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From: massoud@chemteca.sdsu.edu (Massoud Ajami)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: POST/BIOS Error 601
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 17:27:56 GMT
Organization: San Diego State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.191.227.22
Summary: What does the "601" error mean?

In article <1993Jan2.081019.14712@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au> ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (Ian Staples) writes:
>From: ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (Ian Staples)
>Subject: POST/BIOS Error 601
>Summary: What does the "601" error mean?
>Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 08:10:19 GMT
>Hi, I hope this is an appropriate group for this post.  Please help if you can.
>
>My LOGI 88-XT has lost its floppy disk drives:
>
>On bootup, I simply get the cryptic message "601" after the POST memory test.
>The machine then politely requests "Press F1 to continue".  When you press F1
>it continues to boot from drive C:, but there is no sign of "testing" the
>floppy drives as part of the boot process.  The drives remain dead.  If you
>try to read a directory or otherwise use one of them, you get the message
>"Drive not ready...".  There is no indication that the machine attempted to
>access the drive in question - i.e. no noise and no drive light on.
>
>Does anyone know what the error "601" indicates?  I assume it is a BIOS
>error message of some sort, relating to the failed FDDs.  Is it telling me
>anything useful, or is it just some sort of general statement of failure?
>
>The system is an XT using the NEC V20 chip.
>BIOS is Award ("Licensed")  [What other sort do they sell? :)]
>640k memory
>Multi-I/O Card for FDDs, clock, parallel printer port, etc.
>HDD	Miniscribe Model 8425 with RLL controller to give 30 meg drive
>FDDs	A: is 5 1/4" 360k
>	D: is 3 1/2" 720k (configured as an external drive to get 720k)
>       [B: is physically the 3 1/2" drive, but machine thinks it is 360k].
>EGA Monitor
>XT/AT Keyboard [which occasionally gives problems too - error "301"]
>
>Any help gratefully received.  Thank you, and Happy New Year.
>
>Ian S.
>
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Error 601 is the power failure for floppy during diagnostics. Check the 
power line to the drive, or it might be the failure of the board to report 
as being alive.
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From: masten@beta.lanl.gov (David A. Masten)
Subject: Where can I find ATI Graphics Ultra Pro Drivers?
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:34:14 GMT

Gateway sent me their 33mhz 486 VLB system without any software for
the included ATI Graphics Ultra Pro card.  Nor any manual.  
Are their Windows drivers available from any anonymous ftp site?

As soon as I find ATI's number I'll try them.  

More Gateway horror stories:
They told our purchasing not to expect the missing software till after
the 1st.  So much for service.
But it's worse than that.  When they first shipped the system, it didn't
have a hard drive!  So much for "installed software, already optimized".
Cute trick without a hard drive!  Took about 3 weeks to get the drive
shipped.

I'm not getting another system from them, ever.

Dave Masten
masten@beta.lanl.gov
From: edwong@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu (Edward Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: UART 16550afn seller needed!
Date: 21 Dec 92 12:37:49 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Boston University Information Technology Boston, MA USA
In-reply-to: leo@snake31.cs.wisc.edu's message of 16 Dec 92 22:19:05 GMT

>>>>> On 16 Dec 92 22:19:05 GMT, leo@snake31.cs.wisc.edu (Leo Lim) said:

:> Hi there!

:> 	I need to replace my UART 8250 with UART 16550 afn. Is it possible?
:> If so, Does anybody know where to get it at pretty good price?
:> I knew it was something like $49/ chip.

really? grab a computer shopper, at the back, there is a computer called
JDR microdevices that is selling the chip for around $15.  For $49 you can
get a whole new I/O card!

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From: cbusch@ub.d.umn.edu (Chris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Packard Bell experiences
Date: 3 Jan 1993 02:06:52 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth
NNTP-Posting-Host: ub.d.umn.edu

Packard Bell computers are POS's, they are junk dont buy 'em.
  My father unfortunately bought a Legend 725DX (a 386 25mhz DX, I dont
know why they call it a 725????) and it is full of problems.  First of
all the 3 1/2 in floppy died. (Waited 2 months for Best Buy (NOT!) to
return it fixed!!)  Then a month later more trouble!  When the computer
was turned on (or rebooted) the POS gave a fixed disk error and said to
press F1  (or F2 for setup).   My dad was  tolerating that for about a week
but then the computer starting to mysterious reboot when it felt like it!!!
He brought it to Best "BAD" Buy and had to wait 2.5 months for those
SOBs to replace the motherboard and hard drive!!! (Oh yea, when he got
it back, it lacked its 4 meg that it had!! Another trip to Bad Buy!).  
A happy ending right? WRONG!!!! GUESS AGAIN!!!
The computer started to ask for that F1 message again (for the hard
drive, does any one have any clue way the PB does this??? Please write
me about it.)  My father is not too thrilled about waiting 2 to 3 months
for his computer to get fixed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In addition, the cpu makes a high pitch ringing!!!! Also the junk PB
8538 SV monitor is garbage too.  It makes noises too!  

