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From: gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting)
Subject: Re: Trouble with WD-7000ASC and Gravis UltraSound
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:55:25 GMT

d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se (Andreas Henning) writes:

>A friend of mine is having lots of trouble installing a Gravis
>UltraSound in his machine. The trouble is the WD-7000ASC
>SCSI card, which uses the same memory addresses.

Same memory addresses? Hmm... I'm sure you can try chacnging the address on
the SCSI card too, right? I've got a Gravis Ultrasound, WD-7000 FASST (which
is almost the same as the ASC) AND a Thunderboard in the same machine and all
is working perfectly. I've got my GUS on 240h, the TB on 220h and the SCSI 
controller at its default 320h. Have you checked the DMA channels on the 
two cards? My GUS uses dma 7, while the WD takes up DRQ 6 and DACK 6. 
E-mail me if you need help on the jumpers. I've got a brief dox on the jumpers
of both the WD-7000ASC and FASST (similar jumpers)

>He can't get it to work even if he changes IRQ and Port Address
>on the GUS. (IRQ 3,5,11) and Port Base Address (220h-260h) .

>Has anyone had similar experience with the GUS or any other card?
>He gets strange Memory Parity Errors all the time.

>Thanks in advance,

>Andreas Henning -- d2henan@dtek.chalmers.se
>		   Chalmers University of Technology

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From: antony@werple.apana.org.au (Antony Suter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Programming OPTI motherboard chipset?
Date: 29 Dec 1992 14:34:34 +1100
Organization: werple public-access unix, Melbourne
NNTP-Posting-Host: werple.apana.org.au

I have a 386/40 motherboard with an OPTI chipset. My AMI bios is the
latest type yet seems to be an early version of this type (ie. the
Advanced BIOS). My BIOS doesnt give me the option of running my ISA
bus at anything other than 8MHz.

Can someone tell my how to program the chipset to change the bus speed?

(from memory its the 381/382 chipset,
the cache is Write Back.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mroberds@mcs213c.cs.umr.edu (Mathew C Roberds)
Subject: Re: Packard Bell experiences and Best Buy service
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:08:05 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Keywords: Best Buy service Packard Bell 
Summary: Computers not the only things Best Buy can't fix 

In article <1i66qsINN61s@ub.d.umn.edu> cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu (Chris) writes:
>Packard Bell computers are POS's, they are junk dont buy 'em.
>  My father unfortunately bought a Legend 725DX (a 386 25mhz DX, I dont
>know why they call it a 725????) and it is full of problems.  First of
>all the 3 1/2 in floppy died. (Waited 2 months for Best Buy (NOT!) to
>return it fixed!!)  Then a month later more trouble!  When the computer

    Best Buy's service isn't very good on other items either.  I had an
AIWA stereo bought from them, that I took to their local service center
for repair...Paid $75 and they said they fixed it, a few weeks later it quit
again so I took it back and paid more (about $30 I think, maybe more) waited
about a week and a half and it STILL wasn't fixed right.  Moral:  

If you must buy expensive equipment from Best Buy, DON'T LET THEM FIX IT! Get
factory service if at all possible.

>He brought it to Best "BAD" Buy and had to wait 2.5 months for those
>SOBs to replace the motherboard and hard drive!!! (Oh yea, when he got
>it back, it lacked its 4 meg that it had!! Another trip to Bad Buy!).  
>A happy ending right? WRONG!!!! GUESS AGAIN!!!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: power good line from PS: what does it do
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:11:54 GMT

titus@smith.phys.ucalgary.ca (Titus Mathews) writes:

>Hi!  I would like to know what effect the "power good" line from the
>power supply has on the PC.  Specifically, I want to know how toggling
>this line differs from the pushing the reset button (I am told that
>the PC resets if the power good line goes low).

You've effectively answered your own question: the reset button forces 
the power-good line low; when you release the reset button the rise
of power-good starts a cold boot.  Some brute-force reset button hacks
just short the line to ground; the fancy ones disconnect the line from
the power supply, and have debouncing and such, but in effect they're
all the same.

