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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DEE ONE SYS
From: rrauenza@zeus.calpoly.edu (Who, Me??)
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 20:18:10 GMT
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo, CA 93407

ternlund@CS.ColoState.EDU (John Ternlund) writes:
>DEE ONE SYSTEMS MAIL ORDER:
>
>   A friend of mine just ordered a 486 dx 50 from them a couple of months ago.
>It took them a while to get it to him, but the system according to him works
>great.  

   I bought a 486dx 33 a month ago, too.  (A friend ordered for me
   since he had dealt with them before - with no problems...) The first
   machine showed up very quickly, although the power supply was bad
   and the case was slightly cracked.  UPS  was blamed for the
   damage...  Oh, also the monitor was acting strangely.  It probably
   needed to be degaussed...  (I posted about this a while ago)

   After sending it back, a _few_weeks_ later I got my new system
   (different monitor, too).  It works fine and I haven't had a problem
   with it...  except, well, the DB9 port was /upside down/.  It was
   setup as:

	    ___________
	   / . . . . . \
	  /   . . . .   \
          ---------------

	  Note that the 5 pins are on the smaller end of the 
	  connector.

   It was simple to fix, however.  I unscrewed the metal plate from the
   IO card and turned it around.  Is this unusual to come across??     

   Before you buy from them, call their support line.  If you get
   frustrated because you can't get through for hours on end, then you
   may not want to deal with them.  For the last couple of weeks, rumor
   has it that they've had the phone off the hook.  (They lost some
   support personel).  A couple of Saturdays ago I called at 8:05 am.
   The phone rang for 2 minutes... I hung up, and immediately tried
   again, and it was busy.  I called sales, though, and they 
   were helpful.  

   I don't know if all companies do this, but something nice about Dee
   One is that they do supply all documentation and even include a few
   extra screws and other goodies.

   I don't regret buying from them (It was a great price!), but it was
   a lot of frustration I didn't expect (well, halfway expect..)

   I hope their user support gets up and running again.  When you do
   talk to sales, though, I'd suggest asking them when they expect to
   have user support fully functioning again.  

   All in all, it IS a nice machine.  I think I just had the bad luck
   of having a faulty machine in the middle of their user/technical
   support upheaval.  

   Rich


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From: ccsed@gdr.bath.ac.uk (Ed Dawes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help with mystery board from PROCOMP??
Date: 6 Nov 92 17:17:48 GMT
Organization: Bath University Computing Services, UK

Hi all,

Im trying to find out some info about a 16-Bit Board that I found lying
around in a box.

Its made by a company call PROCOMP that I can find no trace of!
It looke like it might be a SCSI controller, but Im not sure.

The only part type numbers might be:

       8N01442    or
       M188 (2.2)

I would appreciate any info either on the board itself, or contact details
of the company itself (it seems to be an american company) either by email
(as below) or posted to the group.

thanks,
Ed

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:29309 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:14514 mi.misc:723 comp.sys.ibm.pc:830
From: bwehr@eccdb1 (M. Bruce Wehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.net,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,mi.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: IBM PCNet backup solutions?
Followup-To: poster
Date: 9 Nov 1992 20:38:19 GMT
Organization: Ford Motor Co.
NNTP-Posting-Host: eccdb1.pms.ford.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

    I just inherited a network of over 100 IBM PS/2s of various
    flavors running DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1 and IBMs PCNet software.
    I have been tasked to recommend, purchase, install and administrate
    a departmental backup strategy.

    Having my roots in Unix, I would prefer a network based unattended
    solution, but I will settle for anything better than floppies.
    The unofficial divisional policy talks about 3 types of users
    - "1) The light user can use floppies with the DOS backup
    command; 2) Moderate users can share the portable tape unit
    that connect to the parallel port; 3) The heavy user can get
    a streaming tape drive for his/her system."

    I would like to establish a common solution for all users. Taking
    advantage of the PCNet would be beneficial too, I believe.
    Unfortunately, having a stronger background in Unix based hardware,
    software and solutions, I find myself at a disadvantage in the PC
    world.

    I'm looking for a place to start. Any suggestions, pointers or comments
    (as long as they're not rude :-) would be greatly appreciated. Please
    email any words of wisdom. I have directed follow-ups to me.

    Many thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,connect.audit
From: hdrw@ibmpcug.co.uk (Howard Winter)
Subject: Re: **HELP** My AMI BIOS got zapped - need new one
X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are those of the author
	alone and may not represent the views of the IBM PC User Group.
Organization: The IBM PC User Group, UK.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:22:22 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.033409.21730@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> jav2d@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jason Adams Vanvalkenburgh) writes:
>You can get a new BIOS.  I just saw a company given
>for the same reason by another netter.  The phone
>number was 1-800-800-BIOS.

