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From: imj1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imad M Jureidini)
Subject: ATI Ultra Pro drivers
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:16:20 GMT

Hi!  I called up ATI this morning about the new drivers they are making.  They told me they had beta drivers available from their BBS or Compuserve.  Since I don't have access to any of these, could someone please download them, and then possibly upload them to an ftp site like wuarchive?
They told me the name of the file was: bld14.zip
According to what they just told me, the new drivers are faster than the old ones without using memory aperture!

Thanks!

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols)
Subject: Re: Phoenix BIOS - How do you get to CMOS setup?
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:11:53 GMT

In article <1992Nov8.184911.1082@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
...
>It's ctrl-alt.escape on some others.
>On still others, it's ... boot the installation diskette and type "setup".
>Note that the presence of a ROM setup program is an =OPTION= with Phoenix.
...

In my BIOS (Phoenix, 386) the ROM setup program is present, but there's
no way to get to it during boot.  After booting, I can use DEBUG to
run the ROM setup.  Of course, once the machine is up, it's easier just
to type "setup" (the two programs are identical).

Bob Nichols
AT&T Bell Laboratories
rnichols@ihlpm.ih.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wblee@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Wen-Po Bobby Lee)
Subject: Laser Printer Problem
Keywords: form feed, The Printer Works
Reply-To: wblee@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Wen-Po Bobby Lee)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:57:43 GMT

Hi everyone,

I have a curious problem.  Someone I know has a laser printer from 
The Printer Works, model LX-29000.  If any of you have seen this printer
before, you may have noticed that there are no buttons, just some LEDs and
a power switch.  The owner of this printer would like to toggle the print
capture from his program, Procomm v2.4.3 (DOS).  However, since an EOF is
never sent, and there is no OFF LINE and FORM FEED button, he is unable to
print what shows up on his screen.  Does anyone know any solutions to this
problem?  Can a signal be sent manually?

Please reply by email to this address.  Thanks.

--Bobby
wblee@euler.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cpw8034@rigel.tamu.edu (Alan Wen (409) 693-2924)
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth vs. Speedstar 24X
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 15:18:00 GMT

>I am happy with my 24x.  VGA modes (no drivers) are about 2x as fast as they
>used to be, and I reinstalled Windows just to see the drivers run.  Plus, it
>was cheaper by a non-trivial margin.  If you run a lot of standard VGA apps
>(games, programs with no Stealth drivers) then get a Speedstar.  I think that
>it is just a little better rounded as an SVGA card.  If you work in Windows
>a lot, give the Stealth a look.  It certainly is faster there.

I ran WinBench 2.5 on both cards in my machine and the 24x was a clear winner
with over 12mil winmarks while the stealth on got over 7mil...  Not only that,
scrolling through documents in word and pagemaker was noticebly faster with
the 24x over the stealth.  Even in apps that require the cutting and pasting
(eg imaging or "paint" prgs) the 24x seemed faster.

alan
From: jav2d@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jason Adams Vanvalkenburgh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Monitor screen damaged by Magnet
Date: 10 Nov 92 03:43:31 GMT
Organization: University of Virginia

There was a gentleman a few weeks ago that had a problem
like yours.  Someone told him to use a bulk eraser (like
from Radio Shack).  Apparently that worked in de-magnetizing
the monitor.

If your site allows it look back some postings...

--
					Jason A. vanValkenburgh
					University of Virginia '95
					jav2d@virginia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.benchmarks,comp.sys.intel
From: smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Azrak)
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra PRO 24-bit?
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:14:32 GMT

David Eugene Dwiggins <dd2x@ANDREW.CMU.EDU> writes:

>Nope, you won't be able to write a nifty program to get the card into
>unusual modes, because ATI is not going to tell you how.

>I was going to get an Ultra+, and I called ATI, and they said that if
>I wrote them a note on company letterhead stating the reason I wanted to
>know how to program their card they would consider selling me the
>programming information.

>I thought about telling them if they should send me a letter on company
>letterhead why I should buy a product that they won't tell me how to use.
>But I refrained, and cancelled my order.

