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From: keithl@klic.rain.com (Keith Lofstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: DUST!  was: Monitor Damage PERMANENT?
Date: 1 Jan 93 01:28:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: klic.1993Jan1.012837.20140
Organization: Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits

In article <1992Dec31.123735.9812@ac.dal.ca> whare@ac.dal.ca writes:
>
>I have a Darius SVGA monitor hooked up to a 1MB OAK SVGA Card.
>I have been noticing sparatic filckers and yellowing of whites.
>Is this apparent disturbance permanent damage? ie will putting
>another card in instead solve the problem?

"Yellowing" probably means you are losing intensity on the blue channel,
either at the CRT or in the circuit.  A lot of things can cause this -
a likely one is DUST!  Dust can be conductive and is drawn to high voltage
circuits.  It can collect on circuit boards and change circuit levels.
It can ruin the effectiveness of heat sinks, causing components to get hot.
Eventually it can cause a monitor to catch fire.  A burnt out monitor is
bad, but not as bad as a burnt out house!

The sporadic flickers could be the dust arcing over.  Think of it as your
final warning.

So clean out the dust.  You will find it embarassingly thick in there.
Your mother would have a fit.

UNPLUG the monitor, let it discharge for an hour or so, open it up,
and clean it out!  Q-Tips and a hose vacuum cleaner are useful;  a
compressed air jet would probably work best.    Remember, there may
be LETHAL voltages floating around inside, so take off all metal
jewelry, wear rubber soled shoes and use only one hand, preferably not
touching anything else.  You may get killed, so please don't print
out any copies of this message where a lawyer might see it ... :-)

If there is still yellowing, you may want to find a circuit weenie to
locate the blue level potentiometer on the video amplifier board inside
the monitor, and have him/her adjust the blue level for you.  There are
a lot of "wrong" potentiometers in there, so don't adjust any unless you
know what you are doing.  Circuit weenies are plentiful (and expendable? :-) ),
and would be glad to do your hardware dirty work if you show them how
to set up  smail  or something.

Good Luck!
-- 
Keith Lofstrom         keithl@klic.rain.com       Voice (503)-520-1993
KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon"
Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Power ICs
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: ET4000/32 is this chip any good?
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:03:15 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.061305.20012@wam.umd.edu> mts@wam.umd.edu writes:
>In article <1992Dec11.071124.21189@wam.umd.edu> mts@wam.umd.edu () writes:
>>    I was just reading the Dec issue of PC World, and it had listings of the
>>best monitors, video cards, printers, etc.  Anyway, there were two manufacturers: Pixel Engineering, and Chem that offered cards with 4Megs Dram and an ET4000/
>>32 chip.  The price for both of these was $395 list, so I assume that they may
>>be the same card.  They both boast 24 Bit color in resolutions up to 800x600 andone of them claims 65,000 colors at 1280x1024 while the other supports 256 colors at that resolution.  This is at 70Hz also, thought most monitors support 60 atthat resolution.  Anyway, my question is, is this a good deal?  With the ATI
>>Ultra Plus going for ~$300 with 2Megs, these cards sound too good to be true.
>>They both provide drivers for at least Windows I don't know about OS/2.  Is the
>>ET4000 much of an accelerator or would it be better to get the Ultra Plus with
>>less colors, but greater speed?
>>
>>	Also, they listed the TVM Media Scan 5A+LR as a best buy along with 
>>the Mag MX15.   They said that the display on the TVM was the best by far,
>>beating the Mag and NEC monitors.  Has anyone heard of this monitor?
>>
>>
>>Dave.
>>.
>>
>    Well, I guess I'll reply to my own message since no one else seems to have.
>I contacted both manufactures of the graphics cards.  Pixel Engineering does
>not sell to the end user, and I did not think to ask for a vendor name until I
>was off the phone.  I don't know if they sell the cards themselves to vendors to sell or if they are sold only in systems.  The other manufacturer, Chem, does
>sell to the end user, but unfortunately, the supplier of one of their chips is
>unable to provide, so it will be another 2 months until they will begin mass
>production.  They did take my name, and said that they would be sure to call
>when production begins.  The man did seem sincere about this.  Anyway, it seems
>that the cards are to good to be true.  At least for now.
>
>
>Dave.
>.