Does anyone know of a contact number in (or from) England ?
A friend of mine wants to upgrade his AMI BIOS so that he can
install an IDE drive.

It's not possible to call US  800... numbers from here.

Thanks,
Howard.

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From: msimmons@ec.uwa.oz.au (Michael Simmons - mgmt_staff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra PRO 2meg ISA
Date: 6 Nov 1992 02:28:47 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: decel.ecel.uwa.edu.au

bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:

>slug@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Wowbagger The Infinitely Prolonged) writes:

>>Um... I could be way off base here, but in most computers now, the memory is
>>*NOT* on the ISA bus.  It is on a seperate memory bus that is usually 32-bits
>>wide.

>The problem is that since the ISA version of the PRO is on the ISA bus,
>it's memory must be mapped into somewhere in the lower 16MB.  A board
>on the ISA bus has only 16 address lines going to it.  I would think
>there should be a way using the fancy memory mapping capablilities of
>the 386 to map 2 megs of the first 16MB of RAM on the 32bit memory bus 
>somewhere else in the 32bit address space, making a gap in the lower 16MB 
>for the PRO to use.  I guess Windows' would have to cooperate on this, and 
>maybe it isn't set up to do this.  

Not possiable! The CPU can only map logical addresses to physical addresses.
The PRO's memory (on the ISA Bus) and the Mother boards memory (on the 32bit
memory bus) memory would occupy the same physical addresses. A memory
conflict would occur before it even gets to the CPU. I strong suspect that
most ISA mother boards with onboard memory would block the data comming
from the ISA bus.This means that for mother boards with more than 16MB onboard
the only address accesses which make it to the ISA bus is the C0000 to DFFFF
address range. The PRO's Memory would be invisable.
The olivetti M486 (their first) is the only machine I know of that allowed the
bottom 16MB of motherboard memory to be physically remapped.

>I sympathize with you Pro owners who are having problems, but the ones
>who are not having the problems (those with 12MB or less) are some of
>the lucky few PC users who have drivers for their video board that use
>flat linear addressing.

If you want to have more than 14MB of ram and be able to memory map 2MB or more
of video ram then it is time to buy a EISA or LOCAL bus mother board AND video
card.

I personaly hope that hardware designers will come out with machines designed
to boot OS/2, NT, NextStep etc only. By this I mean a machine that HAS NO VGA
,SVGA,EGA,CGA card. Nice clean accelerated graphics cards with flat linear
addressing and bitmap planes are the way to go. VGA can be emulated in a
window. Tacking on more bank switched memory only results in a mess.
May be there could be some hardware assistance in emulating VGA on a decent
video card but not the other way round.

Xref: sparky comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:29800 comp.os.os2.misc:36385
From: ma@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Memory errors
Date: 13 Nov 92 09:26:33 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <Bxn7pu.AyA@rice.edu>, skadron@owlnet.rice.edu (Kevin Skadron) writes:
> 	I have a 386-SX clone with 8 Megs of RAM (1 M SIPPS), and am running
> OS/2 2.0.  About two weeks ago I started getting Trap 2 errors and they have
> been increasing in frequency.  The obvious guess would be that I have a
> memory chip failing, but I can't interpret the address I get from the Trap 2
> message.  The Trap 2 message lists the register contents, then something to
> this effect:
> 
> 		##0160:fff6453f  -  000d:a53f
> 		60000,9084
> 
> I get the same values above almost every time it crashes.  Does anyone know
> how to interpret this to figure out which SIPP is going bad?
> 
> 	A second question: I have once received a Trap 8 (with the same 
> address).  What is a Trap 8?
> 
> 	Thanks!
>  
I don't know about OS/2 2.0. I had a memory problem with a 486 running DOS.
It also has 8 megs of RAM. When I ran some large software like Windows, it
gave an error message and halted. I called techinician and did some thing like:
pull out all 4 simms in bank 1, start the machine as the machine as only 4
megs of RAM, no problem. Then put (replace) the rest 4 in bank 0 one each time.
with one simm the system halted. So I identified that bad simm and asked the
PC company to send me a good one . Now it is ok.
Maybe you can try the similar thing.
Hope it helps.
Ma

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: lauusitalo@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
Subject: Re: 80ns vs. 70ns
Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:21:19 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.143312.24368@philabs.philips.com>, kkt@philabs.philips.com (Kim-Kiat Tan) writes:
> 	Just wonder, anyone has any information on any significant system 
> performance difference of using 80ns vs. 70ns chip for RAM ?
> 

