to appear sharper and its colors brighter.  Also,
the 3FGx seems to have a lot of extra plastic baffling around the tube, making
it physically much larger, but the tube is only a bit bigger.  Anyway, I
have been completely satisfied with the Sony so far.

Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ATI Graphics Ultra Plus
From: Spartacus At CunyVM <I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Date: Friday, 9 Oct 1992 18:56:06 EDT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center

In article <1992Oct9.001348.29555@utdallas.edu>, goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K.
Goyal) says:
>
>Does anyone have a # for ATI?
    (416)-756-0718;  Fax (416)-756-0720
>Is the Ultra + out yet?
>I have seen an ad for it in the newest PC Magazine.
>CDW prices it at $300.  Not that bad. (the Ultra Pro is $500)
>
   Retail: Plus $399; Pro $599

   Street price (usually 40-45% off retail)
   I would expect Plus $219-240; Ultra $329-360
   although I think it would be best to wait a few weeks
   after they become available.  Dealers tend to keep
   the price on the high end for the first few weeks

>Are OS/2 2.0 drivers included?

Don't know...but I really hope they do.
Now that the 32bit GRE beta is out...they should release
some 32bit drivers  *fingers crossed*

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                              |      Edward Galarza,
     I18BC@CunyVM.Cuny.Edu    |      Brooklyn College Of The
     I18BC@CunyVM.BitNet      |      City University Of New York
------------------------------+      "Que viva el OS/2!"
From: blaubsch@gluttony.reed.edu (Bertrand Michael Laubsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: turn off internal harddrive
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:12:32 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Oct12.211232.17917
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

Is there any way to turn off the internal harddrive and later turn
it back on while the computer is on. Will disconnecting and reconnecting
the power to the drive be safe and not crash a program that doesn't use
the drive?

--bert
From: anos@elmrd6.ineab.ikea.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SEAGATE IDE + Philips AT (1988 Bios)
Date: 10 Oct 92 20:44:51 +0200
Organization: IKEA Northern Europe AB


Hi !

I have a friend who have bought a SEAGATE ST3144A (125 MB) IDE disk. His
computer is an "old" Philips AT/286 with a ROM BIOS dated Oct 1988. Now,
a proper device type is NOT listed in the SETUP options for the hard disk,
and when we tried types that seemed to be alike this Seagate, the whole
computer locked up during boot.

Is there somebody who have tried to install a "newer" IDE disk in one of
these AT models with success, or know what device type this disk represents.

However, I suspect that the only solution is to switch BIOS to an updated
revision, but anyway if YOU could help him...

/Anders
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| located in ...         | Helsingborg, Sweden                              |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mengsoo@bnr.ca (Meng Soo)
Subject: Re: 2 stupid questions
Reply-To: mengsoo@bnr.ca (Meng Soo)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 14:03:41 GMT


> 1. When people say "VL bus" are they referring to local bus???

That's partially right. "VL" refers to the new VESA Local Bus standard.

> 2. Do local bus machines have ISA or EISA specific slots???
>    Or, can ISA cards be plugged into local bus slots?

As far as I know, the only local bus implementations are on ISA slots, since they will have the greatest performance increase. A local bus slot is basically an ISA slot with an added extension on one end (kinda like a 32bit slot but better :)
The exension (local bus part) runs at the same speed as the processor and is connected to the CPU's local bus. Thus, a normal ISA card can be plugged into the ISA part of the slot, but it will be a waste of a perfectly good (and fast) slot.

>  Oops, I guess that was 3 stupid questions.

There are no stupid questions, just really dumb answers.

Meng Soo
From: arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: speed ratings for 80387 chips
Date: 11 Oct 92 14:35:30 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

I've noticed that most mail-order houses now charge the same price for
any speed of 80387-DX math coprocessor.  Is there any reason not to use
a 33 MHz, 80387 in a 20 MHz system?  Yes, I know the faster coprocessor
won't run at 33 MHz in the 20 MHz system :-) .   But I'm thinking about 
upgrading to a 33 MHz motherboard sometime and want to avoid having to
buy a new 387 when I do so.
________________________________________________________________________
Raymond W. Arritt                     |  Dept. of Physics and Astronomy  
Assistant Professor                   |  University of Kansas 
arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu             |  Lawrence, KS  66045  
Apr  1 12:29:21 timed[92]: THIS MACHINE IS A SLAVE
Apr  1 12:29:27 timed[92]: THIS MACHINE IS A CANDIDATE
Apr  1 12:29:31 timed[92]: This machine is master

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: lchiu@animal.gcs.co.nz (Laurence Chiu)
Subject: Cyl 0 Track 0 Bad on Hard Drive
Organization: GCS Limited, Wellington, New Zealand
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 02:14:43 GMT

I have an original IBM XT. The hard drive appears to have croaked. I don't
know what kind of drive but it could even be IBM original.
Anyway tried Norton Disk Doctor with the /FORMAT option (I think). It
could not read the partition table and could not even LLF the drive.
Then tried Ontrack Disk manager to do a LLF. 
Finished it okay with a bunch of errors.                           
When I was doing the
partitioning it said track 0 cyl 0 bad. Is this the end? Should I dump
the thing or there any other software around to resurrect this drive.
Thanks

Laurence Chiu
From: lbriskin@digi.lonestar.org (Leonid Briskin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SVGA PARADISE
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:48:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: DSC Communications, Plano Tx.


