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From: mikey@db.erau.edu (Mike P. Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: CMOS meanings
Date: 9 Nov 1992 16:49:13 -0500
Organization: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL USA
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jepace@chimi.engr.ucdavis.edu (Logjam) writes:

>I recently lost my CMOS settings, and I was wondering what the 
>following hard drive settings mean:
>LZone, and WPcom.  WPcom says it is either 0 or 65535 (or some
>number like that.)

LZone is Landing Zone.  It has something to do with where the drive heads go
when they park (somebody correct me if I'm way off base), and WPcom is where
Write Precompensation should begin.  Both of these are track numbers.  Write
Precomp is not used anymore on modern drives, and if your drive manual doesn't
mention it, set it to your number of tracks +1.  Ditto for LZ.  That's my
experience, anyway...

-Mike
mikey@db.erau.edu
Organization: Central Michigan University
Date: Tuesday, 10 Nov 1992 16:35:33 EST
From: Rich Mueller <3CMUD6L@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Chip Swapping, is it possible?

Here's a question, is it possible to remove a i486dx cpu and place it
into a new motherboard.  The board I have now has no 32 bit slots
and I was thinking of getting a new board for my chip.  If it helps
my current board has the expantion slot for the clock doubler chip.
I think the cpu can be removed but i've never checked.
just wondering, thanks in advance.
                                      Rich
Please no e-mail.
From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Conflict between Roland and Adaptec
Date: 9 Nov 92 17:45:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BxGMnH.26K
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

todd@vtucs.cc.vt.edu (Todd Perry) writes:
>I installed a new Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller and drive in my system
>yesterday, only to discover that the Adaptec's default I/O port (330)
>conflicts with my Roland LAPC-1.  I need to keep the Roland at 330, but
>I also need to boot the SCSI drive, and the Adaptec docs say there is no
>way to make the BIOS recognize another I/O port if I change the jumpers on
>the SCSI controller.  Does anyone know of a fix for this, or of a new PROM
>I can order from Adaptec?  I'm trying to get through to their tech support
>but it's been busy all afternoon.
>--
The ROM code for alternate address 334 is available on the Adaptec BBS.
I believe you can also purchase the alternate ROM.
--
	Mike Berger
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
From: dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com (Danny Low)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:39:00 GMT
Subject: Re: IDE And SCSI with a Twist
Organization: HP LOVECRAFT DIVISION
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

>(Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) 
>I am considering mixing a SCSI drive in with my IDE drive sometime in the
>near future.  However, I want to make sure that the 340MB IDE is still the
>drive that boots the system, and ends up as the C: drive.

Typically you can ONLY boot off the IDE drive in a mixed IDE/SCSI
configuration.

			   Danny Low
    "Question Authority and the Authorities will question You"
	   Valley of Hearts Delight, Silicon Valley
	     HP CPCD   dlow@pollux.svale.hp.com
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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: Monitor screen damaged by Magnet
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:35:54 GMT

bmutas@bnr.ca (Bryan Utas) writes:

>My five year old son decided to see what would happen if he placed
>a magnet on my SVGA CTX monitor.  Well, he found out.  The two areas
>where the magnet were placed now have 'shadows' associated with them
>(ie: darker areas).  This is especially noticeable if the background
>is light in color.

>Does anyone know if there is a fix for this sort of problem.  If so,
>what type of equipment would I need?

Other responders have suggested that the built-in degausser in your
display may undo the damage, but it may be that the degausser field
from the built-in feature is too weak to remove the magnetism left behind
by a magnet held directly against the screen.

What you need is a tube degausser.  It's a standard tool which any
should be available to any repair shop which works on either TV sets
or computer monitors; you certainly aren't the first person to have
the problem you described.  Your tech support staff at BNR may have
one you can borrow.

A degausser is essentially just a choke coil plugged into an AC wall
outlet.  Although the ones used for displays are usually somewhat
larger, their design is generally the same as for bulk tape erasers
like you can find at Radio Shack.  (Within some delta, of course.  I
think you'll find that most bulk tape erasers use iron-core coils while
most tube degaussers don't)  Even if you can't borrow one intended
for use with a CRT you may be able to use a bulk eraser for the same
purpose:

  * Hold the coil a full arm's length away from the tube and turn
    it on.

  * Slowly bring the coil close to the tube faceplate, keeping the
    plane of the coil parallel to the face of the tube.  Don't let
    the coil stop in one place; continually move the coil slowly in
    a circular pattern obove the faceplate just as if you were polishing
    your car.

  * While continuing to "polish" the faceplace, lift the coil away until
    it's at arm's length from the tube again and turn it off.

**NEVER** turn the degausser on or off while it's near the tube: the 
sudden construction or collapse of the magnetic field may magnetise 
anything in the vicinity.