>DON'T BUY ATI PRODUCTS IF YOU WANT TO KNOW PROGRAMMING INFORMATION.

>Gene

Huh????

You mean the manual you get with the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro doesn't
tell you how to switch into 640x480x16.7M mode???

My manual from the ATI VGAWonder 256k (yes, old) told me what HEX
value to use to switch into any mode the card supported, and even
told me how the bit planes were organized.

Do you have a manual in front of you?
Would you please tell me what it DOES have? I assume it tells you
the usual stuff about installation and specs, but nothing about
what resolutions/modes/colors it supports?

Boy, I cannot wait to go home and read the manual. Must be 4 pages long.

- Brian  (smithbm@craft.camp.clarkson.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: rrauenza@zeus.calpoly.edu (Who, Me??)
Subject: Trident 8800/8900/9000 (What is what?)
Summary: I want the most current 1mb card...
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:22:17 GMT



I have a 512k Trident (Quadtel) 9000 svga card that supports up to
600x800x256 (and 1024x768x16).  I would like to upgrade to a 1 meg
card.  The one I have has a 512k limit...

I have done a little shopping and it appears that the 8900 is the
newest model that supports 1 meg (1024x768x256).  The one place
I have actually called was actually selling the *8800* and said they
wouldn't have 8900's until next week (which I thought was odd...
hasn't the 8900 been out for a while?).

Anyway, does anyone know of a 1meg Trident 9000 card?  Perhaps
the 9000 is a special 512k model?  I have looked at the chip
on the card and it does have the 9000 written upon it.

Or....

Should I just skip trident and go with ATI or some other well
supported card?  I have noticed that Trident's windows 3.1
driver is a little buggy (and it's supposed to be the 'final'
release - I got it from wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/msdos/windows3).


Any help will be greatly appreciated!  

	Thanks!
		Rich

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: sppp@hippo.ru.ac.za (Prof P Piacenza)
Subject: LL FORMAT of an IDE Drive
Keywords: IDE, low-level format
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 11:07:26 GMT


In my previous post I inquired on the availability of software to 
low-level format an IDE drive.  Thanks to all who replied with
helpful suggestions.  

It appears that I should have indicated the type of drive in question:
it's a SEAGATE ST3144A.

If anyone has the required software to do the job I would appreciate
a copy.  Thank you in advance.

E-mail to:  chpp@unitrix.utr.ac.za (preferred) or sppp@hippo.ru.ac.za

-- 
	 L.Piacenza - Chemistry Department - University of Transkei
	 Internet: sppp@hippo.ru.ac.za  Tel. 27-471-3022384
	 Internet: chpp@unitrix.utr.ac.za
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
Subject: Re: EMF interfering with modem communications--Any remedies?
Summary: Problem solved!!
Keywords: modem, RFI
Organization: University of Chicago, SSPPCC
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 03:41:20 GMT

I am happy to report that my RFI nightmare is over.

First, I installed a ferrite bead at the modem input.

Second, I didn't take no from the phone company for an answer.  I called
them again, and they were quite sympathetic this time.  They tested the
line on their end and said it was "unbalanced" (whatever that means).
They had a serviceperson out here right away who fixed the line and
applied a line filter to boot.

Third, we had arranged that our old phone line remain active and that
both lines share the same (the old) phone number--so that if the phone
rang at one place, it would ring at the other.  Speculation has it
that this arrangement was creating one giant (two-mile long) antenna.
I had them disconnect the old line.  

The happy result:  The problem has vanished!

I'm a bit surprised, because the radio transmitter is right across the
street!

All in all, I'm really pretty lucky.  I've come to know just how
intractable this sort of problem can be.  I would have been devastated
if it had not been solved.

Thanks goes to all the people who e-mailed their advice.

Bob Osterlund
berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
SSPPCC--University of Chicago
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kirchner@uklira.informatik.uni-kl.de (Reinhard Kirchner)
Subject: Video7 VRAM in 486 problem
Organization: University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:50:30 GMT

Hello,

I just got a new mainboard with a 486 50DX2 on it, and I thought to
take over my Video7 VRAM graphik board. 