Officially, "power good" is a report from the power supply that its output
voltages are within specifications:

    +5 V line >  +4.5 V
   +12 V line > +10.8 V
   -12 V line < -10.2 V   (or should that be ">" ?)

It's generally used only to drive the RESET pin on the master oscillator
chip (typically an 82284 but who knows what on the modern SLT system
boards?), where it's transformed into the onboard logic of + and -
reset and distributed where it's needed.  The spec for it is that it
needs to be able to source 100 uA and sink 1 mA.  (These specs from
the PS/2-50 hardware manual.)

Joe Morris / MITRE
From: atreya@swamp.alt.ns.ca (Lionheart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Pentum5
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 93 17:23:38 AST
Organization: The Swamp Public UUCP +1 (902) 461-4773

Hi everyone. I'm new here. I was wondering if anyone had information on 
the new 586 chip. Like for example when it's release date was and what it 
is capeble of doing, wether it's a RISC chip etc... please feel free to 
send me E-Mail telling me how stupid my questions sound. Anyone willing 
could also send me mail answering my questions. :) 
thankx
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.laptops
From: vsarkela@convex.csc.FI (Vesa S{rkel{)
Subject: Re: Backup Tape Units
Organization: Finnish Academic and Research Network Project - FUNET
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 21:43:32 GMT

In <sheldon.725747956@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu 
(Steve Sheldon) writes:

> We have been having some problems with our drive.  I'm not sure if the
>drive is bad or what.  But it doesn't seem to like it when we make a tape,
>move the tape backup to a different computer and try to read it back.

> Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't.  I'm suspecting that it's
>actually a problem with the computers printer port right now.

I have noticed that the backup software doesn't like QEMM. We have now 
the backup program on a bootable diskette without QEMM or other TSR's and
now we aren't having any problems...

I wish the backup program would be better, eg. running from batch file
something like: backup c: backup d:. I think there was supposedly new 
version coming this fall, experiences anyone?

>-- 
>sheldon@iastate.edu                Steve Sheldon
>Project Vincent                    ICSS Resource Unit
>SCO ODT, Arc/Info, Atlas GIS       2142 Agronomy Hall
>                                   Iowa State University

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From: dbr@ocf.berkeley.edu (Daniel Rosler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Best 16-17" 1280x1024 NI monitor?
Date: 25 Dec 1992 22:54:14 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: lightning.berkeley.edu

In article <fictorie.725212763@freyr> H.Fictorie@research.ptt.nl writes:
>The 550 refreshes with 60Hz at 1280x1024, the Nanao 560 is a far better
>monitor, but also more $$$ (appr. the same as the NEC 5FG).

The 5FG sells for between $1250 - $1400 and the Nanao F560i between $1750
and $1900.  They are not similarly priced at all.
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From: bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: *** HELP ME PICK A WINDOWS ACCELERATED CARD, PLEASE! ***
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:16:00 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: a2i network

I'm going to be buying a Windows accelerated card.  I've been considering
the Diamond Stealth VRAM, but I hear it is slower than the Diamond
Speedstar 24x?  Which one is faster in Windows?  How much faster is one in
DOS than the other?

I've also been considering the ATI Graphics Ultra Plus.  

What I'd like is a turbocharged, accelerated card for windows 3.1 that has
24bit color up to at least 800x600 and hicolor (15/16 bit color) in up to
1024x768x256.  I'll settle for less, I just want to know of all the options
and what the prices are.   

I'd also like to know what chipset the suggested cards have onboard; also,
if they indeed come with relatively bug-free windows 3.1 and vesa drivers.

PLEASE, I need your help.  I cannot stand my card's lackluster Windows
performance any longer.  I need acceleration.. NOW!  :)  Email or post
follow-ups, I dont mind.  Your help is need now more than ever!  Help cure
my insanity.. Thanks.

-- 
Bryan Woodworth <bryanw@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: The Death of x86 Arch. ?
Organization: Indiana University
X-Kibo: Gotcha!
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 05:54:17 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.231441.26644@infonode.ingr.com> drudetb@infonode.ingr.com (Ted B. Drude) writes:
>In article <1992Dec17.195557.1989@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
>mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes: 
>
>>Why would someone with one of those processors want to run NT?  I'd
>>much rather run the SGI UNIX/X stuff on an Indigo than run NT.
>
>NT benefits application developers primarily. It makes their
>applications much more portable between architectures, greatly
>increasing their potential market size, and lowering the cost of
>development dramatically. It allows portable workstation applications 
>to be delivered in a cost-effective, shrink-wrapped from.  

If I get you right, users won't need to recompile their
apps when running on different platforms. So I can use the 
same set of disks to install Excel 5 or WinWord 3 on an SGI
machine, an Alpha _or_ a 486 DX4/200 or Pentium machine?

Can't do this with Unix I don't think.... I hate to think of 
having to shrinkwrap source code and makefiles.....




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From: wachtel@emperor.gatech.edu (Steve Wachtel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: VEGA 486F-2VL motherboard from YMC
Keywords: motherboard, chipset
Date: 22 Dec 92 23:16:48 GMT
Organization: CERL-EE, Georgia Institute of Technology


Does anyone have experience with motherboards built
by YMS (Young Micro Systems), a USA made motherboard?

I'm interested in the 486F-2VL (486 motherboard with
2 VESA-local slots).

Also, since it uses a Symphony chipset, I'm interested
if anyone has had compatibility problems with designs
that use this chipset.

Thanks.

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Georgia Institute of Technology          (404) 894-2507
400 Tenth St. NW, CRB 376
Atlanta, GA  30332-0540
From: whitesto@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Local Bus?
Date: 22 Dec 92 20:43:49 GMT
Reply-To: whitesto@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Jr., Robert Whitestone)
Organization: Annapolis Facility, Carderock Division, NSWC

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, fbruno@ysw526 (F. Bruno) writes:
>Hi!
>I have just side-graded to a 486-50 FOREX motherboard w/ local bus. Side
>grading meaning that I used to have a buggy Opti 486-50 MB. Now I am stuck.
>I already have a Diamond Stealth VRAM and I don't know whether I should shell
>out the extra $150. for the local bus video or not. Please help. Will the
>local bus give me better performance than the Stealth? I am happy w/ the
>stealth, but if the LB card would be significantly faster, then it may be
>worth it.
>                        Thanks,
>Please E-mail me: fbruno@rapnet.sanders.lockheed.com


    I'm just curious, why else would you have side-graded to a
    local bus, if not for a local bus video card?
				    
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From: liuyu@acf3.nyu.edu (Bill Clinton)
Subject: Everex EV-221 card - what is it?
Organization: New York University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:04:32 GMT


Hi,
  I have a Everex EV-221 card. I think it is a Hercules compatible card
with a parallel port. There are other connectors on the card. They are
10 pin, 26 pin, and 32 pin connectors. Anyone know what these connectors
are?
Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman)
Subject: Re: Motherboards with OPTI ch
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:21:43 GMT

In article <587.182.uupcb@digund.uucp> copernicus@digund.uucp (Copernicus)  writes:
>To: tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au
>
>TE>I am about to upgrade my 286 to a 386DX40 with OPTI chipset.
>  >I have seen a lot of postings about problems with OPTI chipsets
>  >with soundblaster, OS/2 etc.
>
>TE>OPTI chipsets are well know and widely used. I am not likely to use
>  >OS/2 or Soundbalster (at least in the near future). However, I really
>  >need to use windows and various dos application.
>
>TE>Is OPTI chipsets generally known as reliable and compatible with other
>  >hardware and most software? I'll apprectiate any opinions and experiences
>  >on OPTI chipsets.
>
>If you could please e-mail me a summary
>
>Thanks
>
>Chris Nalley - copernicus@digund.uucp
>---
> . QMPro 1.0 03-1234 . Digital Underground - Linux Support Board - 812-941-9427
>                          

I've been receiving responses from people in the OS/2 newsgroup about OPTi and
OS/2 compatibility.  No one is complaining about any problems, and they have
been running OS/2 for months.  I don't remember if anyone was using Unix or
not, but since I'm currently interested in OS/2, Unix compatibility isn't a
big factor right now.