I have also heard that PBs are not very accepting when it comes to
reprogramming the timer interrupt at higher speeds.

Packard Bell computers are garbage.  They are EVIL!! Dont buy one!!!!

Since I am in a poor mood, I'll mention I hate Seagate drives.  Those
pieces of garbage suffer from stiction!  I thought only cars got
stuck!!! In fact my rear wheel drive car got stuck massively fewer times
than that drive I knew! (BTW I live in Minnesota brrrrrrrrrrrrr! dont
move here, it is way toooooo cold and tooo snowy)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: Brandon.Vanevery@launchpad.unc.edu (Brandon Vanevery)
Subject: DX2/66 benchmarks for Gateway, Zeos, Dell?
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:42:47 GMT


I'd like some hard numbers on the performance of these 3 machines, such as
from PC Benchmarks 7.0 (6.0 would do).

Anyone have them?


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From: csas400@msus1.msus.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Blowing up the comRe: Is the amd 386 40Mhz by Cyrix, if so is it crap ?
Date: 22 Dec 92 16:58:02 GMT
Organization: Minnesota State University System

In article <1fvg8lINNj1v@nutmeg.csv.warwick.ac.uk> cstaddc@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M A Stuart) writes:
>	Hi, a little while ago I brought a Cyrix maths copro which blew
>my current computer up.

I've been using the Cyrix 387+ chip for a while now (and it didn't "blow up" my
computer).  In the installation instructions it did mention that you would
cause perminent dammage by installing the 387 improperely (ie. the wrong
direction).  They went out of there way to mention the fact that the 387 might
not /look/ like it's sitting the right direction and to use the Pin#1 indicator
on the chip to line up with the Pin#1 indicator on the mother board.



				-Jeffrey E. Hundstad
From: jowalker@zeus.calpoly.edu (Jonathan Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SCSI hard drive question
Date: 28 Dec 92 23:00:52 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Can anyone explain the advantages of a SCSI drive and controller over an
IDE drive and controller?
I have read that they actually perform worse than IDE drives. Is the
only advantage that you can link numerous SCSI devices together?

Also, does a SCSI device require an EISA or LB slot or do they work in
ISA slots?

Thanks,
J. Walker
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From: bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Future Domain phone number?
Date: 24 Dec 92 16:13:51 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX

I am looking for a phone number (or numbers) for Future Domain.
I have a TMC-840 SCSI adapter and am in desperate need of a DOS
driver for it (so that I can use it with two MFM drives).

Please e-mail replys.  Thanks in advance for any help.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Just how fast is SCSI-II, really?
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:26:57 GMT

In article <yB8cVB1w165w@Fateepee.CAM.ORG> tommy@Fateepee.CAM.ORG (Tommy Petrogiannis) writes:

>There are 3 (actually 4) flavors of SCSI-II peripherals.
>	1) SCSI-II @ 5MB/sec (this is the 4th flavor but nobody should use it)
>	2) SCSI-II @ 10MB/sec (the majority of SCSI-II peripherals)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I've heard this referred to as Fast-SCSI.
>	3) Wide SCSI-II @ 20MB/sec (uses a 16 bit data path)
>	4) Wide SCSI-II @ 40MB/sec (uses a 32 bit data path)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Would this then be Fast Wide SCSI?




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From: copernicus@digund.uucp (Copernicus) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: VEGA 486F-2VL motherboard
Date: 28 Dec 92 20:41:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Digital Underground - PRIVATE
Reply-To: copernicus@digund.uucp (Copernicus) 

To: wachtel@emperor.gatech.edu

SW>Does anyone have experience with motherboards built
  >by YMS (Young Micro Systems), a USA made motherboard?

SW>I'm interested in the 486F-2VL (486 motherboard with
  >2 VESA-local slots).

SW>Also, since it uses a Symphony chipset, I'm interested
  >if anyone has had compatibility problems with designs
  >that use this chipset.

SW>Thanks.


I would like to hear what you have heard about this also, if you could
mail me a summary.