Depending on its construction the bulk eraser may or may not be able to
help you.  I've seen ones which could barely affect tape held direcly
against them, and I've seen (and used) erasers which had no problem
completely erasing the old 2" broadcast-quality videotapes.  If there
is any possiblity of getting the use of a tube degausser, it's strongly
recommended over trying to use a tape eraser.

Joe Morris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tyrone@infinity.att.com (51233-Tyrone Shiu(HOC828)HRCP)
Subject: TALON CD-ROM needed.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 22:55:59 GMT
Keywords: CD-ROM TALON

Hi:

I saw an ad from Insight/Hard Drive International that they are sell TALON
CD-ROM for $279 including 3 CDs.  It comes with an interface card and maybe
some drivers for Windows.  Please give any info, good or bad, to help decide
whether I should even look at it.  This is a very cheap drive though.
Please send e-mail direct.  Thank You!

+--------------------------------+                          
| Tyrone Shiu                    |
| Email: tyrone@cbnewsi.att.com  |
+--------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: AWARD BIOS 
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 16:55:45 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.010649.28595@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> jav2d@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jason Adams Vanvalkenburgh) writes:
>Try JDR Microelectronics.  They advertise in the back of a few 
>computer magazines.  They sell hardware, software, and electronic 
>supplies, including microprocessors and and the like.  
>
Admittedly, I missed the original post. But, if you are looking for 
BIOS upgrades you can call Unicore at 800-800-BIOS.

-- 
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From: vincent@garnet.berkeley.edu (Vincent J. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Seiko Monoitors?
Date: 10 Nov 1992 23:20:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

Are these monitors any good? Seiko NI.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: harry@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (Kuo-Chen Chang)
Subject: Help -- RTC Interupt failed within QAPLUS 
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:06:40 GMT

Hi netters!

Could someone tell me what RTC Interrupt is?  I just upgraded my 486/33
to 486DX2-50.  I ran QAPLUS 2.50 to test how the new CPU worked.  And
I got a message saying that:

	RTC Interrupt Failed

Then I ran the same test for 10 times and 2 out of 10 gave me the same
message.  My local dealer told me that's because the old QAPLUS can handle 
fast CPU like DX2-50.  Is it true?

Harry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bmutas@bnr.ca (Bryan Utas)
Subject: Monitor screen damaged by Magnet
Reply-To: bmutas@bnr.ca (Bryan Utas)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 20:26:01 GMT

My five year old son decided to see what would happen if he placed
a magnet on my SVGA CTX monitor.  Well, he found out.  The two areas
where the magnet were placed now have 'shadows' associated with them
(ie: darker areas).  This is especially noticeable if the background
is light in color.

Does anyone know if there is a fix for this sort of problem.  If so,
what type of equipment would I need?

Please post to the net as I don't have email access.  Thanks in advance.

Bryan.
From: st8625@cc.utah.edu (SATID THERDKIATTIKUL)
Subject: Re: Need help on upgrading CPU on Toshiba laptop 
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Keywords: CPU upgrade board for Toshiba T1600 (286 Model) 
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: 12 Nov 1992 18:20 MST  

In article <12NOV199216251445@cc.utah.edu>, st8625@cc.utah.edu (SATID THERDKIATTIKUL) wri

	There should be something wrong with my 3 full page message that final-
ly  the middle portion disappeared. Many students here complained about    this
problem that might be caused by some bugs in the OS (after logging in from SUN
system).

	Let  me  tell  you my problem again. I bought my Toshiba laptop three 
years ago. It is a T1600 model with 12 MHz 80286 CPU.  I want  to upgrade the
CPU to 386SX or higher so I can run OS2 and many memory menagement utilities.
I call  many  companies  about  their upgrade boards but all of them are  not
compatible with this model. Although, some of them work really well with many
286 laptops e.g. some models of Compaq and Toshiba(T3200).

	These products are not compatible with Toshiba T1600;
		-Intel Snap-in boards
		-Kingston SX Now boards
		-AOX Stax boards
		-AST boards
		-Cumulus boards
		    etc.
These boards are really small (e.g. credit card size). All of them can directly
plug in 286 socket(emulate 286 BUS) and can use the existing  RAM  & 287 on the
main board. I will call many more vendors that I 've just found them from the 
lastest PC & electronic magazines including Tech Direct, Sota Tech and Orchid
Tech., etc.

	If someone can help me about the upgrading, have some suggestions, or 
just  want  to  tell me somethings, please let me know (phone, fax, TELNET or 
letter).

	Thanks      

	Satid Ther
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From: CONEGA@CONRAD.APPSTATE.EDU (*Greg Cone           )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Problem with LightCom 96 modem
Date: 11 Nov 1992 20:34:16 GMT
Organization: APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: alf.appstate.edu
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

I bought a LightCom 96 modem eight months ago and have had no problems 
establishing 38400 baud connections.