Hi, netters !

I own 386/33Mhz system with PARADISE SVGA 1M clone card and ADONICS-6
non-interlaced multy-synch monitor.
When I use 800*600*16 driver from Win 3.1 everythink looks O'K.
But if I install 1024*768*256 or 800*600*256 drivers my monitor
loose synchronization. The picture became bigger the screen and even
manualy I couldnot adjust it. Using VGAMODE utility does not help.

I cannot figure out where is the problem : SVGA, monitor or drivers.
Please E-mail to lbriskin@digi.lonestar.org or answer by news

Thanks in advance,

Leonid Briskin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jas37876@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (John A. Slagel)
Subject: Re: Compaq Portable II Video
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:28:07 GMT
Keywords: Compaq Portable II Video Compatibility

dfeldman@lookout.it.uswc.uswest.com (David Feldman) writes:

>Is this display compatible with anything to get graphics resolution modes higher than CGA?


    If I remember correctly, and the Portable II is the one with the 
    orange gas-plasma display, it can go do a mode similiar to the CGA
    640x200 hires mode, but will go up to 640x400.  However, this is
    only B&W.  Or orange and black, in your case.  I don't know how to 
    set it, but Compaq Technical Reference lists it, if I remember right.
    I used to have a graphics driver for a graph library called GEOGRAPH
    that used it, that's how I know it exists.

    Good luck, I'd call Compaq if I were you.



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  John A. Slagel, email: jas37876@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: iks@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Ivan K. Samuelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Mouse interrupt docs
Date: 14 Oct 92 19:24:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.2852
Distribution: usa
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana

Does anyone know where I could get old of some documentation on all the
interrupts that interface with the Micrsoft mouse? I'm wanting to learn
more of how a program reads the mouses activities. I have a lot of source
code in C (which is what I primarily use), but they're not documented
very well. What I'm interested in is more of a table of the interrupts
and the required entries of the registers to access that interrupt/BIOS
routine.

If anyone knows of some good books or an FTP site that contains documentation
on this, please let me know.

Thanks,
	Ivan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.bsd,comp.org.eff.talk
From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: Question on Diamond Clock Synthesizer
Reply-To: Rich@rice.edu
Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
	University
	<1992Oct12.044838.15514@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
	<1992Oct12.061220.17620@netcom.com> <1bf4b5INNh4n@agate.berkeley.edu>
Distribution: inet
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 04:36:32 GMT

In article <1bf4b5INNh4n@agate.berkeley.edu> curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes:
   In article <1992Oct12.061220.17620@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes:
   >
   >Why bother with Diamond,
   >When you can buy an Orchid's F1280 or Artix's GraphicsEngine.

   Because if Diamond's clocks were truly programmable, you could
   use a Diamond card to drive a fixed-sync monitor, like a used Sun
   gray-scale.  This would be a hefty boon, as there don't seem to 
   be large mono monitors available for PCs.

   c

Radius makes a 21" inch 1200x1024 mono monitor and Sigma Designs make
19" 1664x1200 mono and grey scale monitors.  Drivers haven't been
written yet, but these two are prime candidates.

If anyone has info on other high resolution monochrome hardware,
please send me a note!  Rich
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From: robin@haas.berkeley.edu (Robin Chung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,ucb.cs.msgs
Subject: Help with IBM PC laptop Keyboard driver / Windows
Date: 12 Oct 1992 18:41:07 GMT
Organization: Haas School of Business, Berkeley
Distribution: ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: haas.berkeley.edu


I bought a Japanese IBM PC portable laptop.  The keyboard keys are
displaced, and so it is slightly different from the US model...

However, Windows doesn't recognize this and still expects the keys where
the US keyboard has them.


Can anyone help?

Please reply either to

robin@haas.berkeley.edu

or

zingg@haas.berkeley.edu


-- 
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Mainframe Administrator		
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ksheth@oracle.uucp (Kaushal Sheth)
Subject: Re: Is 66DX2+$375 now better than 33DX+Overdrive later?
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA  94065
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:33:10 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

In article <1992Oct14.184230.26955@PA.dec.com> jeff@raga.zk3.dec.com (Jeff Anuszczyk - Don't blink or you'll miss the future changing) writes:
>Erik E. Rantapaa (rantapaa@s6.math.umn.edu) wrote:
>:
>: One thing that would help deciding this is an answer to this question:
>: Can the Overdrive chip operate in the absence of the original processor?
>: If buy Overdrive I can use the original processor in another motherboard?
>:
>
>Sadly no.  I believe that Intel specifically engineered the overdrive chip to
>use a few signals from the original processor preventing you from removing it. 
>That's why you need to place it in the PES slot and not just replace the
>original processor with a new one.  I'm sure they did this to prevent people
>from upgrading and flooding the market with older DX/33 chips.
>
>- Jeff

I just read in the October issue of BYTE (p. 30) that Intel has just come out 
with new Overdrive chips (50 and 66 MHz) that directly replace the old CPU.
Kaushal Sheth						ksheth@us.oracle.com
Oracle Consulting Group					Phone: 212 303-3935
New York						Fax  : 212 755-3016
From: crane@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Randy Crane)
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:01:04 GMT
Subject: IDE drives and old BIOS
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA