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Subject: Fan for CPU chips
From: morganti@sc2a.unige.ch
Date: 7 Oct 92 19:35:42 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland


Hi,

	2 or 3 week ago I have seen in this group (or in comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc)
an news on a small fan for cooling CPU chips like 486DX2 50 or 66 MHz but I 
have lost the informations (address, price etc). Can somebody help me ?

Thank's
PYM

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith)
Subject: Re: Why is Maxtor 7213A so cheap???
Organization: The John P. Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 01:30:21 GMT

In article <1992Oct9.171224.13707@leland.Stanford.EDU> wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors) writes:
>>I've noticed that Maxtor has probably the cheapest 200MB hard drive. I've seen
>>it as low as $460 (cnd.) or $370 (US). Why so cheap. I know the drive is new, 
>>A friend of mine purchased the drive, his only concern was the drive was
>>a little noisy. ANy comments from the rest of the world?
>
>It is noisy.  My first one was too noisy, so I was able to get a
>replacement from Maxtor.  It's also noisy, but not as bad as the first.
>It's just a constant high pitched irritating whir.  I've heard that
>there were problems with the early ones, my new one has a PsomethingBA
>number of 63.  I guess they didn't spend much money on development.

I just got 2 of them (one for me, one for a friend).  I passed on my 7120
to someone else (130 Mb maxtor).  I noticed that, even though I got them
for $375 from my usual source, everyone else in the Oct. Comp. Shopper
wanted $450 minimum for the 212 Mb Maxtor.  Both are just as quiet as my
previous 7120A 130 Mb maxtor, and actually they look identical.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: bonak@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Esmail Bonakdarian)
Subject: Will IDE speed me up?
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 19:55:26 GMT
Reply-To: bonak@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Esmail Bonakdarian)
Organization: U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

I have a Northgate 386/25 tower which I am trying to "speed up".

I'm basically thinking about either (1) replacing the motherboard
with a faster CPU (I haven't sorted out the various upgradable 486
options yet) or (2) replacing my harddisk which is getting full and
seems slow to me (and waiting for the P5 or whatever is next).

I currently have an Adaptec 2372C RLL controller with an 108MB CDC
(94155.135?). I don't have the exact specs on the drive, but I think
the average seek time is between 25-30ms, track-track about 4.5ms,
with a 652 KB/sec transfer time.

I am thinking about a IDE drive in the 200MB range. I understand
that these drives have a much higher data transfer rate, and that
most of them are about 16ms - will this make a noticeable
difference? (I am open to specific suggestions for a drive too).
Should I expect to pay $5-600 for a drive (and controller/interface)
for this?

Any compatibility problems I should be aware of? My BIOS is AMI
dated April 9, 1990.

Thanks,
Esmail

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann)
Subject: Re: BubbleJet, InkJet, and Laser Printer
Organization: Zeos International, Ltd
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 02:12:18 GMT

In article <1992Oct11.012949.1@oread.cc.ukans.edu> gypsy@oread.cc.ukans.edu writes:
>I am currently in the process of deciding on the kind of printer to
>get for my IBM compatible system. The kind of printers I have to
>choose from are BubbleJet, InkJet, and Laser Printer. Could anyone
>tell me the difference between each and the advantages and disadvantages
>of each. Please reply, thanks.
>
>Gypsy
>

If you are looking for a good inexpensive laser printer, I would highly
recommend the OKI 400 Laser printer. It is a 4 ppm "laser printer" that 
is HP II/IIp compatible. The toner and image drum are seperate pieces.
This allows you to replace the toner w/o having to replace the entire
image drum. The price is around00-560. There is a five year warranty on
the print engine.

If your are in the market for an Ink Jet printer, I would consider the 
HP DESK Jeet 500/500C. C is color.


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From: bryanw@iastate.edu (Bryan J Welch)
Subject: Gravis Ultrasound - Comments?
Keywords: sound
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 22:12:04 GMT

I saw that the Gravis Ultrasound was for sale last week.  Could someone
who just got one give some comments?  Is it all it was advertised to be?

thanks,
Bryan Welch

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Center for Nondestructive Evaluation
Internet: bryanw@iastate.edu, bwelch@cnde.iastate.edu
From: korenek@ferranti.com (gary korenek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: No VL-BUS for 486/50 Mhz?
Summary: ZEOS on-board SCSI
Date: 8 Oct 92 17:47:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: ferranti.id.3LXT.TC7
Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation

In article <1992Oct07.152858.7427@zeos.com>, jre@zeos.com (Jim Erickson) writes:
>[...]
>   VESA allows the bus to go to 66MHz but the slots have electrical
> limitations which give them a maximum of 40MHz. Meaning if you have a
> VL-Bus device integrated onto the motherboard it can operate up to 66MHz
> but if you have a card in a slot, it can only go up to 40MHz.
> --JRE---
>[...]

