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From: jja@astroatc.uucp (Jon Auringer)
Subject: Re: Princeton VGA monitor cable
Organization: Astronautics Technology Center
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:07:45 GMT

dhess@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Drew William Hess) writes:
: I have an old Princeton monitor (capable of 800x600, a multi-sync); sorry,
: can't remember the number, but it does 800x600 and it's about a 13" screen.  

There is a probably a good reason you can not remember the model number,
PGS did not like to give their products numbers :) I have one of their
first models, the Ultrasync. This has aproximately 11" diag screen. It
sounds like you have a Ultrasync 14.

: Anyways, I've been running it off an EGA system until now; now I want to
: attach it to a VGA adapter but the cable I have is the wrong type.  Does
: anyone have *any* idea:

: a) how I can contact Princeton (are they still in business?)

I am not sure of the status of Princeton, but the phone number given
in the latest review of one of their products, was for a company called
Ultimate Display Solutions Inc. I sent my Ultrasync to them for repair,
They seem to have done a decent job, and the turn-around was quicker
than promised.

: b) where I can get the necessary cable?

1) The monitors were sold with 9-pin and 15-pin cables. If you are the
original purchaser, check that you don't already have one laying around.
(Like I did :). If you got it from someone else, ask them if they have it.

2) Call UDSI and ask them.
	Ultimate Display Solutions Inc
	1125 Northmeadow Pkwy., Suite 120
	Roswell, GA 30076
	(404) 664-1010 phone (They have an 800 #, I would have to dig it up)
	(404) 664-4103 fax

3) Check the local computer stores (Not the discount houses.).

4) Make your own cable or adapter (what I did before I found the cable
:(). I used a standard VGA cable and rewired a 9-pin to 25-pin adapter.
If you want to do this, let me know. I have the manual, with the pinouts,
and a little experience.

: Thanks.

Hope I could help. These monitors are kinda small, but the color and
clarity are top notch. I am driving mine with a ATI Integra
(800x600x256) with good results.

: -dwh-
: dhess@cs.stanford.edu
: 

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jzawodn@bgsu.edu (jeremy zawodny)
Subject: Wanted: Jumper settings for my generic multi-I/O card...
Organization: Bowling Green State Univ.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 03:19:31 GMT

 
I have a multi-I/O card for my system that I want to reinstall, but I seem
to have lost the jumper reference card.  This is a very popular card, as I
have seen it sold all over Computer Shopper.
 
The name printed on the chips is "Winbond."  The card has 12 jumpers, all
of which have 3 pins (that means every jumper has 1, 2, and 3).
 
I need to know what they all do!
 
Any replies would be greatly appreciated!
 
Please reply via EMAIL..
 
Thanks,
 
Jeremy
 
BTW, this card offers 2 serial, 1 parallel, and 1 game ports.
                                                  
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From: jt2@prism.gatech.EDU (TROSTEL,JOHN M)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Floppys only read at half density!!!
Date: 30 Dec 92 04:03:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Alright, here's a good one.  I am helping a friend set up his new 486SX33
system. AMI Bios / Taiwan board.  Everything seemed to be working fine
until I tried to boot off the 5 1/4" drive to setup the new HDD.  It won't
read 1.2 Mb disks! I tried everything. I tried all sorts of jumper combinations
on the ESDI Multi I/O board and on the motherboard.  The docs which came
with the motherboard don't mention operating with a 33 MHz SX chip but by
comparisons with the jumper settings for the 25SX and 33DX with 50 and 33 MHz
oscillators, I figured out which jumpers halved the oscillator speed and 
which ones were for SX vs. DX vs. SX with a co-processor.  I then tough it
might be the drive so I incrementally replaced the drive, the cable, and the
controller with the drive, cable, and controller from my home machine.  IT
GAVE ME THE SAME RESULTS. (The 1.2 Mb FDD only read 360K floppies - and will
even boot from them! - but NOT 1.2).  So, I'm bringing the motherboard and 
controller back tommorow but I'm still puzzled by the problem.

