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From: thompson@forsyth.wsnc.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Zeos (and others) general flame
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:21:43 EST
Organization: Forsyth County, Winston-Salem  NC

In article <GERRY.92Aug24171444@onion.cmu.edu>, gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) writes:
> Buy a local bus 486 for < $2000, what a deal!  
> 
> The above is a paraphrase of a recent Zeos add.  Of course, said
> system comes with a 40 MB drive and a monchrome monitor.  Now,
> seriously, what type of idiot would buy such a system?  Zeos, and
> other companies that run similar adds, should stop this crap, and show
> properly configured systems.  The other thing about the Zeos ad that
> bothers me is the hype and huopla associated with theie Option #4
> package, which for most other companies, is the baseline
> configuration.
> 
> Basically, Zeos is over priced, has slimey ads and I will never buy
> from them.
> 
> [Yeah, flame me back Mr Zeos...]
> 
> --
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Some of us in the real world appreciate being able to buy systems configured
minimally for use as network workstations, async comm servers, or just as a
basis to build a UNIX box.  The super VGA and 200MB IDE drive is pretty use-
less if what you're after is a mono display, 64MB RAM, 1GB of SCSI and so
forth.  It's nice to be able to get the bare platform and build what you need
for the application in hand.

Anyway, Zeos, Gateway, Dell and just about every other vendor out there (now
including Big Blue) will configure a system exactly the way the customer
wants it, so what's your problem?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gdragner@geppetto.encore.com (George Dragner)
Subject: (SUN-) RGB-Monitor at VGA Card ?
Summary: followup of request for assistance on monitor use
Keywords: Sun IBM Monitor
Organization: Encore Computer Corp.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 14:06:05 GMT


tko.vtt.fi>

tko.vtt.fi (Michael Hasemann) writes:

>has anybody experience connecting a RGB+combined SYNC-Monitor
>(SUN-Monitor) to a VGA Card ?
Helios computers 2300 Main Street Irvine, CA 92714
(800)421-7915 FAX (714)261-3689 
These folks make a board that works with 66khertz horizontal
frequency tubes like the Sun monitors.  It has provision for
3,4,or 5 coax connection systems and uses the S3 graphics
chip.  It comes in 1280x1024x16 resolution 1024x1024x256 and
a new model will be available soon for 1280x1024x256.  The
company has drivers for windows 3.x and a friend of mine 
got one to put on his 486/33 machine.  I hope this is a help.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows,comp.os.ms-windows-setup
From: moncrg@rs6118.ecs.rpi.edu (Gregory Donald Moncreaff)
Subject: dos/win31 file access, mscdex, audio cd, nec 84
Keywords: nec cdr-84, mscdex v2.2, audio cd
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:22:10 GMT

i have the following problem with my nec 84 cd-rom drive when 
playing an audio cd:

if the machine is rebooted it will halt in the autoexec.bat
when it is trying to load the mscdex until the audio disk is
ejected

using various file commands in windows, including, sometimes,
starting file manager, or using the file open command from 
many various and sundry programs, including winword, will halt
until the audio disk is ejected

if mscdex puts the cd-rom at d:, and someone accidentally does 
a log on to drive d, control does not return until the audio
disk is ejected

it seems that there is no way in which a program can reliably
tell if the cd is data or audio....

any comments or suggestions appreciated,
g
From: mschweder@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu (Mark Schweder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: AMI BIOS Password
Date: 25 Aug 92 10:49:49 -0500
Organization: Agronomy Dept, Univ of Florida

In article <20981@optima.cs.arizona.edu>, jaw@cs.arizona.edu (Jim Wilson) writes:
> In article <1992Aug24.172547.5330@zooid.guild.org> kovarski@zooid.guild.org (Mark Kovarski) writes:
>>I've accidentally setup a password in my AMI BIOS (12/12/91) and now I
>>can't seem to access the  BIOS Configuration Program (BCP) anymore. Is
>>there any way to 'break' into the BCP or to remove the password?
> 
> I don't think you'll have much luck trying to break the password.
> You'd be better off to remove the on board battery ( or simply lift
> one of its leads ).  Then momentarily short the pads on the 
> motherboard where the battery power was supplied.  After removing
> the short, you need to reinstall the battery, or re-solder the lifted
> lead, and reboot.
> 
> Good luck,
> --
 I had a similar problem and solved it by disconnecting the jumper for the 
onboard battery overnight (12 hours or so) then rebooting. The CMOS seems 
to have forgot all previous settings, including password, as a result. It 
was just a matter of reconfiguring the CMOS and reinstalling the battery 
jumper afterwards. The question should be why didn't the CMOS respond 
correctly to the password?
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From: hho@usc.edu (*** N.T.K.C.D. ***)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 3.5 Drive Setup..
Date: 31 Aug 1992 22:41:43 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu


Thank you allll so much for replying my problem about
NO ROM BOOT when I boot up a new system.
The problem is a badly setup 3.5 drive as A:, I replace the 3.5 with 
5.25 and it works perfectly.. Thanks allll.. Oh, the problem with harddisk
is that I replaced the Future Domain with Adaptec controller, so after
I reformat, it boot off the SCSI drive perfectly..

Now, could you please help me setup the 3.5 :_)

It is a Chinon FZ-357 3.5 inch 1.44meg drive.
It has a bunch of switches: DS0, DS1, DS2, DS3, MM, MD, DC, RDY, and TTL/C-MOS
Which ones should I set? :-)

I still want it to be drive A:

Thank you :-)
H.


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From: gavin@ewd.dsto.gov.au (Gavin Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Quantum IDE + another IDE
Date: 28 Aug 92 17:46:15 GMT
Organization: Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury, South Australia

I currently have a 40 Mb Quantum drive in my PC. Iwould like to add another ~120
Mb drive. I know there has been considerable talk about mixing various brands of
IDE drive, but has anybody successfully combined a Quantum with a WD, Conner or
Kalok for example. 
Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks in advance

Gavin
Internet : gavin@ewd.dsto.gov.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: eckartwe@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Martin Eckart-Weissbaecker)
Subject: your experience with CD-ROM 205 Phillips
Keywords: CD-ROM
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:26:39 GMT

Hi,

just post your exps with the CD-ROM 205,

thank you in advance,

Martin
From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Telepath Modem from Gateway
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:24:58 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

|> I am waiting on the Telepath modem and also hope that it and the 
|> monitor stand up over time.

I just got my 2nd Telepath Modem (the first did not work, was returned
for full creditt including shipping changes) re-ordered and got it last
Friday. Works Great. 9600 to work 14,400 to other , 2400 to others,
no noise, on fuss very quite. Great work Gateway. Only complaint it
took too long to get.
From: kim@magneto.physics.auburn.edu (Han-jung Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ATI phone number wanted
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:23:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: ducvax.1992Sep3.135008.3308
Organization: Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Message-I.D.: <1992Sep1.175457.19778@aa.cad.slb.com>Lines: 11

Alibion (snetzel@csd4.csd.uwm.edu) informed me the technical support
of ATI caompany phone number (416-758-0711).
However the operator told me to check up this mumber.
I think that the area code might be changed.

Does anybody know the phone number of ATI?
My vgawonder card need to be fixed. (got 2 year warranty).
Would you?, please.

Thank you.
 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: vihuri@cc.tut.fi (Tapio Vihuri)
Subject: Help about WD HD-controller
Keywords: wd1003
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 08:01:57 GMT


I would like to have information about WD1003S/RAH (ST-506/RLL) HD-controller's
jumpers ( I mean this W1 trough W7 or W8 which you can shortcut. What is the
correct word for it?). But what I really want to know is the meanin of each 
swithes eg. the jumpers setting. This happends when you bought old stuff,
manuals are all gone.
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From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: PS/2 CMOS (?) configuration
Date: 30 Aug 92 13:27:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: abcd.Jim_Johnson.07mn
Distribution: world
Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch

The reason you are likely having problems is as you guessed - the CMOS must
be changed.  On the PS/2 machines a back-up of the CMOS is on diskette -
along with the necessary software to change the CMOS.  There may be 3rd
party utilities, but perhaps the easiest thing to do is get another copy of
the system configuration disk from an IBM dealer.

