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While playing around with my Gateway 2000 local-bus machine last night, it became apparent that Windows 3.1 didn't give the option for 32-bit access for virtual memory.  I am using a permanent swap file, and the disk drive is on the local bus interface.  Is this expected, or should I be investigating further why no 32-bit option appears?  Thanks for any help.  --
I am unable to get my Gateway 486DX2/66 to run Windows in 1280x1024.  I ordered a 2M ATI Ultra Pro, and I'm pretty sure the 2M is really there because I *can* select 1024x768x65536.   But no matter what I do with the Flex program in the ATI's program group, 1280x1024 remains ghosted out. I have Windows 3.1, build 59 of the drivers, DOS 5.0.  The drivers were installed by Gateway, not by me, so perhaps there's a file missing from the hard drive.  It runs 1024x768 just fine.   I did go into the Desktop window and select 1280x1024.  Sometimes it refuses (ghosted out), other time it accepts it, but when I hit OK and re-enter Desktop, it's back to 1024x768.  At no time does it unghost 1280x1024 in the main Flex window.  Help!
Just to let all you faithful Mitsumi CD Rom owners....  Ever notice QEMM can't load you CD Rom driver high?  Ain't it a bitch?  Well, you can call up Quarterdeck's BBS and get a hold of the new drivers that CAN be loaded high.  Sorry , I don't have their # on me. :-(  I tested them out and the seem to work great!
Recently, I have been getting a CMOS Checksum error when I first turn on my computer.  It doesn't happen everytime I turn it on, nor can I predict when it is going to happen.  I have an AMI BIOS and all of the setting are lost, for example the drive types and the password options.  However, the date and time remain correct.  If anyone knows what can be causing this, please let me know.
Cyrix have released a 386 pin-conpatible 486 clone. Designed to upgrade old 16 & 20MHz 386's the chips are also clockdoubling. Thus a 16MHz 386 can be transformed into a 32MHz 486, with a single chip upgrade.  Unfortunately in Australia the DRu2 sells for $700A (16MHz) and $1000A (20MHz), about 1.5x the price of a 486dx33 motherboard with two vlb slots!!!  How much do these thing cost in the States? How well do they work?  Thanks for any info,
Due to the large amount of request for 3dbench of ET4000/W32, I finally can get a 3dbench v1.0 from a ftp site.  The 3dbench of ET4000/W32 in my Cardex W32 card with 1MB DRAM has superscape benchmark of 26.3 frames/sec.  Hope it will satisfy people curiosity of this ET4000/W32 performance. What other benchmark program result you would want to know? 8-)
scanlonm@rimail.interlan.com (Michael Scanlon) writes:  >I don't know if this is an obvious question, but can any of the current  >batch of windows accelerator cards (diamond etc) be used to drive a monitor  >which has RGB and horizontal and vertical sync ( 5 BNC jacks altogether)  >connectors out the back??  I might be able to get ahold of a Raster  >Technologies 17" monitor (1510 ??)cheap and I was wondering if it was  >possible to connect it via an adapter (RGB to vga ??) to my Gateway, would  >I need different drivers etc.     >Thanks  >Mike Scanlon  >please reply to scanlon@interlan.com
I started a similar thread about a month ago, and got many replies. The summary:  CTX 14": Nasty, low quality. Avoid.  CTX 15" Proscan: Not as good as some other makes; however, cheap.   Main problem seems poor quality control. Some reported pincushioning   (the problem I had), others poor focus, etc, etc.  I complained about mine and it was 're-tuned' (I dodn't even pay shipping) and returned to me in 2 days.   It's now clear, well-focussed and has no pincushioning or barrel distortion at all. I'm very happy with it, and the digital controls and mode memory are nice. Certainly, a Trinitron (say) would be much nicer, but that's well out of my price range.  Conclusion: If you're on a budget, get one and be prepared to send it back if it's not perfect. It probably won't be when you get it, but has good potential.
In article <im14u2c.735176900@camelot> im14u2c@camelot.bradley.edu (Joe Zbiciak) writes: >What's the word on the chipset?  Is this a ROM bug specific  >to a specific brand using the Rockwell, or is it the Rockwell >chipset itself?  There were an assortment of firmware problems, but that is pretty much expected with any FAX/modem talking with a different FAX or modem which may have also been revised or is new.  I'm pretty much oblivious to any current firmware problems, so you'll have to get it from someone else.  However, I can tell you to stay clear of any board which uses the Rockwell MPU (as opposed to the DPU) for an internal implementation. This is because the MPU used "speed buffering" instead of having a 16550 interface.  Without the 550 interface, the number of interrupts are still the same and thus may get dropped under multitasking conditions (like in windows).  As far as I know, the "speed buffering" works OK for external modems if a 550 is used on the internal serial port board.  Hope this helps... Tom
> 2) Anyone using this cpu, what is your impressions of the cpu performance, >   compatability?     There is a benchmark program called COMPTEST said CYRIX CPUs have a bug so they cannot run the program. Also may be NeXTSTEP 486?  						regards,
I recently installed dos 5.0 on a few machines, and the users  claim that when they use the mouse often, the screen will blank, and the machine will lock up.  There are no viruses, they are not running any TSR's. (the mouse is a logitec 2 button)  Anybody got any ideas?  thanks
Has anybody ever heard of Hawk EISA/VLB motherboards?  NET Computers International (from Computer Shopper) has the 486/33 version w/256k cache for $559.  I'm trying to decide between this motherboard and the NICE motherboard.  Thanks!    PS:  The Hawk motherboard has 3 EISA slots, two of which are VLB.  The spec sounds identical to the Nice.