There is a slight difference in performance if you are using 80ns chips in
computer which needs 70ns. It won't work :)

If you have to use wait states then there is difference. But if your motherboard
accepts 80ns with same waitstates that 70ns then there is no difference.
Memory chips deliver their contents syncronously to the clock and the clock
speed does not change with memory speed.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: fsaleem@admiral.uucp (Farzan Saleem)
Subject: Gateway Telepath Modem File/Summary...
Reply-To: fsaleem@admiral.uucp (Farzan Saleem)
Organization: The Grid/Waffle BBS, 203-661-2873, -1279, -0450, -2967
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:31:09 GMT

Hi netters. I think this question has been asked before numerous times,
so I am hoping someone has the replies compiled, etc. I own a Gateway
386 so I was thinking of getting their telepath modem. I know it had
some problems in the past, but does anyone know if they were fixed, etc.
and how well they do now? The price is certainly good...
 
If the information if compiled somewhere so that I can FTP it 
please let me know.  
 
Also, anyone know other EXTERNAL 14.4 modems that are competitively
priced ($200-$250)?
 
FS!

FSALEEM@ADMIRAL.UUCP
4_FSALEEM@FAIR1.FAIRFIELD.EDU

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From: h8850513@d10.wu-wien.ac.at (Michael Tesar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Bull Micral 75
Date: 13 Nov 1992 18:28:34 GMT
Organization: Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: d10.wu-wien.ac.at

I have a Bull Micral 75 with 2MB ram. I would like to upgrade to
4MB or 6MB, but the original cards are too expensive.
Which cheaper Cards can I use?

Thank you!

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From: rgn@sc (Rob Norris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: My Oxy order...
Date: 6 Nov 1992 16:47:15 GMT
Organization: Appalachian State University
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: sc.cs.appstate.edu

I just received a call from Oxy informing me that my
machine shipped yesterday (6 weeks exactly from my order date).
I should have it Monday.  If anyone is interested, I will post
next week about how the machine looks/performs, etc.


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rgn@cs.appstate.edu
(704)262-2296
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: fluet@ee.ualberta.ca (Kevin Blaine Fluet)
Subject: Re: Microlab -- Probably going Bankrupt!
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:22:09 GMT

leffler@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Bob Leffler) writes:
>LAst Friday, all their employees walked off the job.  The company was
>introuble.  The symptoms described about receiving something other than
>what you ordered appears to have been quite common.  The local news
>channel spent about 10 minutes interviewing the employees.  The
>employees claimed they were forced to lie.  They reported that both the
>State Attorney General and the Post Office had started investigations.

Holy cow!  I sure am glad I read this!  I was going to order a Tape drive
from them today!  I assume that this means that they will be going out of
business pretty soon, probably taking everyone's money from current orders
down with them.

-----------------------
Kevin Fluet
fluet@ee.ualberta.ca
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel)
Subject: XGA-2 card and which monitor??
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, 12866
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 14:15:37 GMT


Well, I'm considering getting a PS/2 model 77.  It comes with the new
XGA-2 card.  I can also get the IBM 9517 (color trinitron resolution
at 1024x768, 72Hz NI).  However, I heard that a NEC 5FG can also
support the card *and* do more resolutions - is this true?

Along the same lines - can XGA-2 run software that supports SVGA (can
it do SVGA or will it emmulate VGA only)?  Opinions... 

Thanks,

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Math & CS Dept.		| Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 | (518)584-5000 Ext 2391

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
Subject: Looking for Single-board PCs
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:16:35 GMT

   Could someone give me the names and telephone numbers of companies that
sell single-board PC-compatible computers for passive-backplanes?  I am
looking for sinble-board PCs for both AT/IDE backplanes and EISA backplanes,
and preferably with as many on-board features as possible.  (Things such
as the serial & parallel ports, floppy & HD interfaces, and RAM should be
on-board)

   If anyone could help me with this, it would be appreciated.