BUT I had to find out that the board is in about 80% of the cases
recognized as monochrome, so I have to press reset many times until
I get color. Since there are also other problems with the mainboard
I first accused this, but I now tried a standard VGA ( Video7 VEGA VGA )
as well as a VRAM II ergo, and both are regularly recognized as color.

In April a guy from Australia reported the same problem, ( Steven Howell ),
but there was no answer. I already tried to send mail, but got also no response
yet.

My VRAM BIOS is 435-0022/23-10, and it reports itself as

V-RAM VGA BIOS Version 1.10

and I have jumpered 8-Bit ROM access for the tighter encoding.

So the question is:

Does anybody have seen this already ?

If anybody uses a VRAM in a 486, which BIOS Version do you have ?

I anything known about upgrade ROMs etc.?

Thanks to all who reply ( mail might be sufficient )

Reinhard Kirchner
Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Kirchner@informatik.uni-kl.de
From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: PS2 hard drives
Date: 12 Nov 1992 18:23:33 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu
Originator: news@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu

In article <1992Nov9.171030.4081@asbt01.gedlab.allied.com> b97459@asbt01.gedlab.allied.com (JIM JOHNSON) writes:
>
>	I have a friend with an IBM PS2 model 30 with a 20 meg hard drive. As
>you can guess the disk is full. My question is can an outboard hard drive be
>connected to this system like a second hard drive in an AT class computer. 

Yes, you can attach a serial-port drive to it, or you could get a SCSI 
adapter that will accommodate an external drive.  Probably both of these 
options would be more expensive than selling your old drive and buying
a bigger one, even though PS/2 drives cost a ridiculous amount.  I have
used the portable Bernoulli 90 external with their serial-scsi interface
kit with PS/2's and that works fine too.

You might find your best option is to get a copy of superstor or stacker.
A couple people were selling copies of stacker over in misc.forsale.computers.
pc-clone or something like that a couple days ago.  I think $50 was the
asking price.  If you are careful you can get good results out of those
packages.  If you make silly mistakes you can destroy everything, of course.

>What
>format hard drive does this beast use,(MFM,RLL,SCSI,?). 

MFM

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From: mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu (Allen Mulvey, SUNY, Oswego, NY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: IDE LL Format
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:02:11 GMT
Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY

I have been following the posts about low level formatting IDE drives with 
interest. Several months ago the Computer Shopper printed the following 
routine which they said will format virtually any drive including IDE 
drives. Unfortunately I did not record which issue I took it from. I have 
never attempted to use it as I have never had a software problem FDISK 
couldn't solve. Here it is. How does it (or doesn't it) work?

DEBUG LOW LEVEL FORMAT
F 200 L1000 0
A CS:100
MOV AX,301
MOV BX,200
MOV CX,1
MOV DX,80
INT 13
INT 20
<ENTER>
G

			Allen Mulvey
			mulvey@blurt.oswego.edu
From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Phoenix BIOS - How do you get to CMOS setup?
Date: 9 Nov 92 14:11:29 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1992Nov8.231153.11387@cbfsb.cb.att.com> rnichols@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (robert.k.nichols) writes:
>In my BIOS (Phoenix, 386) the ROM setup program is present, but there's
>no way to get to it during boot.  After booting, I can use DEBUG to
>run the ROM setup.  Of course, once the machine is up, it's easier just
>to type "setup" (the two programs are identical).

The above sometimes happens when the motherboard is configured for
128K of ROM space and your BIOS is 256K. I'd check the jumpers.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: southiea@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Southiere Alain)
Subject: Memory questions
Keywords: upgrade, speed
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 04:40:31 GMT


   Hello netters !

   I'm about to make a memory upgrade on my computer and I would like to
have answers for some questions first.

   There is my main problem. I have a 486-33 computer with 256k cache (if it
matters) and I would like to know about the speed of the memory I should
buy. I heard a few times that because the computer is very fast, you have
to have a wait state on memory acces, because the memory is too slow. It
makes sense to, and moreover, there's a wait state for memory in my CMOS
configuration. Well, I would like to what would be the memory speed 
required to get rid of that wait state. Is there fast enough memory available
on the market ?