One person was also using a Soundblaster, and someone had also used ESDI, SCSI,
and IDE drives (300+ MB) without any problems.

Hope this helps.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
Subject: Cheap SCSI drives and controllers -> any good?
Organization: (this space for rent)
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 04:55:21 GMT

There's a place that has advertised in Comp. Shopper for a long
time now, and it seems that their name is HI-TECH.  In their latest ad,
(Jan 93, p. 380) they are selling 16-bit SCSI HARD ONLY (Future Domain)
for $49 and 16 bit HARD and Floppy controllers for $69.

Now aside from the ST01/02, I thought that SCSI controllers were usually
over $100, if not over $200.  Does anyone know what controllers this 
place is selling?

They've got some good prices on their SCSI drives, but the killer for
me was always the cost of the controller.  I assume that they know if 
their 16 bit $49 or $69 controller will work with their advertised drives,
if I were to buy one, but I was wondering if their controllers are worth
their salt (ie I don't care about buffering, I'm not into file-servers or
unix or os-2, and I want a minimum of 800 k/sec transfer speed).
Any comments?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: astrachan@austlcm.sps.mot.com (Paul Astrachan)
Subject: AMI BIOS CMOS setup/password
Keywords: password/setup/encryption
Reply-To: tjohnson@austlcm.sps.mot.com (Terence Johnson)
Organization: Motorola MOS Telecom
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:59:52 GMT

Looking for memory mapping of the CMOS setup and password
encryption method.  Please e-mail, tnx.

tjohnson@austlcm.sps.mot.com

Paul Astrachan
Motorola Telecom 
astrachan@austlcm.sps.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols)
Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 04:40:25 GMT

In article <gting.725143054@sfu.ca> gting@fraser.sfu.ca (Gabriel Sii Kuok Ting) writes:
...
>I thought most manufacturers put down the UNformatted capacity of the drive?
...

IDE drives are spec-ed by their formatted capacity, since they are
formatted by the manufacturer and the actual geometry is hidden from
the user.

Bob Nichols
AT&T Bell Laboratories
rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: calboyd@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Larry Boyd)
Subject: Looking for MotherBoard Source(s)
Keywords: Samsung
Organization: University of Prince Edward Island
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:35:45 GMT


         I have a Sensor Samsung 386sx 16MHz, 105MB HD, single H
  igh-Density 3.5, svga, built-in 2400 baud modem, 4MB RAM.

         I would like to upgrade this system to a 'true' 386 or a
  486. My local dealer says 'no way, ya gotta buy another computer
  from us'. Is that true? Is there anyone else out there with this
  same machine that has successfully upgraded? If so, I'd like to 
  hear from you. Apparently a 'major' stumbling block is that the
  graphics adaptor is inserted horizontally as opposed to the 'standard'
  vertical. 

        E-mail replies welcome.

                          Larry Boyd




Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.intel
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Completing tasks under the desktop metaphor Re: Where the mac really wins
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:46:41 GMT

In article <id.5JYV._AH@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:

>Personally, I find the Mac model where applications have this strange undead
>life after you've quit working on the file associated with them quite
>disturbing. I feel it VERY strongly violates the desktop metaphor, and
>I'm frequently caught out when there's some application lying around in
>the background eating up memory with no visual indication that it exists.