Jim,

Your point (above) got me to thinking ...

How does ZEOS on-board SCSI interface operate?  In other words, even
though it is integrated on the motherboard, is it slowed down by any
bus limitations, does it operate at CPU speed, is it {16,32} bit,
does it provide a performance benefit over using a plug-in local-bus 
SCSI card?  Is it Adaptec-compatible (with UNIX in mind)?  Can the
ZEOS on-board SCSI be though of as 'local bus' (direct bus?) even 
though it may not be a true local bus device?

Thanks!
-- 
Gary Korenek (korenek@ficc.ferranti.com)
Ferranti  International  Controls  Corp.
Sugar Land, Texas          (713)274-5357
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill)
Subject: Hacking Compaq BIOS?
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 01:11:23 GMT
Reply-To: ahill@boi.hp.com
Organization: LaserJets by Bill & Dave
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

I'm in the middle of upgrading my dinosaur (a Compaq 386/20e), and was
trying to add a Quantum LPS240 to the system.  Unfortunately, even after
upgrading the ROMs to the latest version (R4), there isn't any entry in
the drive table even close to what I need, and this beast doesn't have
the capability of adding a custom configuration.

I'd like to hack a new entry into the drive table, but I need to know
where it is in the ROMs, the format, and how to recompute the CRC (I assume
there is one) for the ROMs.  Searching around in DEBUG didn't turn up
anything promising.  Is this information publicly available?

Thanks!

--
Andy Hill
ahill@boi.hp.com
From: ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Gateway 2000 66/dxs localbus
Date: 10 Oct 92 13:08:49 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Well folks ithere. Hooray! Last night my G2k arrived from the cowboys in South Dakota.
There has been some discudion on the net about what it comes with. I once and 
for all will clear it up. Especially in the graphics area. 
First off the card IS the ATI graphics ultra "PRO" It comes with 1meg vram expandable to 2megs. It is a local bus version. It is also capable of a RAMDAC 
upgrade(ie it has the socket ready to accept the chip allrready on board)
Second in 1 meg config it will do 1280x1024x16 NON-interlaced. The monitor
is the G2K 15' crystal scan. It will do 1280x1024 NON-interlaced.
All of this stuff is via the manuals inclyded with my system. There is laso
a neat driver included with the ultra pro for windows. It's called the flex desk dirver. I don't know if this is new to ati or what but it allows you to change
resolution with out going through the setup menu.
The memory of the cpu is 36 bit 72 pin 70ns 4meg chips. It will accept up to 64 meg of ram 
usin 36bit 72 pin 16 meg simms.
As far as speed goes it is fast. I clocked my sisters 386/25dx with 4 megs ram against
my 486 66 lb. The test was from off to cranking up windows with a bmp background
from the autoexec file.
Hers took 42 seconds. Mine took 15 seconds. Wow! If anyone wants to ask more questions of
me I'll be happy to aznswer....

ps where can I but vram. Please don't say look in computer shopper. I did but I can't find anyuone. If someone know please give address and phoine and anme. Thanks


BOYKIN,EDWARD D
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From: s_furrer@irau28.ira.uka.de (Andreas Furrer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SoundBlaster 1.5 recording
Date: 13 Oct 1992 11:18:36 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: irau28.ira.uka.de

I have got a Sound Blaster 1.5 and I want to record some
songs from a CD player.
The problem is that the SB 1.5 has only an input for
a microphone. If you use tthis input with the line out
of a CD player (or something else) the quality is not good.

The specs of the SB 1.5 input are:

10mV - 100mV, 600 Ohm

and of a normal line out:

-350mV, 30000 Ohm

Now, does anybody know some little electronic circuit diagramm
to convert the line out signal to the microphone specs?
I think, I have seen one in a german journal but I don't
know where.

Andreas Furrer
s_furrer@ira.uka.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: gfini@nyx.cs.du.edu (Gianluca Fini)
Subject: Monitors!!!
Summary: Monitors questions!!
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 12:39:53 GMT

What about 17'' monitors?
I could find a SAMPO Alphascan for a good price. Is it good???

Let me know something about it.
Thanks

e-mail to tbra380@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it
From: imcc@cs.strath.ac.uk (Iain McCord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Running high density drive on old 8088 under DOS 5.0
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:14:05 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Scotland.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Seth Chaiklin (psykseth@aau.dk) wrote:
: 
: wondering if we have mis-read the manual.  IS IT POSSIBLE? Has any one
: done this before.  All advice appreciated. 
  The 720K should be possible with the driver card that you probably have,
all that is needed is to use DRIVPARM to set the no of tracks to 80.  If
you have an older FDC then 1.44M is probably not possible. 
  If you have a machine that accepts external bios additions ( XT or later )
you can get a board for about 30 quid , check out the latest PC mags. 