What could cause these, obviously OK controllers and drives, to act like this?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pastor@prc.unisys.com (Jon Pastor)
Subject: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro Drivers for Gateway
Organization: not much...
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:20:34 GMT

I got the following from Gateway tech support:

> We are not shipping the Build 50 drivers.  They fix many of the problems that
> were in previous versions, such as the printer problems, but they also use
> too many system resources.  This unfortunately causes out of memory errors,
> even on a 16M system with no applications running.  For this reason, we are
> not shipping the drivers with our systems.
> 
> Hopefully the next set will work better, but we do not support the Build 50
> version.
> 
> Glenn - Gateway 2000

Any comments from people who've downloaded Build 50 and tried to use?
From: limrcd@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Richard LIM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Monitors made in US?
Date: 23 Dec 92 02:49:41 GMT
Organization: HP Singapore Notes-Server

| <wbedard@corvus.usc.edu> writes:
| 
|         I regards to the monitor question, correct me if I'm wrong, but I 
| believe that Nanao, out of Los Angeles, CA is an American made monitor.  In all
| honesty, though, with a name like that I wouldn't be surprised if someone told m
| e
| that it was foreign owned or operated...

Yup! I hate to tell you this but Nanao is the US trademark of Eizo
of Japan!

They are good but very pricey!

Regards
Richard Lim     "A conclusion is where you get tired of thinking"
======================================================================
E-mail:  hpsgm2.SGP.HP.COM!limrcd  Snail-mail: Hewlett-Packard S'pore
Tel:     (065)-279-2525                        (APD-ThinFilm SS/EE)
Telnet:        520-2525                        1150 Depot Road
HPDesk:  Richard Lim/HP3200/30                 Singapore 0410.

*** The above opinions are my own and not HP! ***
From: frank@ut-emx.uucp (Frank Abernathy, ET1(SS))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DUST!  was: Monitor Damage PERMANENT?
Summary: check connectors too
Date: 1 Jan 93 17:02:45 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas



Lots of good comments from Keithl@klic.rain.com.

Concerning the 'yellow' crt problem that is intermittent.

While you have the top off, check and reseat all of the connectors.
Especially the ones that go the the board or connector at the electron
gun of the crt.

Loose connections there can often cause intermittent color problems.

Good luck
frank

-- 
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Work: (512)-471-3216      Home: (512)-244-0625 (talk to the ans. mach.) 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: speck@stsci.edu
Subject: HELP: How to detect VGA in vertical retrace
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:48:36 GMT



I'm doing some graphics programming in quick-BASIC, and I have a question.
I have a bunch of ray-traced images that I want to display, to provide
animation.  I want to load entire screens consecutively, as rapidly as possible.
I have a VGA monitor but only 256K of video RAM.  My machine is a 386SX 
running at 16 MHz.  For now, what I do is create about a 3 meg RAMDISK, then
copy all of my image files onto the disk.  Then, from the RAMDISK, I run
a program which essentially BLOADS (BASIC command) each of the images into
video ram, one after the other.  I find BLOAD to be MUCH faster than GET
and PUT.  However, I get strange effects on the screen, such as "refresh"
"lines" that move up and down the screen.  I asked someone about this, and
they said that I was writing my images to screen when the monitor was in
vertical retrace mode.  This person said I had to find a way to make sure
my monitor WAS NOT in this retrace mode.  If I BLOAD an image at such a time,
the "beating" effects between the BLOAD's and the screen retraces would be
eliminated.  Does anyone know of how to write a BASIC program that checks
the appropriate bits/bytes as to whether the screen is in vertical retrace 
or not?  Any other suggestions?  Thanks in advance.