Its not only annoying, it can cause real problems. Novice users (whose 
habits I have been studying for a while, since I come into contact
with huge numbers of them) will tend to sit down at a Mac without re-
starting it or checking to see if anything else is running. Conse-
quently, one of the more common problem you have is not being able to
print, or bring up chooser, or any one of myriad other problems inclu-
ding system crashes due to lack of memory. These apps, while in their
"undead" state, will be taking up their fixed stack of RAM. When you 
kill them the RAM is still fragmented so if you're trying to open a 
big app it won't open. Even I do it sometimes 9-)







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From: cholette@saguenay.iro.umontreal.ca (Martin Cholette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Need help. Hard drive failure.
Date: 26 Dec 92 15:24:14 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal, Canada

In article <92360.211533COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET> Bill Laird <COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET> writes:
>In article <1992Dec25.202029.17250@netcom.com>, shawr@netcom.com (rich shaw)
>says:
>
>>        I need some help on this. I have a conner 3204F IDE drive which
>>refuse to respond to the fdisk command. I can create the partitons under
>>fdisk, but everytime I save and exit the fdisk command, the infomation is
>>lost. So, do I need to low-level format my hard drive (and how) or the
>>hard drive is dead? Thanks in advance.
>
>There is an undocumented trick that you may want to try with fdisk. When
>you involk fdisk, use the /MBR switch: ex. fdisk /MBR
>
>/MBR stands for master boot record. Apparently, when fdisk does it's
>partitioning, it does some sort of signature check in the master boot
>record. If that signature isn't there (because of a virus, or other
>serious problem) fdisk will not work. The /MBR switch tells fdisk to go
>ahead and partition even if the signature check fails.
>
>IMHO, a low level format is probably is not necessary. Let me know how this
>works out.
>
>Bill

***** You Should NOT low level format an IDE drive !!! Depending on the drive,
      two things might happen 1) You might scrap the drive.
                           or 2) The IDE controller will ignore the low level
                                 re-formatting.

Merry XMAQS
Martin Cholette
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: v923137@vms.ucc.okstate.edu
Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
Organization: Oklahoma State University Computer Center
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:34:09 GMT

In article <1992Dec24.103209.21401@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, lew@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Kevin A. Lew) writes:
>>>213,000,000 is not 213 megs (213 megs=213*1024*1024)
> 
> 213,000,000 bytes *IS* 213 Megabytes.  MS-DOS lists the free space
> you have on your hard drive in bytes.  Since MEGA = 10^6,
> 213 Megabytes is 213,000,000 bytes.  In addition, 1 kilobyte is not
> 1,024 bytes.  It is 1,000 bytes.  I just studied this stuff in
> a communication networks course and when I was studying for the CS GRE..
> 
> Hope this clarifies things..

What?  Are you on drugs?  Do you really believe that 1 kilobyte is 1,000 bytes
and not 1,024 bytes?

How much memory does you computer have?  1MB? 4MB? 8MB?  Lets say it has 4MB.
What does your memory count up to when you boot? 4000K?  I don't think so.
Try 4,096 (minus the 384K shadow RAM for some chipsets).

If that doesn't convince you, then lets consider sixteen bit addressing.
You can address 65,535 possible memory locations using a sixteen bit address.
Are you trying to tell me that the old TRS-80 had 65.535K and not 64K?
I don't think so.  Maybe you need to take a class in CPU architecture and
come back with an intelligent argument.

-Jason
From: ad@fermi.wustl.edu (Andrew Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Postscript Problem with IBM Laserprinter E
Date: 22 Dec 1992 07:18:36 GMT
Organization: Washington University Astrophysics
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: fermi.wustl.edu


Well, I just bought myself a used printer, an IBM Laserprinter E with an
extra 2megs and Postscript installed. There were no manuals, however.  No
utility diskettes either. It works fine under DOS except it spits out raw
postscript when I send it a postscript file ( something produced by dvips,
for example). Same thing if I tell Windows its a postscript printer (works
fine under windows if I set it up as a plain laserprinter).  I'll be
ordering manuals etc. soon, I suppose, but if someone could let me know what
I need to do to get postscript working, I'd be a happy camper!

Thanks,
Andrew Davis	ad@cosray.wustl.edu
Washington U. Physics
St. Louis MO

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