   If for all memory available, I need to put a wait state, could I buy
slower memory without having to put 2 wait states ? If so, how slow
could the memory be ?

   BTW, if it's of some importance in the matter, I currently have 4 1-mb
modules and I plan to get 2 4-mb modules instead.

   Another question. One of my friend will soon buy a computer and he
would like to have 4 megs of RAM, we told him it would be better to put
4-megs modules for memory, but some people told us it's better to put
memory modules in pairs, is it true ?

   Thanks for your help.

   Please respond by E-mail, I don't currently have the time to read all
the messages here... But I would like to ! I wouldn't have to ask stupid
questions like these ! :-) :-)

-- 
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southiea@jsp.umontreal.ca | But if you try sometimes,              
--------------------------| You might find you get what you need ! 
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From: turabe@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Toshiyuki Urabe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SCSI or IDE.
Date: 5 Nov 92 07:42:06 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Hi,

Thanks for many answer about my question about SCSI or IDE HDD.
Simply, I have one more question.

Considering only speed, which has better performance for ususal
use of windows or OS/2 if both has same access speed?

-Toshi,
From: lmebold@csghsg5a.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Unexpected-Interrupt-Test FAILED (Award)
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:15:47 GMT
Organization: University of St.Gallen, Switzerland

In article <gillani.721491066@sfu.ca>, gillani@fraser.sfu.ca (Karim Gillani) writes:
> lmebold@csghsg5a.bitnet wites:
>>I've got a 486DX/33-EISA-System with an AWARD-BIOS.
>>When booting, the system is checked and several messages are written to
>>screen. One of them is: "unexpected Interrupts" - this test can be failed
>>or passed.
>>When booting the system (power on or reset) the system fails the
>>unexpected interrupts-test. When rebooting with ctrl-alt-del the
>>system passes this test. What does it mean, when the system-check
>>fails this test and why is it passed on a warm reboot?
>>By the way: the system works properly - I've never had a problem
>>(using a mouse, modem, soundblaster).
> 
>>Thanks in advance
> 
>>Luke
> 
> I also have the same motherboard (sort of)
> And I also had the same problem, I resolved it by changing the DMA-default of
> the controller card (EISA CARD) AND I have a suspicion that one of my cards were faulty (internal modem) I suggest taking all unecessary cards out and
> testing the motherboard, then systematically put one card in at a time, a check if you get that error
> 
> I hope this helps
> 
> Karim
 

So is it really only kind of an address-conflict problem or DMA-channel problem?
I just wondered wheter it's worse than that (some malfunction of the
motherboard). Can someone confirm/deny that?

Luke
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gregw@isaacs.uswest.com ( Greg Wilson)
Subject: upgrade: Cyrix 486DLC or video accelerator card?
Summary: looking for upgrade recommendation
Originator: gregw@isaacs
Organization: U S WEST Advanced Technologies
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:27:10 GMT

I'm thinking about upgrading my system and thought I'd harness the
net's collective wisdom.  I'm currently running a 386DX/25 with
8 MB RAM, 80 MB harddrive, and a high-resolution Hyundai 14" monitor
with Trident's 1 MB video card.  I run either OS/2 2.0 or 
DOS/Windows 3.1, selected at boot time, depending on the task I
want to perform.  I have my DOS partition Stacked and will do the
same to the OS/2 partition when OS/2 Stacker becomes available.

I'd like to improve the machine's "response," and wondered which of
the following would provide the most "bang-for-the-buck" (without
spending more than $200 to $300):

- graphics accelerator card: the ATI Graphics cards look like a good
  buy; other recommendations?

- Cyrix 486DLC CPU upgrade: does anyone know anything about this
  product? 

- complete motherboard transplant

I might be wrong, but I believe I've already maxed-out my machine's
RAM capacity.  I've also thought about a CD-ROM, but I'd guess that
anything compatible with OS/2 would be outside my price range.