I hope that there's somebody out there that can help us.  Some of our students change the AMI bios passwords on a few of our computers  and set it for always. What we'd like to know is if there is a way to bypass  or remove the password. We have tried switching bios, but to no avail. The  battery is soldered to the bord, an all three machines is still under  guarentee so if that would have help we can't remove the batteries.  Thanks Isak Isak Venter                          ITBIJV@PUKNET.PUK.AC.ZA
Bruce Maynard (drac@uumeme.chi.il.us) wrote: > In article <93083.215554MAL112@psuvm.psu.edu> Mitch Lewars <MAL112@psuvm.psu.edu> writes: > >Can someone give me the specs > >on a null modem cable, I ferget > >which get crossed.... =-) > >    mal112@psuvm.psu.edu  > That's an easy one... carry all 25 pins straight thru, with the exception of > pins 2 & 3, which should be crossed...  as someone else already mentioned, don't "carry thru" the other 23 pins.  plan A, minimal null modem: 	SG(7)   -  SG(7) 	TD(2)   -  RD(3) 	RD(3)   -  TD(2) if you're transfering files betwen 2 PCs, this ought to work (unless you have a persnickity comm program).  plan B, null modem with modem control: 	SG(7)   -  SG(7) 	TD(2)   -  RD(3) 	RD(3)   -  TD(2) 	DCD(8)  -  DTR(20) 	DTR(20) -  DCD(8) some comm software will wait for DCD before transferring anything. such software will raise DTR to enable the modem to accept a call. with this cable, each side's DTR will drive the other's DCD.  plan C, null modem with hardware flow control: 	SG(7)   -  SG(7) 	TD(2)   -  RD(3) 	RD(3)   -  TD(2) 	RTS(4)  -  CTS(5) 	CTS(5)  -  RTS(4) for high-speed transfers, you want the flow control.  plan D, deluxe null modem (combine B and C): 	SG(7)   -  SG(7) 	TD(2)   -  RD(3) 	RD(3)   -  TD(2) 	RTS(4)  -  CTS(5) 	CTS(5)  -  RTS(4) 	DCD(8)  -  DTR(20) 	DTR(20) -  DCD(8) this one is ideal.  it leaves out DSR and RI (rarely used anymore). if you're really paranoid, or you just have an 8th wire to spend, you might add: 	FG(1)   -  FG(1)  the pin numbers above are (obviously) for 25-pin connectors. i don't have a 9-pin pinout handy.
djweisbe@unix.amherst.edu (David Weisberger) writes:  >I have a 5 1/4" drive as drive A.  How can I make the system boot from >my 3 1/2" B drive?  (Optimally, the computer would be able to boot >from either A or B, checking them in order for a bootable disk.  But >if I have to switch cables around and simply switch the drives so that >it can't boot 5 1/4" disks, that's OK.  Also, boot_b won't do the trick >for me.)
I'm trying to get in touch with Mitsumi - anyone have their number?  --   --------------------------------------------------------------------------  ---  ---    Frank Pikelner                                          /~\  \    \  \   Technical Assistant, Department of Computer Science    <v.v>   \-   \--   York University (Toronto, Canada)                      ,\^/;    \    \    Internet: frank@cs.yorku.ca                            _{!}_
I have a Headland Technologies Video Seven VRAMII board that only came with 512K, at the time this was ok but...  I need info or help with upgrading this board to 1 Mbyte.  There are 2 rows of pins over the VRAM chips, I think for a piggyback board of VRAM.  I would like to hear from anyone that may be able to help me upgrade this board.  Maybe someone from Headland who maybe read- ing this has one of these piggyback boards just laying around, please please please!  Does anyone know of where I could maybe buy the upgrade for this?  I would sure love to use this in 800X600-256 color mode but for the time being, I can only get 3/4 of the screen with the bottom part a white strip, obviously because of the missing VRAM, actually I'm surprised it even works to this degree at all!