Scott in Baltimore.
From: matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: AMD 40Mhz SXL for sale
Date: 29 Dec 92 21:25:01 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ssivakum@ptdcs2.intel.com (Sam Sivakumar)
Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
Organization: Intel Corporation -- Aloha, Oregon
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:21:46 GMT

In article <1ht90eINNei0@hpscit.sc.hp.com> matthias@nsr.hp.com (Matthias Kamm) writes:
>: 
>: The usual route is exactly as Danny had stated: test every part at 33MHz.
>: If it fails, test it at 25.  If it fails, keep going down until you are
>: out of speed.
>
>This is very possibly wrong.  If this were the case, then the cost of test for
>the 16Mhz chip would be three times that of the 33Mhz chip (assuming 33,25,16
>speed grades for their microprocessors).  

	Any and all metrology (CD or film thickness measurements during the
fabrication process, as well as testing) are non-value-added steps.  So, we
are constantly under pressure to either improve the control of our process,
which would enable us to eliminate some of these measurements or otherwise
to at least decrease the time it takes for measurements.  
	As I said in an earlier posting, I do not work in sort/test, but
I am frequently referring to their reports on wafer lots that we processed 
through the line.  A single test is done that skews both voltage and speed
while monitoring functionality.  Thus, at the end of the test, every chip
on the wafer is "binned" into a speed category or inked indicating failure.
	It must also be borne in mind that chip manufacturers have various
process lines in operation at the same time.  Apart from the familiar 
distinctions like a 1 um CMOS process, or a 0.8 um HCMOS process, or a 
0.5 um BiCMOS process, each process can also have sub-processes that have
slightly different gate lengths.  There is usually some flexibility in 
trading off process margins in the fab (leading to lower yields, possibly)
for smaller device features while still using the same process.  Some of
these techniques can be used by manufacturers to offer slightly enhanced
versions of the vanilla products that came out earlier.  
	If anyone has any specific questions on how an IC manufacturing
line is run in practice, I would be happy to answer them to the best of
my ability.  Without attemting to sound like an Intel spokesman, I can say 
that we do test the heck out of the chips that leave our factories.  While
we may use statistical sampling to check for example, the metal film thickness
on a batch of wafers in the line, EVERY individual chip undergoes electrical
testing.
	By the way, much or all of what I said above applies to just about
any reputable semiconductor manufacturer in the world.

-- 
Sam Sivakumar		    |  Intel's very own lithography dude, 
ssivakum@ptdcs5.intel.com   |  Speakin' for himself, that's for sure!
PTD, Aloha, OR              |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell)
Subject: IBM WDLA 42 drive settings ?
Distribution: world
Organization: The Home for Three Headed Canines
Reply-To: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk
X-Mailer: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.18)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 19:05:32 +0000


Does anybody out there now the settings for an IBM wdla42 drive to
use as the master of a dual drive setup

--

anthony

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: yxl5388@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Y.X. Liu)
Subject: Re: Viewsonic 6FS vs. NEC 3FGx
Originator: yxl5388@ultb
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 19:43:54 GMT

In article <85622@ut-emx.uucp> reza@magellan.ae.utexas.edu (Alireza Vali) writes:
>Hello out there.  I've grown sick & tired of my interlaced, flickering
>monitor.  The 17" monitors are definitely out of my price range, and 
>another 14" monitor is out of the question.  Given that, I've been
>looking at various 15" monitors and have narrowed down my choices to
>the Viewsonic 6FS and the NEC 3FGx.  The two are identically priced
>and the specs are somewhat similar so it's time to move from objective
>to subjective comparisons.  Does anyone have first hand experience 
>using either or both of these monitors?  If so, I would appreciate any
>feedback on the subject.  Please respond by e-mail because I will miss
>all the followups because of the upcoming holidays.  Thanks in advance.
>
>
>-- 
>Ali R. Vali - reza@magellan.ae.utexas.edu

Get the Viewsonic. The NEC3FGx has a huge wide border that the actual
display area is maybe around 13".
From: lsmith@unssun.nevada.edu (Larry Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: IBM 5170 hd prob.
Date: 24 Dec 92 15:36:26 GMT
Reply-To: lsmith@unssun.nevada.edu (Larry Smith)
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno


HI,

	I need some help with an old IBM 5170 AT, I need to install a
Seagate ST-225 hd, and I have no docs for the drive or pc. The IBM
setup program lists drive types 1-15 which would I use for the Seagate
ST-225?