However, about a week ago, I noticed file transfers are now only 230 cps
instead of the > 1000 cps I was getting before.  It is an internal modem
with a Rockwell chip set.  I even tried it in another computer with the
same results.  

Does anyone have any ideas about this problem?

BTW, when I tried to contact the company, Lightning Communications, Inc.,
of Aliso Viejo, CA, their phone has been disconnected.  :-(

Thanks,
Greg

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: jake@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com (Jake Jacobson)
Subject: CD-Multimedia Starter Kit-Good Idea??????
Keywords: cd-rom
Organization: none
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:20:14 GMT

    Does anyone have experience with the Creative Labs
Multimedia Starter Kit.  It contains:
         Soundblaster PRO
         MPC CD-ROM (proprietary interface)
                 390 mS access
         Microsoft Bookshelf

    It is on sale this week for $398.99, which seems like
a good price to me.  Please, tell me what's wrong with 
this package.  I've found that prices which are too good
to be true usually are.  Thanks.
-jake-
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From: esuus@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr N Burrows)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: My IDE has skrewed up after a LL format HELP!!!
Date: 11 Nov 1992 13:54:56 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: lily.csv.warwick.ac.uk

Recently I had to do a low level format on my 42Meg Conner CP344 drive.
This was due to there being a large number of bad sectors after a high level format.
The format was done after warming up the machine to an appropiate tempreture.
After the format it work fine with no bad sectors.  A few days later I switched on
the machine to find it refusing to boot and reporting and 'Invalid Data Read' by
the bios.  So out came the boot disks (DrDos V5) it started loading then scanned for
the HD at this point the disk light came on, and nothing happend for about 5 yep five
minutes.  Then it carried on loading but the HD was unavailble.  MsDos V3.3 did
the same but only hung for about 3 minutes.
   I have tried the disk on another machine with a different set of cables to
eliminate controller/cable faults.
   Since the drive cannot be accesed from within dos is there anything I can do with
the drive?
   Is is possible to get the drive fixed in the UK, if so where and how much?

Or has anyone got a very cheap IDE HD for sale.


Cheers


Nigel

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From: a139146@cc.tut.fi (Ahokas Jarno)
Subject: ATID cable -> DITA
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 17:16:04 GMT


What'll happen if I accidentally connect my ATID cable the wrong
way around. (i.e. pins 39 and 40 where there should be 1 and 2)

t. Hocca (a139146@cc.tut.fi)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rash@access.digex.com (Wayne Rash)
Subject: Re: Is Gateway a publicly held company? I think I'll short some stock...
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 02:24:31 GMT

chow@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Christopher Chow) writes:

>In article <TIM.92Nov9180806@coors.boxhill.com> tim@boxhill.com (Timothy Jones) writes:
>>I'm totally fed up.  I'm a little new to the PC market (I work mostly with
>>Suns and other UNIX workstations) and am *appalled* by the customer service I
>>have received from Gateway.  I wonder if all the PC mail order houses treat
>>their customers this poorly...  I guess a Sun salesperson who sells machines
>>costing $20K a piece cares a little more about the individual customer.
>>

>[Yet another Gateway horror story deleted]

>Amazing that people on the net still order from Gateway. This summer, 
>there were a whole slew of articles regarding problems with Gateway. True,
>they were written up as having the best reliability, etc, by PC Magazine
>this summer, but I had thought the general net.consensus reached mid-summer
>was that Gateway was growing too fast for their management ability, and that
>published article, being at least a couple of months old at the time
>of publication, was already inaccurate.

>I'd figure that after the fiascos with the floating point math and telepath
>modems, as well as signs of inability to deal with growth (late machine
>deliveries, apparently some machines not burnt-in shipping to customers,
>absurdly long wait times on support) that demand would slacken off.
>BTW, people recently speculated that some Gateways delivered with video
>cards not fully inserted were perhaps due to UPS mishandling. How likely
>is this? I've mailed a number of systems through UPS, and have never 
>had such a problem. Seems to me that this may be more indicative of an
>overburdened assembly line combined with a lack of burn in rather than
>UPS mishandling.

>-- 
>Christopher Chow
>---------------------------   Phone:          518-426-0687
>1 Notre Dame Drive - Rm 317   Internet:       chow@theory.tc.cornell.edu
>Albany, NY 12208-3413         America Online: Chris Chow

Well, I have to admit that I rarely have UPS to blame for loose video
cards.  Normally they do a more thorough job than that.  Normally they
crush to computer to less than half its normal height in at least one
dimension.  Then they leave it in the rain, soak it with solvent, or
something similar.  Today I received a former SCSI card in the mail via
UPS.  It's now a strange collection of little skinny pieces of foil and
fiberglass shards.

Good ol' UPS.  they never saw a computer they couldn't flatten.