Chris Nalley
copernicus@digund.uucp
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
Subject: Re: Why memory costs doubled
Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 21:29:39 GMT

chuckc@fc.hp.com (Chuck Cairns) writes:

>Joe Trott (joet@dcatlas.dot.gov) wrote:
>: 
>: NO!  Not supply and demand; you are unfortunately paying for the result of
.
.
.
>  You have it exactly backwards.  If dumping is allowed to go
.
.
.
>
I did send my reply to this portion of your post through email.  Paraphrasing,
on a MICROeconomic level, a "forceless" "solution" is next to impossible,
however on a MACROeconomic level, as I said, what goes around comes around,
with no way that I see to avoid it.  It just takes a little while sometimes;
unfortunately longer than some people are willing to wait.

As to this part...
>PF: (Post Flame :-) )
>> In the U.S. now, rather than act to secure individual rights (the sole
>> purpose for which it was chartered), the government "works" by granting
>What Absolute Poppycock!!!  SOLE reason ... !?

>Preamble US Constitution: (note "promote the general Welfare")

The Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution, was the charter for
our government.  At the risk of paraphrasing (this from memory), it reads in
part: We hold these truths to be self evident; that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that
among these rights are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness; to secure
these rights, governments are instituted among men..."  That last part says it
all, "to secure these rights...".  I don't believe our Founding Fathers were
so naive as to believe that _all_ governments were formed for that purpose,
but *ours* *was*.  The Constitution is a "how-to" manual, very good and
useful, but meaningless unless it is interpreted in the light of the goal(s)
it was meant to achieve.  You would not try to learn Microsoft Word by
reading a manual for WordPerfect; your and the former manual's goals aren't
the same.

For those who are interested in a more in-depth, intellectual treatment of
what true capitalism is, and how our system deviates and is deviating from
it, I would suggest _Capitalism:_The_Unknown_Ideal_, part of the Ayn Rand
Library, and likely to be found with her other books in the philosophy
section of your local bookstore.  It is a collection of essays, bearing on
reality, not mere philosophizing; it includes at least one by Alan Greenspan,
though it's been too long since I read it for me to remember other authors'
names.

-JTT
From: jregehr@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (John David Regehr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: what is XCMOS and why is it causing problems?
Date: 23 Dec 1992 21:20:36 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

I pulled the motherboard out of my 386/20 DX today and installed a Cyrix
387.  When I put it back together and turned the computer on, I got an
error message on bootup that said:

XCMOS checksum error

So, I figured the 387 was causing problems and removed it, but the error
message was still there.  Also, in the setup screen my memory access is
now listed at 1 wait state instead of 0.  This makes the memory check on
bootup very slow.     
                               
Norton SI 6.0 couldn't find anything wrong with the CMOS, and the system
configuration is constant so I don't think I have a battery problem.

I would like to know: what is XCMOS, and what do I need to do to get it
working?  A 386/20 is slow enough without halfing memory access time.

Thanks.

                                                - John
From: bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: ATI VESA driver supporting 24 BIT COLOR?
Date: 31 Dec 92 02:12:08 GMT
Organization: a2i network

I was very angry when I discovered the VESA driver that came with my ATI
Graphics Ultra Plus only supports 8bit color!  how stupid..

Does anyone know if there is a VESA driver supporting 15bit or 24bit color?
I find this VESA driver very underpowered..  It is inexcusable to pay $340
for a SVGA card with acceleration, and then get this kind of driver
support!

I must say though, the Windows drivers work fairly well..

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen)
Subject: Re: Packard Bell experiences and Best Buy service
Keywords: Best Buy service Packard Bell 
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 04:34:06 GMT

mroberds@mcs213c.cs.umr.edu (Mathew C Roberds) writes:

>    Best Buy's service isn't very good on other items either.  I had an
>AIWA stereo bought from them, that I took to their local service center
>for repair...Paid $75 and they said they fixed it, a few weeks later it quit
>again so I took it back and paid more (about $30 I think, maybe more) waited
>about a week and a half and it STILL wasn't fixed right.  Moral:  

You shouldn't have paid again the second time.  If they didn't fix it
the first time it's their obligation to fix the thing.  I'd demand
your money back if you can...

Mike
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From: barrett@aminet.uucp (Keith Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Need vendor opinions for 486/33
Date: 4 Jan 93 01:06:57 GMT
Reply-To: barrett%aminet@nuconvex.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Waterbury USENET/UUCP
X-Copyright: (c) 1992 Keith Barrett; May be distributed freely, Not for sale
X-Disclaimer: Statements expressed are not representitive of any employer
X-NewsSoftware: XRN V6.17 Amiga UNIX SVR4

I'm looking into buying a 486/33. After scanning COMPUTER SHOPPER, I've
come up with the following possibilities:


ZENNON
CORNELL
COMTRADE
ARES

Anyone have experiences (good and bad) with these vendors? Support, delivery,
hardware compatibility, reliability, etc.