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From: smintz@sedona.intel.com (Stephen Mintz exp 11/92~)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Computer gives three beeps when switched on if weather cold!!
Date: 12 Nov 92 18:45:19 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation
NNTP-Posting-Host: alamo.intel.com
Originator: smintz@alamo


Unless your CMOS keeps reseting itself, don't worry about it, CMOS is very
volitile, it erases VERY easy, you probably zapped it when you replaced the memory
simms, just set it back to your setting, and everything will be fine...and yes,
it is possible your CMOS data was corupted in some way giving you a parity error
(3 beeps) and having reset it, took care of the problem...
Stephen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tgao@cs.uiuc.edu (Tong Gao)
Subject: Is 8bit SCSI adaptor good enough?
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 22:58:10 GMT

I am thinking about buying a pc powered Bernolli 90 pro hard drive which comes 
with a 8 bit adaptor. My main concern is if the 8bit adaptor is fast enough.
Could somebody give me some advice on it? Also, I am a bit confused models of 
the 90mb Bernolli removable media drives. As far as I know, there are 
"transportable pro", "pc powered pro", and "insider pro" models. Could someone 
comment on these models? One last question, I was told that the 8 bit adaptor 
is put inside the unit, does this mean that I need another SCSI card to plug 
into the ISA slot? Thank you very much.

tong
tgao@cs.uiuc.edu
From: udo@ubla.novalis.public.sub.org (Udo Blatzheim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Distribution: world
Subject: Re: Re: HP VECTRA - Info wanted
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Date: 6 Nov 92 19:10:11 CET
Organization: home, sweet home

In article <5870137@pollux.svale.hp.com>,
	dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low) writes:
> >(Paul Stratton) 
> >We (Sierra Geophysics) have had nothing but trouble with our HP Vectra
> >486/33U.  HP took perfectly good hardware from other manufacturers (such

i wonder,  the  HP  VECTRA 486/33U has only 128KB cache.  Why ?

Is there a possibility to make an upgrade?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
Subject: Gateway 2000 - Phone queues
Reply-To: gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston)
Organization: Field Robotics Center, CMU
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:17:21 GMT

Food for thought...

Did any of the perennial Gateway 2000 gripers ever consider that by
making "daily calls" to check the progress of their late system, they
are the ones directly responsible for the long phones queues, etc?

Probably not.

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Field Robotics Center,          | did not record the tragic fact, that men have
Carnegie Mellon University      | gone to war and cut each other's throats
Pittsburgh, PA, 15213           | because they could not agree as to what was to
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position of CMU, FRC, RedZone,  | visible walks on earth.  Walter Stacey
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ez6806225@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg
Subject: ATI video driver problem
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:41:37 GMT

Help!
I just bought an ATI Vantage and found out that at 800x600x256 color modes,
certain programs like Photostyler and Painter cannot work (General Protection 
Fault or something like that). Strange thing is that it works fine under the
1024x768x256 color modes. I have a 14" monitor so I normally run Windows at
the 800x600 mode. Has anyone encountered this similar problem before? 
Is it a driver problem and if it is, how can I get an upgrade (ftp??).
Thanks for the time!
From: mehdi@armon.rain.com (Mehdi Attaran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Windows TV request
Keywords: Win TV Windows
Date: 12 Nov 92 06:17:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: armon.1992Nov12.061750.9825
Organization: Armon Public Access Unix System -- Portland, OR, USA

an anyone recommend a 'good' TV package for Windows.  Here's what I would like
to have:

- Cable Ready
- Super VGA compatible (1024X768, 256 colors)
- Ability to display TV in a re-sizable window, as well as full screen
- Ability to work in DOS as well as Windows
- Prefer stereo sound
- Should include software screen capture
- Should have Video input (for VCR, etc)

the first three items are must have.  

Is there anything out there with these features that does not cost more than a
projection TV?  ;-)


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From: slee@cse.unl.edu (Shiuh-Haw Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Help needed with Citizen GSX-140 . . .
Date: 8 Nov 1992 03:44:18 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cse.unl.edu


Hi,  
  After I installed the color kit and the color ribbon into the printer
(Citizen GSX-140, 24 pin Dot matrix), I couldn't print my paper in black ink
anymore.  It just keep on printing color and I have no idea what to do.  I even
get color printing when using the print screen.  Any help would be mostly 
appreciated.
  Thanks in advance.



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From: REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Cache speed for 50 MHz 486DX?
Date: 7 Nov 92 21:05:59 GMT
Organization: University of Maine System


  You got screwed!  Yes, the cache must be less than 20 nS...
Considerably less, given a couple nD for address set up and data latch and
another 5-6 nS for the lookup (ie is the data in the cache? operation).

I am told 5 nS tags (commonly built into controllers for direct mapped) and 10-
12 nS cache SRAMS.  You just bought a DX50 that will be outperformed by (or at
least matched by) DX33's, as well as DX2/50's!  Thank god (or whatever) that
the internal 8K cache is fairly effective!

Jeff Andle   In search of a new sig!   DOD #3005  1976 KZ 900