Hi, 
The January issue of Byte Magazine has an interesting article on the performance
aspects of about a dozen cards. Also, will like to point out that S3 928 based cards will be coming out in less than 2 months. So far the 928 is claimed
by S3 to be 2 to 3 times faster than their 924 or 801. The 928 will support
at 1280x1024 64k colors as well as 4MB of ram.



:-)
Amancio
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From: russest@ampex.com (Steve Russell)
Subject: Re: Can someone please send me a list of the hard drive types 1-15 for bios
Organization: Ampex Corporation, Redwood City CA
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:07:48 GMT

In article <1hl98oINNdcm@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ah157@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rob Henry) writes:
>
>
>
>Can you please send me the bios types of hard drives,there are 1_15 listed in
>my setup file.
>I have a 42 meg seagate st-251
>and a fuji 20 meg.
>Please,any help is appreciated.
>LEAVE MAIL

That kinda, sorta depends on the bios vendor and which drive types were put
in each slot....

-steve
From: dla@se05.wg2.waii.com (Doug Acker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Rodime Drive R03259a
Date: 3 Jan 93 03:06:06 GMT
Organization: western geophysical exploration products
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I  just  inherited a Rodime Drive -- R02259A ... supposely its a 210MB
IDE drive ...

What are the settings to use for the BIOS? (Cyl, sector etc...)
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From: wa95003@oxford.ac.uk (Martin J Bligh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Western Digital - UK support ??
Date: 29 Dec 92 16:43:00 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Service, 13 Banbury Rd, Oxford, UK
Originator: wa95003@black

Can anyone give me the support number for Western Digital in the UK?
(if there is one).

Fletch
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From: jig1@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Julian Gorfajn)
Subject: Re: Mac emulator board.
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 22 Dec 92 04:52:12 GMT

mece1us@rosie.uh.edu writes:

>I heard that there is a Mac emulator borad for PC which requires a Mac Plus ROM.
>Does anybody know the name of that board? Have anybody used it? Where can I 
>find article about it?
>Thank You.

I too heard of such a board but I also heard that it costs more than having a
mac running right next to your pc!

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From: mhemy+@cs.cmu.edu (Michael Hemy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: HELP!...Puzzle #2
Date: 23 Dec 92 21:59:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BzqFr3.CtD.1
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


I have diskettes which contain backups of files made on a 286
computer. I was trying, unsuccessfully, to restore them to my 486.

Everything looks fine but when you "start restore" nothing happens and
I have to abort it. The other manifestation is that the DMA test hangs
my 486. When I insert a blank diskette and run a DMA test (FASTBACK
Installation Option), nothing happens and this time the only cure is
CTRL+ALT+DEL...

BTW, I have seen the exact same manifestation on a 386-40 computer. 

All ideas/comments/suggestions will be appreciated.

--Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: klomp@nlsce1.seri.philips.nl (Ernst Klomp)
Subject: CANNOT FIND DRIVE D:
Organization: SERI-CEN Network Services, Philips C&P, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 06:34:59 GMT

I recently installed a second harddisk. But lately I get the next problem:
"Cannot find drive d:". The only thing to do is reset (and data is lost). 
The second harddisk is a SEAGATE ST3144 (130 M) and installed as a slave (IDE). Both disks are known in the BIOS (AMI) as user types. If I recall corectly,
there have been similar problems put on the net, but I don't have the solutions
for this problems. Can somebody help me with this NUISANCE.

Thanks for the response.





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							Philips Semiconductors
klomp@tokyo.sce.philips.nl

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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:23:45 GMT

In <1992Dec30.000820.3526@athena.mit.edu> jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) writes:

>In article <sheldon.725671411@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu>
>	sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:

>> But since these are targeted for commercial usage, they're most likely
>>only testing 1 in every 100 or so, as Mike said, a few out of each batch.

>I thought yields for recent microprocessors were well under 100% (and
>probably under 50%).  If this is the case, every chip must be tested.