Thanks in advance!

--
Greg Wilson   
gregw@uswest.com
From: trader@infopls.chi.il.us (Steve Kovack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Reclaiming memory    
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 01:22:09 CST
X-Maildoor: WaflineMail 1.00r

Nasir Ahmed Noor's fingers blurted out at All
on the subject of "Reclaiming memory from BIOS"

 NAN> When system starts up, it reports [familiar tick sound and RAM test]
 NAN> only 7808K. It should, according to my calcs, report 8192K [i.e. 8
 NAN> Meg]. I tried BIOS setup [<DEL> key]. In the very first screen, where
 NAN> one sets the date time and HD type etc, base memory is listed as 640K
 NAN> and extended memory as 7168K. I cant change or reset these values [the
 NAN> 'cursor' won't go there]. I tried turning video and system shadow off,
 NAN> but it does not solve the problem. I still see the total system mem
 NAN> tick to only 7808K. How can I claim the rest of 384K?

Nasir, it is most likely that you can't reclaim this memory. You can, if
you have it, look at your motherboard's manual and see if the is a strap
or switch that will relocate this memory. Otherwise it is probably hard-
wired into the area between 640k and 1024k. Sorry the news couldn't be
better.

l8r) Steve
trader@infopls.chi.il.us



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From: GLO92420@acuvax.acu.edu (Ohlhausen Gaylan Leon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SBPro / ATI Graphics Ultra Plus conflict
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:01:48 GMT
Organization: Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20

I am having a conflict between my Sound Blaster Pro card and my new ATI
graphics Untra Plus card.  Sometimes (especially in windows and in Elf Land 1)
the computer will lock up when a sound is being played (a sampled sound).  Thsi
happened all of the time when the bus speed was set to clckin/6.  It set it to
clckin/8 and some of the problems have stopped.
  When the speed was set to clckin/6, the computer would freeze during memory
tests at the start, and sometimes while loading devices in config.sys.  (It
also would freeze when printing out the startup banner (AMI BIOS)).

This was when the interrupt on the SBPro was on 7.  Now on 10 it locks up
sometimes, but not at all as frequent as before. (the drawback is that many
games do not support int 10).

When the computer would freeze up, on reset, it would seek drive B and not see
the hard drive until I powered it off for an extended amount of time.  The 
only time I could get it to lock up after changing the bus speed was when 
playing a sample through the SB on INT 7 - on int 10 it would not lock up
nearly as often, just many programs can't see int10 on a SB card. 


Can anyone see something that may be causing this problem that I am missing?

Here is my system:
AMD 386-40 w/ 64k cache 8MB 70ns RAM (bus speed now at 10MHz)
* CorelSCSI - 8bit on DMA 5 (That is all I could find on that one - if you need
more details, I cam leaf through the manual)
* SBPro - Int 10, DMA 1, Address 220-23F
* Generic IDE/Floppy Controller - I don't have any docs on this one
* I/O Card 1 - COM1/COM2 14550x2, LPT1  (INT 3,4 Addresses for COM1,COM2, INT 5
* I/O Card 2 - COM3 LPT2 (int 4 Address for COM3, No interrupt for LPT2)
* ATI Graphics Ultra +
     Uses COM4 addresses to communicate
     Uses interrupt 2, ports 2CE for mouse
     Remaps memory location 10MB to 13FFFFMB for Video card usage

The BIOS on the motherboard is AMI, (c)1990

Please e-mail my internet (or bitnet) address if possible as I do not read news
often.
GLO92420@ACUVAX.ACU.EDU - Internet
GLO92420@ACUVAX         - BITNET

Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: msfuller@cc.utah.edu (MARC S. FULLER)
Subject: MAG 17
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: 12 Nov 1992 16:50 MST  


I've a Mag 17 that I bought with a system from standard computer.  Can't tell 
you anything about reliablility, since I've only had it three weeks.  But the 
image is excellent and the screen is flat.  You can adjust the monitor so the 
image takes up the whole screen.  Now if only the rest of the system were that 
good!