: Cheers,
:   Seth
: 
: psykseth@aau.dk
-- 

		~~~~~/\~~~~~
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: csjohn@knuth.mtsu.edu (The Mad Hatter)
Subject: Ever heard of a Topaz Powermaker UPS?
Summary: Ever heard of a Topaz Powermaker UPS?
Organization: Dept. of CS, Middle TN State Univ, Murfreesboro, TN
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 21:35:25 GMT

I have just aquired a Topaz Powermaker Uninterruptable Power
Supply for my computer.  It uses 2 U1 Gel (Lead Acid) batteries.
Has anyone heard ofthese?  How good are they?  What are they
worth?  I would appreciate any information on this since I have
no documentation on it.  Thanks.

-- 
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  > > > Vote for freedom.  Vote Libertarian. < < <
From: darrylo@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:05:08 GMT
Subject: Re: aha-1542b & windows
Organization: Center for Primal Scream Therapy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, "kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com> writes:

> I need some assistance from people who've worked with the Adaptec 1542B
> SCSI controller and Windows 3.1.
     [ ... ]
> The problem is slow HD access under certain conditions.

     If you have ASPI4DOS, use it (see Mike Berhan's earlier posting).
If you don't have ASPI4DOS, get a copy of SCSIHA.SYS from the Adaptec
BBS.  To use SCSIHA.SYS, load it from CONFIG.SYS with the "/V386"
option, and delete the line containing "SMARTDRV.EXE /DOUBLE_BUFFER".

     -- Darryl Okahata
	Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com

DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
little green men that have been following him all day.
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 12:27:06 EDT
From: <JCT3@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP: My monitor's got the jitters

Often as monitirs get older, they need to warm up before they
work properly.  I have a simliar problem (including a focus
problem) with my Princeton Ultrasync.  After a few minutes
it works more or less ok.


Jim Thomas
From: syzygy@rhps.UUCP (Eric Swanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Comtrade Systems & NT
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 14:40:49 PDT
Organization: CrissySoft Incorporated

tim@boxhill.com (Timothy Jones) writes:

> Does anyone out there have experience with these systems?  They run big ads i
> Computer Shopper and have pretty competitive prices.  Of particular interest
> is their combination EISA/local bus machines.
    I unfortunately have experience with this company.  I bought the "486-33
Local Bus Win-Station."  The local bus graphics card (the S3-based one) ran my
DOS graphics slower than a trident 8900.  Windows was fast enough for SOME
MODES.  They've optimized the 1024x768 and let the 640x480 and 800x600 go to
pot.  The system's fine except for the graphics aspect.  Very poorly designed
drivers.  For example: the autocad driver, if you run it twice, installs twice.
 So if you decide, say, that you want to change graphics modes, you have to
reboot.  The Windows benchmarks (3.1) were good, but considering they were
using a coprocessor accelerator they weren't that spectacular.  Plus, the
turkeys shipped the graphics card with 100ns DRAMS.  When I called because I
was having driver problems, they shipped me a new graphics board (the one I got
first was 6 months old and had incompatibilities according to them), and it had
100ns chips.  I wanted to return it (I was told by their sales rep that the
local bus would speed my DOS graphics because it was onm a local bus, which is
not not not true, I know why now) so they offered to send 80ns chips...  I
opted to go with a Diamond Speedstar 24 which I'm very happy with.  (They
didn't have a 800x600x32k driver for the local bus card, which had 1MB).  I
wouldn't reccomend buying from Comtrade.
 -Eric Swanson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: AMM@westfd.msk.su (Andrew M. Merenkoff)
Subject: HELP! Color decoder ROM in the EGA monitor destroyed.
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 13:46:08 GMT
Reply-To: AMM@westfd.msk.su
Organization: Moscow Stock-Exchange House

        HELP, PLEASE!

    My ITT EGA monitor (XTRA Business Systems,
division of Alcatel Information System, Inc) is
out of order: color decoder ROM (TBP28S42) destroyed!
Can anybody help me to find information,
recorded in this color decoder ROM, or to find E-mail
address of any expert in XTRA Business Systems
company.

        Thanks!
 Andrew M. Merenkoff, E-mail: AMM@westfd.msk.su


Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ASM@snowyt.me.psu.edu (Aravind Melligeri)
Subject: Samsung pocket modem: has any one used ??
Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ., Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 02:05:29 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

Hello,                                                                          
I just got a new DAMARK catalog. They have Samsung 2400 baud pocket modem       
for $46.00 including shipping. this runs on a 9v battery. I was thinking of     
buying this to use with my PB100. Does anyone has idea how long the battery     
in the modem runs??. Most of the pocket modems I have seen has an external power
supply to put in but this doesn't have that option. So, the battery is the only 