I think 30% (or less) is a more realistic yield number.

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From: satam@saathi.ncst.ernet.in (Kirtikumar G. Satam)
Subject: VGA resolution help with Windows 3.1
Keywords:  VGA, TVGA, Windows 3.1
Organization: National Centre for Software Technology, Bombay, India.
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 09:08:20 GMT

Hi! I am not a frequent reader of this newsgroup. So please respond by
personal e-mails. Also, I am not an hardware expert, so please be
verbose when you reply.

I have a 386/33 ISA machines (assembled) with a monocrome VGA monitor,
but with TRIDENT TVGA 512K VGA card.

I run windows 3.1 in standard VGA resolution mode (640x400). Since I
have this TVGA card, I was wondering if I can get 800x600 resolution
with 16 colors (they will map to gray as before). So, I downloaded some
public domain TVGA windows drivers and tried setting to 800x600. The
screen got streched vertically and uppper and lower portions of the
screens went out of bounds. Also, I noticed that the horizontal line
granularity increased. It happend same with Windows 3.1 SVGA driver.

My friend told me that since my monitor was not a (multisync??) monitor,
the problem is coming. Now, is this the case? What multisync monitors
have that VGA monitors don't?

Another friend told me that there are special drivers available to get
SVGA resolution (800x600) using the same scan rate(??) as VGA for TVGA
cards? Is that so? Where I could get such driver? 

Can someone please take pain to explain this whole situation? Or is
there any article in popular magazine (Byte/PCMag etc.) which explains
such things?

Thanks. Again, personal e-mails only. The newsfeed here is very bad.

	- satam.
	Kirtikumar G. Satam

	satam@saathi.ncst.ernet.in
	satam@shakti.ncst.ernet.in
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From: johnwu@netcom.com (John M. Wu)
Subject: Maxtor 213 meg drive - Is it rubbish?
Keywords: maxtor 
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:27:32 GMT

I bought a Maxtor 213 meg IDE drive a couple of months ago and had 0 problems
with them.  My friend, who works in some sleazy peecee clone store says
they are trash since he claims that most of the returns involve the 213
meg Maxtors.  I suspect that what he is saying is rubbish but I want to
make sure.  So to fellow Maxtor (213 meg or not) drive owners...

What do you think of your drive?  Is it menure or is it the best thing since
the toaster?  If you have a non-Maxtor (esp. Conner or Quantum), rate it
alongside the Maxtor.  Just a short description and a rating of the drive
is good enough.  Please respond by email to this request.  I will post
my summary with compiled scores in a few days.

Here is the rating system you should use...

-10 to +10 rating with...

-10 = multiple hard drive crashes, dead drive
+ 0 = It's slow, it's expensive, crashed once, but it works
+10 = It's the best drive for the money!  

Example:

I have a Seagate 40 meg  MFM drive circa 1988.  It's loud, it's slow (39 ms), it
loses files every couple of months.  But no hard drive crash or unexpected 
death.   Rating: +2 (2 points from 0 for not crashing or dying)

The Maxtor is quick, reliable, and cheap ($450 in September).  I still have
megs available and money in my wallet.  No crashing or losing files.
Rating: +8  If I bought it at today's prices, I would give a +9. 

I await your reply.    

 
-- 
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From: akcs.damir@vpnet.chi.il.us (Damir Matanic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Electronic test equipment for sale
Date: 23 Dec 92 20:55:02 CST

               'ValueTronics'

  We at ValueTronics sell all types of reconditioned electronic test

equipment which is manufactured by such leading companies as "Hewitt

Packard", "Tecktronics" and "John Fluke".  We also provide substantial

discounts ranging anywhere between 30% to 70% off the current list price,

along with warranites ranging between 3 to 12 months.

Call us at:1-800-552-8258, and tell them Damir sent you

my e-mail:damir@infopls.chi.il.us

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From: soubyran@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Soubyran Richard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Intel chips...
Date: 31 Dec 92 14:50:42 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal

Hello pcers!