Please email me with any opinions or experiences you may have.

Thanks!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
From: lamont@catfish16.rtsg.mot.com (Bradley Lamont)
Subject: '040 clock doubling (was Re: "Windoze" slow?)
Reply-To: lamont@rtsg.mot.com
Organization: Motorola, Inc.
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:35:37 GMT

Looking at a Motorola 68040 data book, the '040 has 2 clocks (BCLK and PCLK).
PCLK is used internally and is 2x the freq of BCLK.  All timing in the 
timing tables is derived from BCLK.

Many of the instructions are executed in 1 cycle.  This is 1 BCLK cycle.
However, internally this is 2 PCLK cycles.  This allows the '040 to actually
execute 2 internal microcode instructions.

Although the chip is called a 25 MHz or 33 MHz chip, some internal calcs
are done using the PCLK so it can be considered a clock doubler.

The bottom line is that Moto does not call it a clock doubler.

Brad

P.S.  I work for Motorola, but I don't speak for them.  Everything I just
said is from the 68040 data book.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: msfuller@cc.utah.edu (MARC S. FULLER)
Subject: ATI soundboard
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Date: 26 Dec 1992 11:34 MST  

Does anybody have any experience with the ATI soundboard?  How compatible is it 
with other sound boards?

Thanks for your comments?

					Marc Fuller
					msfuller@cc.utah.edu									
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: sch2@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Stephen Hsieh)
Subject: Math coprocessor question - Use a 387-40 in a 386-33?
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 29 Dec 92 03:01:21 GMT

Is it okay to use a Cyrix 387-40 inside my 386-33?  I have a 33mhz and a 40
mhz computer at home, and I need the coprocessor in the 33mhz system right
now.  But I'm planning on moving the coprocessor to the 40mhz system in the
future.

Will I encounter any difficulties?  Are cyrix coprocessors a good brand?

Any info would be appreciated.

Steve
From: dont@klic.rain.com (Don taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Any way to leave ST506 drive connected but not spinning?
Date: 2 Jan 93 04:37:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: klic.1993Jan2.043750.26871
Distribution: na
Organization: KLIC

Is there any convenient way to leave a second ST506 drive attached to the same
cable as the first active drive but NOT need to keep it spinning?  In other
words, is there a way to not disconnect the second drive when it is not powered
up and still be able to use the first drive?

I am looking to have the second drive available for incremental backups at the
end of each day but I don't really want to keep it running all the time.

On a different subject, is there an archive anywhere that describes details of
old versions of BIOS roms?  I have one system with Award 3.05.?? that doesn't
show any method of extended setup in the setup menu and wonder if it is there
or not.

Please reply by email if possible.

Thanks
Don Taylor
503-235-6853
dont@klic.rain.com
dont@pdaxs.techbook.com
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From: gibsonst@sonoma.edu (Stephen Gibson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup,comp.windows.ms
Subject: re: MS-Windows + Fahrenheit 1280 + MAG MX17F = problems!
Date: 24 Dec 92 18:03:49 GMT
Reply-To: gibsonst@sonoma.edu
Organization: Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA


In article <1992Dec23.223357.24002@eskimo.com> johnn@eskimo.com (John Navitsky) writes:
>Hello,
>
>I recently got a Comtrade 486DX50/EISA with a Fahrenheit 1280 (1MB) and a
>MAGinnovision MX17F monitor.  I'm running MS-Windows 3.1 and the Fahrenheit
>windows drivers version 2.21 (at least that is Orchid Setup's version).
>Well, I want to use this beast in 1280x960x16 (or higher).  Well, this works
>(I'm using it now) and works fine except on the far right of the screen, which
>has problems with scrolling.  It appears after about (just guessing) 1024 on
>the horizontal axis, applications do not scroll correctly.  If you take a
>DOS window and set it on the left side, the left side (on the left of that
>magic boundry) it scrolls fine.  On the right, it does not display anything, or
>shows what was first brought up, or the background.  Basically, you can set
>things over there, but real, live, scrolling applications are unusable.
>
>Any thoughts?  I would sure like to use that area!
>
>Thanks!
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Here are a few ideas:

1.  I believe that you can program the MX17F to take the video settings you 
use.  Try to create YOUR OWN user settings for 1280x960 (check the MAG 
manual for more information).

2.  Contact Comtrade and make sure that they have sent you the proper video 
drivers for your Orchid card.  Stress their tech support to the MAX!!  Since 
mail order vendors are selling us this high resolution stuff, they should be 
our first line of support when there are problems.


Stephen Gibson
System Support Specialist
Sonoma State Universtiy
eMAIL:  gibsonst@sonoma.edu
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