option. Unless the battery goes on for couple hours it will be useless to buy   
this.                                                                           
If anyone has similar modem you should be able to help me.                      
thanx                                                                           

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From: dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (David T. Dudek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: HELP: Looking for MORE info on IBM-PC motherboard
Date: 11 Oct 92 21:24:32 GMT
Organization: UB

dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (David T. Dudek) writes:

>I purchaced a motherboard at a flea-market, and, like an idiot, I forgot to
>ask if there was any documentation on it.  It is an XT motherboard with an
>Intel P8088 CPU.  It has no distinctive markings that would inform me of
>it's manufacturer, but many of the chips say "IBM corp" on them, so one can
>assume...   

>It has two banks of 10 dip-switches (their purpose is unknown), 256K RAM,
                     ^^ 
             I goofed!  It has 8 dip-switches.

>and it appears to have two keyboard connectors side-by-side.  If anyone has
>any information on this board, or on the jumper and switch settings, it
>would be greatly appreciated.

First off, I would like to thank all the people who mailed me information.
If anyone would like a compilation of the replies I received, just mail me.

I have a few more questions on this motherboard:

1. Can I use a regular XT keyboard with this motherboard?  

2. If I felt like goofing around (for nostalgia's sake) with the cassette 
   connector, how would I go about doing it?  How do you connect it?  How 
   do you read from and write to it?  

3. What are the power requirements of this motherboard?  (ie: 100w, 150w,
   etc.)

4. Can I use 360K 5.25" and 720K 3.5" disk drives with this motherboard?

5. Has anyone ever managed to get this to fit in a regular XT case?

6. What DOS should I use with it?


 

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From: david@gdstech.grumman.com (David Nettles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: ** PC/XT DIP SWITCH SETTINGS **
Keywords: ibm pc,sampling,dsp,guitar,ad/da conversion,extension board
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:25:23 GMT
Reply-To: david@gdstech.UUCP (David Nettles)
Organization: Grumman Data Systems-Woodbury

I have an original IBM PC/XT and I cannot get the system to realize
that I have a printer/serial card installed in it.

I believe that it has something to do with the dip switches set on the
motherboard because I have the card configured correctly.

Could someone please tell me what dip switches and on what block of
switchs is important?

Thanks in advance!


David
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.bsd
From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
Subject: Re: Question on Diamond Clock Synthesizer
Reply-To: witr@rwwa.com
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 14:04:06 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.144110.8875@osf.org>,
   kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup) writes:

| In article <1992Oct14.033731.28397@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
| terry@icarus.weber.edu writes:
| >All this is now totally beside the point:  I now have it on good authority
| >that the original code posting was either accidently or maliciously "doctored"
| >to set the clock at the highest possible value -- 
| 
| >..."If someone compiles that code thinking that it will set up the clocks
| >for him, his monitor will likely go 'pop'".
| 
| Yeah. Right. Who is your "good authority"? Someone from Diamond Legal?

The good authority was Thomas Roell, but what he *really* said was that
it might fry a *chip on your card* and not the *monitor*.  The argument
was that in setting the chip to it's highest possible value it would
cause either it or the et4000 to dissipate excessive power and overheat.
Whether this would happen on all cards, only some, or possibly none of
them I do not know.  I was going to try it and give the chips the finger
test, but I don't have the time...

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From: dieter@dischw.toppoint.de (Dieter Fritzsche)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: aha-1542b & windows
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 92 19:52:53 MEZ
Distribution: world
Organization: Private Waffle Site

"kenneth tam" <kenneth.tam@canrem.com> writes:

First you HAVE to use the aspi4dos.sys driver in the first line of
your config.sys, none of the virtual memory additions of DOS will run
without that driver.

> 3 - I can't get away with not using Smartdrive, for a number of reasons;
> apparently with a bus-mastering DMA controller like the 1542, you _need_
> to load SmartDrive AND have it double buffering (or so MS claims, and
> I've had problems without Smartdrive, so I believe it.. on other
> 1542-equiped machines, if I didn't load Smartdrive /double_buffer before
> EMM386 for UMB's, the machine would just crash).
> 
You will have the best results using smartdrv without double-buffer.
In my system smartdrv is loaded high and runs quite fast.

                                                DIETER


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