I have a very simple question: What's the difference between the
a 386 DX chip and a 386 DXL chip? (Apart the fact one is made from
Intel and the other one by another maker)

I thank you very much in advance and I wish you a great new one!

Richard Soubyran
soubyran@alize.ere.umontreal.ca
From: lnosek@amiganet.chi.il.us (Luke Nosek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: hooking a roland midi and a soundblaster together...
Date: 28 Dec 92 14:35:29 CST
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

        my friend has both a roland midi and a soundblaster and he'd like to
combine the output of both devices... trouble is when he uses a simple y
adapter to do this, as soon as he hooks in the sb, the roland cannot be heard.

        is there simple way of doing this barring gettting two amps or a mixer?
                                                        Luke Nosek
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: schao@monet.uwaterloo.ca (Stewart Chao)
Subject: MFM controller settings wanted
Organization: University of Waterloo
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:22:31 GMT

Can anyone tell me what the jumper settings are for the 
Western Digital MFM hard drive controller card
(WD1003V) are for?  There are two banks of jumpers,
one with 8 pins (four rows of two), and one with
6 pins (three rows of two).

Thanks in advance,

Stewart Chao
From: 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Gateway CD-ROM drive offer
Date: 3 Jan 93 02:48:15 GMT
Distribution: comp

I'm about to order a CD-ROM drive and, as a Gateway 2000 system
owner, can get the Sony MPC-compliant drive they offer. Anyone
out there have any thoughts on this CD-ROM drive? Thanks in
advance.

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6500boo@ucsbuxa.bitnet    |       taken seriously"
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From: Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: noisy fan...
Date: 22 Dec 92 12:49:54 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK


        When I open a PC, I either pop out the mains cable at the back
to prevent a mains shock; or leave it in but switch the power off at the
mains socket. This way (in the UK, anyway) the appliance is still grounded,
so any static I add to the system is drained away without damaging the
chips.

        I don't know about massive shocks from capacitors in the PC. Sounds
like BS to me, but I wouldn't stake my life on it.

        My fan at home developed a nasty noise recently, so I unplugged the
mains cable at the back, unscrewed the power supply, and squirted a drop
of WD40 onto the fan bearings. The noise was gone when I put it back 
together, but disassembling and reassembling it may have changed the balance
enough to stop the vibration on its own. It's been going OK for a few weeks 
now, so I'm happy 9-)

        Mind, I take no responsibility for anyone else who causes massive
damage to themselves / their PC doing these things.

Brian "The little tinker" Milner
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From: lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade)
Subject: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:31:34 GMT

Well, am I he last person on earth to find this out?  My Maxtor 7213a
(which all of the adds list it as 213 meg drive) is only 202 megs!
213,000,000 is not 213 megs (213 megs=213*1024*1024)
Thank you, I feel better now.
patrick

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Organization: University of Central Florida--Computer Services
Date: Friday, 25 Dec 1992 21:15:33 EST
From: Bill Laird <COP80196@UCF1VM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Need help. Hard drive failure.

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
From: micky@flytrap.Eng.Sun.COM (Mayank Choudhary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Recommendation for a graphics card
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:20:39 GMT
Reply-To: micky@Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: SunSoft, Sun Microsystems Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: flytrap

I am in the process of buying a 486SX based machine. Looking for 
graphics accelerators has me a little confused. I haven't been able 
to get a complete answer to a few of my questions. 

I would like to have 16/256 colors @ 1024x768 resolution. The cards i 
have looked at are Win 7 VGA, Diamond Speedstar 24x and the Orchid 1280.
All are advertised as being "windows accelerators". My questions are:

	What exactly is "windows acceleration"? Or put differently, 
	 what part of windows environment do they accelerate.
	Do these cards contain a seperate processor? If yes, how are
	 they different from generic graphics co-processor card.
	Will other apps see an improved performance too? I am not 
	 thinking of fancy graphics apps, but simple things like
	 graph drawings in Quicken or the paint program that comes w/ 
	 Windows, etc.
	 
Any comments/opinions/facts are welcome. E-mail me and i will gladly 
summarize to the net if there is enough interest.

thanks
micky
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