 Just the facts ma'm.....
                         LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday
 Facts? I don't need no stinkin' facts!
                                     Rush Limbaugh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: pf@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu (Paul Furbacher)
Subject: Mylex VESA L-Bus M-boards
Organization: Purdue University
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:41:57 GMT

Does anyone have impressions pro/con concerning Mylex's
new VESA Local Bus motherboards (ISA/EISA)?  Are current 
Mylex offerings as award winning as the older ones which
used to be used in ZEOS computers (386 PCs and their EISA
machines)?  They seemed to be more able than just about
anyone else to get the most performance out of Intel 
chips, especially in the area of caching.  Still true?

Anything better on the market?  How do ZEOS' in-house 
designed motherboards stack up against comparable 
ones from Mylex and Micronics?

Please reply by e-mail.  Thanks.

PF 

.  Paul Furbacher
.  Dept. of Biological Sciences
.  Purdue University
.  West Lafayette, IN  47907-1392
.  pf@bilbo.bio.purdue.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: cs902021@ariel.yorku.ca (BOYCOTT A DEAZLE)
Subject: Jumper Settings for dtk P11-17 Multi-IO Board Needed
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 14:45:21 GMT

I got this nice Multi-IO board second-hand but I didn't remember to ask
what the jumpers were.  If you have any Multi-O board please tell me
what the jumpers are.  Anything will help. Thanx.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Subject: Re: Will Windows crawl on my system?
Organization: UESPA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:15:33 GMT

In <1992Dec28.011124.6964@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:


>I think it's laughable that some people bought the sage advice 2 or 3
>years ago and got 386-sx-16's.  I'm motoring along with my 286-25, which
>runs rings around 386 sx-16's and 20's.  I've run enough benchmarks to
>come to the conlusion that my 286-25 is at least as speedy as a 386-DX-20.
>I run windows with CorelDraw 3.0, Ventura 2.0, and I dabble with wordperfect
>for windows, but I think it's a little slow.

I'm certainly not suprised to hear that a 286-25 can run pure Windows
better than 386sx-16.  But, as I pointed out, a 286-25 machine is
pretty unusual.  Most people with ATs have the older 286s, which are
12 mhz or slower.

In any case, it makes little sense to compare fast 286s with slow
386s.  That's not the choice most buyers face.  Judging from the ads I
see, most dealers don't even try to sell 286s faster than 12 mhz.  So
the typical buyer is usually faced with buying a 286-12 system or
spending a couple hundred extra and getting a 386sx-16 system.  Unless
the buyer just can't afford the difference, sacrificing Windows
Enhanced mode *and* 25% speed  is a bad way to save money.

The same user might save a few dollars by finding a dealer who
actually stocks 286-16s, but that hardly seems worth the trouble.


>As for the 386-enhanced modes, isin't that a slower mode than the standard
>mode?  Look folks, how many people out there (percentage wise) really
>benefit from or even use the task-switching or multi-tasking dos-box
>or whatever it is that the enhanced mode lets you do?

This is an issue of backward-compatiblity, which is the only reason
any of us are bothering with Windows in the first place.  All of us
have DOS applications we need to use.  (If you're not a DOSier, why
not buy a Mac, now that they're the same price?)  In standard mode,
you *cannot* run DOS programs and Windows simultaneously; you can only
suspend Windows until you are done with the DOS program.  That makes
using DOS and Windows software together pretty painful.  In enhanced
mode, you can use a DOS program almost as if it were a Windows
program, with cut&paste, side-by-side programs, etc.   I find most of
my DOS programs easier to use under Windows enhanced mode than when
they have the machine all to themselves.