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From: mem28103@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (M Mem28103 M's)
Subject: Re: Information of 486 motherboard? 
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 07:40:12 GMT

What happened to your keyboard?  And who can forget the increasingly
popular CPU cooler/fan?

One-Eye
,)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: toweryt@memstvx1.memst.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: PREMIER 1500 COMPUTER INFO WANTED
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:09:08 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Memphis State University

I just bought a demo model of a Premier 1500 computer that the
store manager had thrown away the manuals for.

Does anyone have such a machine and would you be willing to give
me the address and phone number of the company that made it.

It is a 386SX/16

I am most interested in what the memory options are for this machine.

There are several banks of sockets for RAM chips (not SIMMS) and I
would like to know what chips I should use and which banks to fill
up first.

There is also one six or eight DIP switch that I have no clue as to
it's function.  Help would be appreciated.

Either post or E-mail any assistance.

Thanks 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: tim@boxhill.com (Timothy Jones)
Subject: Re: Is Gateway a publicly held company?  I think I'll short some stock...
Organization: Box Hill Systems Corporation, New York, NY
	<GERRY.92Nov10120504@onion.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 14:44:26 GMT

On Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:05:04 GMT, gerry@cmu.edu (Gerry Roston) said:

> G2000 is unquestionably one of the best companies around.  I offer as
> proof their phenomenal growth, this wouldn't have happened if most
> customers were dissatisfied.  What we see are the net are a bunch of
> cry-babies who complain about anything and everything they can.  Sure,
> G2000 isn't perfect, but overall, they are obviously doing better than
> their competition.  If only more satisfied G2000 customers would speak
> up, the net.world would get a more balanced view.  But, when was the
> last time that YOU said something good about anything?

Some people prefer to pay a little more for decent service.  Some people can't
afford to spend hours on the phone and weeks waiting for equipment.  I guess
most of the world isn't like that (as evidenced by your interesting business
analysis), but the small part here around Wall Street sure is.  If Gateway
hopes to keep expanding into new marketplaces like the financial industry,
which it has an opportunity to now thanks to better PC operating systems, it
had better get its house in order, otherwise a competitor who does have good
service will squash it.

Tim
--
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Box Hill Systems Corporation                                voice: 212-989-4455
161 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10013               fax: 212-989-6817
From: chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan)
Subject: Repost: 486SX-25 -> 486DX2-50 problems???
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:46:47 GMT

chans@cs.curtin.edu.au (Sean Chan) writes:

>Gidday all,

>Recently, I pulled out my 486SX-25 and plugged in a 486DX2-50. In
>addition to that, I've added some new software on my system (eg. Turbo
>Pascal 7.0). After a few days, I noticed that I had a lot of
>"cross-linked" files problems. Also, while programming in Pascal,
>occasionally, I get EMM386 telling me about some "exception" error...and
>have no choice but to reboot. 

>What are the possibilities of 486DX2-50 chip causing problems like this?? 
>My configuration is as follows :-

>486DX2-50 CPU
>UMC Chipset Board (capable of 486SX -> 486DX ...all speeds)
>DR-DOS 6.0
>8Mb RAM (combo of 1MbX9 and 1MbX3)
>130 Mb HDD (80Mb DOS, 50Mb Linux)

>Any help will be appreciated...

>Sean 
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From: 998mangla@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: modem trouble - Smartlink
Date: 10 Nov 92 20:05:36 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

Hi

A friend of mine just bought a 2400 BS Smartlink modem. 
(Archteck Telecom Corp)

We tried to call using the software that came with it , Comit,
but the program would not do anything when it was told to dial.
first we thought the program was not working so we used
the terminal option in windows to dial out. but when a number is dialed
the mouse locks up and nothing happens. the only way to get out
is to hit Alt-F4

Then I put my 1200 baud modem in his computer and it worked fine

Is there a problem with the modem or just the DIP settings?

Usman
From: aron@archangel.ced.berkeley.edu (aron bonar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Heat and 486 again
Date: 12 Nov 1992 01:07:22 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: archangel.ced.berkeley.edu

In article <1dm7vqINNp6t@sam.ksu.ksu.edu>, sdoran@sam.ksu.ksu.edu (Steven Marcotte) writes:
|> 
|> 	I bought a 486DX/50 about two months ago.  When I bought it
|> I had a heat sink with fan installed, this is something that isn't 
|> included in all systems, you have to specially request it.  Anyway,
|> after several attempts the fan that is attached to the heat sink is still
|> loud and causes vibration.  The case seems to have adiquate air
|> flow, so would a heat sink be enough to provide enough extra cooling to 
|> the chip?  If not, what other options are avaliable to cool things off?
|> 

Yeah..I just have a heat sink on top of my 486-50 cpu and the system seems fine.
Although...I do run my computer with the case open so air can get in and circulate.