-- Via DLG Pro v0.995

Jim Johnson-
*** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***
From: pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai)
Subject: Re: Most Crisp Monitor?
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 19:42:11 GMT

In article <1992Sep2.140708.11177@col.hp.com> bae@hplsdrn.col.hp.com (Bruce Erickson) writes:
>In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware (subj: Most Crisp Monitor?), singer@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:
>> Monitor Mavens: What is the MOST CRISP color monitor you have ever experienced?-- 
>The best monitor I've ever used was an HP 98789A -- a 17" Sony CRT (I presume

Sony is pretty nice but a lot of them seem to get past their QC
with a defective horizontal line of pixels.

-- 
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A right delayed is a right denied.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jamesh@netcom.com (James Hightower)
Subject: Re: Help! AMI bios won't recongize my RLL drive!
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 92 05:02:03 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

destill@mtu.edu (DAVID E. STILL) writes:

>	I'm having a little trouble with my computer.  The AMI bios won't
>recognize my RLL drive.  Both the drive and the controller work (at least
>in an XT), ...

If it works in an XT, then there is a BIOS extension chip on the controller
itself. This BIOS extension takes over the write-to-disk bios calls from
your system BIOs, so you don't have to tell your system BIOS that you have
a disk at all. Try setting your CMOS to "No hard disk installed." It should
boot just fine. Mine does.
	Good Luck,	JJH

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From: sxjcb@orca.alaska.edu (Jay C. Beavers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 386dx 486sx 486dx - what's the difference?
Date: 1 Sep 92 00:53:35 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network

In article <1992Aug31.234312.5571@wuecl.wustl.edu>, cet1@cec2.wustl.edu
(Chuck Turco) wrote:
> 
> FAQ:  What's the difference (in performace and math-coprocessor and 16
> vs. 32 bit) between a 386DX, a 486SX, and 486DX?
> 
> Thanks for any response,
> Chuck
> ---
> Chuck Turco
> Washington University in St. Louis, School of Engineering
> cet1@cec1.wustl.edu

                                        386SX  386DX  486SX  486DX  

Fewer Clock Cycles Per Instruction?      no     no     yes    yes
Internal 8k Cache?                       no     no     yes    yes
Internal Math Co-Processor?              no     no     no     yes
32 Bit bus?                              no     yes    yes    yes
External 64k-256k Cache?                maybe  maybe  maybe  maybe

Fewer Clock Cycles per instruction    ~60% Speed Increase in Normal
Operation
Internal 8k Cache                     ~15% Speed Increase in Normal
Operation
Internal Math Co-Processor            ~10x Speed Increase in Floating Point
32 Bit Bus                            ~15% Speed Increase in 32 bit OSes
External Cache                        ~5%-35% Speed Increase depending on
DRAM
                                           refresh, whether there is an
internal
                                           cache, how well it was
engineered

These figures are approximations made from lots of benchmarking and lots of
magazine reading over a few years from a person who owns a 386DX/25 and a
486DX/25.  They should not be construed as 'burnt in stone' fact, but as
good estimations (IMHO).

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From: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: A20 handler
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:11:36 GMT
Reply-To: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
Organization: Chorus systemes, Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France

In article <9208191350.AA07094@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, JULIUS@BTVLABVM.VNET.IBM.COM ("Julius C. Chang") writes:
%% 
%%     This is from my files and is an excerpt from a README file
%% written by Bob Smith of Qualitas.  Note that the excerpt explains
%% the origin of the A20 Gate, but not why there are different A20
%% handlers for HIMEM.SYS.  Basically, the A20 Gate is implementation
%% dependent and controlling the A20 line can (and usually does) vary
%% from manufacturer to manufacturer.
%% 
%% Julius

That is a really brilliant article.

It however doesn't address the question of A20 gate emulation
using the virtual memory facilities of a 386. The memory wrap
can probably be imitated by mapping the same memory twice: once
in the first 64 Kb, and once just behind the 1Mb limit.

If this mapping is done on a per-task basis - yes, 386's have
an easy memory scheduling - the supervisor task(s) of an EMM386
memory manager could have Gate A20 enabled, whereas VM86 tasks
could see it as disabled.

Am I re-inventing the wheel? Is this really done so in for
example OS/2? I believe HIMEM.SYS doesn't put the machine into
protected mode, so the memory scheduling cannot be used, but`
this could change once EMM386 has beem loaded.