You concern about enhanced mode slowing down the machine is misplaced.
Even a 16mhz CPU has a mind-boggling amount of computing power, and
IMHO most attempts to "conserve" said power accomplish little except
to make life complicated.
-- 

	ergo@netcom.com 			Isaac Rabinovitch
        {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo	Santa Cruz, CA
	
	Abstinence makes the heart grow rounder.
		-- Prescot Gooberstein
From: castello@remus.rutgers.edu (Vicente Castello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: NEED ADVICE ON 486-33 MOTHERBOARDS
Keywords: 486-33 EISA Local Bus
Date: 26 Dec 92 23:55:56 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	I am planning to upgrade a 80386 computer system to a 486. The
current system is using DOS 5.0 and Microsoft Windows 3.1. In the near
future, I am planning to use Windows NT and some version of UNIX.

	I am having a tough time in deciding which 486 motherboard to 
buy. I have more or less decided on a few features. The feature that
is most important to me is that I want the motherboard to be a name
brand, i.e Mylex, Micronics, etc. The following are some of the name 
brands, which also includes their respective price:

UMC 486-33 256K cache EISA         ;  778
Opti 486-33 256K cch EISA local bus;  805
Micronics 486-33 256K cache EISA   ;  979
Mylex 486-33 256K cache EISA       ;  979

	If you had experience in any of the above motherboards, I would
appreciate it if you can give me some feedback. Please note, I am
planning to install the new motherboard in an AT case. Its not a
tower case. So, the installation is also important to me. I want the
motherboard to fit correctly.

	Also, I was kind of wondering why there is a tremendous difference
in price between the Micronics 486-50 EISA and the Mylex 486-50 EISA.
Is there a big difference between Local Bus and EISA? 

	I've heard that Local Bus works well with software that deals
extensively with graphics, i.e CAD programs. Is this true?

Mylex 486-50 256K cache EISA       ; 1188
Micronics 486-50 256K EISA Local   ; 1488

--Vicente Castello
Organization: Middle East Technical University - Computer Center
Date: Thursday, 24 Dec 1992 12:00:18 TUR
From: bahadir guler <E62095@TRMETU.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 1024*768

Is it possible to control whether a video card support 1024*768 or not?Is there
 any applications out there to manage this?

Thanks ..
bahadir guler
From: denham@hmsp04.wg3.waii.com (Scott Denham X7117)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 16 Bit VGA help
Date: 29 Dec 92 17:46:49 GMT
Organization: Western Geo. - Div of Western Atlas Intn'l Inc., Houston, TX
Originator: denham@hmsp04.wg3.waii.com


Posting for a friend who has been having trouble getting his new system
to work as expected...

Configuration: 

   486SX/25 motherboard with ETEQ chipset 
   Orchid ProDesigner IIs (1Mb) SVGA adapter 

With this combination, the Orchid board indicates (and uses) only
256K of display memory when installed in a 16 bit slot in the 486.
It operates correctly in this mode, but with only 1/4 of the installed
display memory usable.  When installed in an 8 bit slot on the MB, 
the board correctly indicates (and uses) 1024K of display memory. The
same card works fine in a 286/12 motherboard in either 8 or 16 bit
slots. 
 
When installed in the 486 motherboard, the card appears to the system
to be a 16 bit card, but apparently the Orchid diagnostic programs 
indicate the board is operating in 8 bit mode. 

The original Orchid card had this and other problems and was replaced under
warantee. The outfit he got the motherboard from issued him an RMA but
went bust, apparently before doing anything with the motherboard. He felt
lucky just to get it back!

Suggestions appreciated... 

 Scott Denham
 denham@waii.com
 Scott_Denham@f7511.n106.z1.fidonet.org