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From: push@media.mit.edu (Pushpinder Singh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: What is local bus?
Date: 3 Sep 92 18:10:41 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory


I've been looking at ads for 486's and I've been seeing many machines with
something called 'local bus'.  It seems to be some sort of 32 bit slot for
video cards and hard disk controllers.  Is this a standard connector?  Will
a card that plugs into this slot on one local bus machine work on another?
Also, should I buy one of these machines now or wait until later?  Is the
speed improvement worth the extra $$?

-Pushpinder
From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DMA overflow?  BOCA 14.4k modem at fault?
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:28:03 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <9208290325.AA28138@sonne.cso.uiuc.edu>, fortony@sonne.cso.uiuc.edu (F. S. Ortony) writes:
|> 
|> Greets!
|> 
|> I just installed a fine BOCA 14.4K internal modem today,
|> after much hassling with the interrupts and com ports.
|> I finally managed to get no conflicts.  Heck, after a while,
|> I was even able to connect to other hosts.
|> 
|> However, something strange (and unfortunately repeatable)
|> popped up after I used the modem for a while.  When I tried
|> to heavily access the floppy drive, I got 'DMA overflow'
|> and immediate program termination (the program was 'rawrite.exe',
|> a program which writes an image directly on the disk).
|> Rebooting, both hard and soft, didn't help one bit; I get a
|> few tracks of the floppy rawritten, and then bam, DMA overflow.
|> If I try again, the DMA overflow message is immediate.
|> 
|> So my question is, what is 'DMA overflow', am I in trouble,
|> and does it have anything to do with my modem?  I am very loath
|> to try to disconnect the modem, as it's buried extremely firmly
|> in my computer's innards right now.  I would normally just be
|> looking ashen at such scary error messages, but the idea that this
|> modem could have somehow done something bad to my pc makes my
|> skin crawl.
|> 

No the problem is that the Floppy controller can not keep up with
the modem. either input/output from the hard disk or a RAM disk.
Most floppy controllers are too slow for that usage unless there is
some buffering.
From: smintz@sedona.intel.com (Stephen Mintz exp 11/92~)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Quantum IDE + another IDE
Date: 28 Aug 92 15:33:38 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation
Originator: smintz@alamo


In article <1992Aug28.114616.164428@dstos3.dsto.gov.au>, gavin@ewd.dsto.gov.au (Gavin Clark) writes:
> I currently have a 40 Mb Quantum drive in my PC. Iwould like to add another ~120
> Mb drive. I know there has been considerable talk about mixing various brands of
> IDE drive, but has anybody successfully combined a Quantum with a WD, Conner or
> Kalok for example. 
> Any suggestions would be welcome.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Gavin
> Internet : gavin@ewd.dsto.gov.au
I have and they worked great, I used a maxtor, and a conner, with no
problems...Plus is a dream in tech support, and the quantum is great at
cohabitating with other manufacturers...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cee1@ra.msstate.edu (Charles Evans)
Subject: NEED 386 in REAL mode not V86 how???
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 06:41:12 GMT


Well, I have been getting this message when trying to run things like:
DJGPP (32 bit C/C++ compiler), various Raytracing programs, etc:

CPU must be in REAL mode (not V86 mode) to run this program.

I am running himem+stacker+qemm6.02+nnansi.sys+hyperdisk

is it qemm's fault.. do I need to remove qemm and try again.

Thanks

chuck

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: vince@megadata.mega.oz.au (Vince Sandrone)
Subject: Re: AMI BIOS Password - Answer!
Originator: vince@sarah
Organization: Megadata P/L, North Ryde, Sydney, Aust.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 08:30:15 GMT

> IMHO it is not worth protecting the CMOS setup, it just causes more
> problems than it is worth....
> 
> 
> [dav]    aka
> David Emrich
> gude@uniwa.uwa.edu.au

IMHO it IS worth it stops people who do not know what they are doing 
changing the CMOS
I aggree for 'Power users' forget it!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: hartzman@kilroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Les Hartzman)
Subject: 9600 baud modem:  Recommendations?
Followup-To: hartzman@kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:54:36 GMT

I'm looking for recommendations on 9600 baud modems.  FAX capability isn't
essential, but I won't discard it either.

Thanks in advance.  Email or post responses.

Les.


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