Howdy, Netlanders:  Can you put an ISA card into an EISA slot?  Also, can you put a 8-bit PC card in an ISA  slot?  Please e-mail if possible,  Thanks ahead of time,
Tigger (djohnson@moose.uvm.edu) wrote: : Hi! : 	 : Is it possible through either pin configuration or through software : programming to change the IP numbers on an ethernet card? : 	 : Thanks in Advance! :  : --  : =-Dave   *Tigger!* :  : djohnson@moose.uvm.edu        'Tiggers are wonderful things!' : Dave C Johnson  I think you mean the ethernet numbers.  The 8 byte ethernet id is the unique Electronic Serial Number (ESN) assigned to each ethernet board in existence. This is a "physical layer" concept.  The IP address is a higher layer protocol. The analogy to telephone service is the IP address is your phone number, while the particular wire pair in the cable on the pole has some (unknown to you or I) physical identification scheme (number).  But to answer your question (assuming you indeed meant the Ethernet number) it is not supposed to be possible to change the number.  Of course the manufacturer can always retro-fit a board, but there could hardly be a reason to ever do that.  If your question is actually referring to the IP address, it is most definetly changable.  But it is strictly software.
Hello,  I already tried our national news group without success.  I tried to replace a friend's original IBM floppy disk in his PS/1-PC with a normal TEAC drive. I already identified the power supply on pins 3 (5V) and 6 (12V), shorted pin 6 (5.25"/3.5" switch) and inserted pullup resistors (2K2) on pins 8, 26, 28, 30, and 34. The computer doesn't complain about a missing FD, but the FD's light stays on all the time. The drive spins up o.k. when I insert a disk, but I can't access it. The TEAC works fine in a normal PC.  Are there any points I missed?  Thank you. 	Volkmar
Adrie Koolen (adrie@ica.philips.nl) wrote: : In article <C5wKx1.Frv@news.iastate.edu> schauf@iastate.edu (Brian J Schaufenbuel) writes: : >What tube does the Viewsonic 17 use?  Does is support 1600x1280?  I've been : >looking a a Philips 1762DT which uses a Sony Trinitron tube, has digital : >controls, supports up to 1280x1024NI, and has .25mm dot pitch - It can be : >found for under $1000.  : The original poster, John Navitsky, said that he might use the monitor on : a SparcStation LX. The LX is able to generate a picture at 1280*1024 at : 76 Hz. Not officially, but I tried to set this resolution and refresh rate : and the LX came up with a non-syncing screen. Our tube obviously couldn't : handle this speed. At 67 Hz, it worked perfectly.  I don't know which tube the Viewsonic 17 uses, but it has an 82khz horizontal bandwidth so you can go pretty high.  I ran mine at 1280x1024x75 which was as fast as the Orchid P9000 could drive it.  Also, the 17 does claim to be able to support 1600x1280, but I have no experience with that.  Since I have the spec sheet in front of me I'll type some in:  CRT:	17", 0.28 mm dot pitch, 90 deg deflection, RGB mediou short 	persisance, Tint (TM=52%), anti-static, anti-glare, anti-reflection  Input Signal:  RGB Analog 0.7Vp-p, 75 ohms (also has setting for 1Vp-p) 	Sync: H/V Separate(ttl), composite (+/-), sync on green (+/-) 	horizontal freq: 30-82Khz, vertical freq: 50-90Hz compatibility: PC from VGA to 1600x1280 non-interlaced, mac IIci and above controls: contrast, brightness, position, size, degauss, p-p voltage, color 	temp, sync select, color tuning, moire on/off. video band witdth: 135 MHz Max brightness: 120 cd/m2 at white flat field misconvergence: .35mm (max) at center, .45mm (max) at corner dimensions: 16.3"x16.22"x17.64", weight 42.6 lbs  I don't know what some of those mean and don't verify their accuracy, I just  typed them in.  Other things they hype on the sheet are a 'double quaduple dynamic astigmatism focus'.  Right.  They mean they use two lenses.  Advanced Invar shadow mask.  ViewMatch color control which they claim is and easy-to-use system that adjusts colors to closely match printer output.  As near as I have been able to figure out, this translates to separate controls for red, green, and blue.  How this makes it easy to match for printer output is beyond me.  But beyond the hype, the monitor is very pleasant to look at.  Sharp, clear, and isn't nearly as bad as the NEC's for reflections.
A silly question: I frequently edit small files and need to make copies of them on several floppy diskettes of the same size and format, but my computer is only equipped with one 3.5" HD drive and one 5.25" HD drive; can't I do the copying without swapping files temporarily to my hard disk (which is 99.9% full) using standard MSDOS 5.0 commands? I know diskcopy a: a: works but for small selections of files, xcopy a:*.txt a: does not! Maybe I'll have to write my own file copy command in C, but the idea does not amuse me. Thanks for your help.
mikey@sgi.com (Mike Yang) writes:  >In article <1qslfs$bm1@access.digex.net> rash@access.digex.com (Wayne Rash) writes: >>I also reviewed a new Nanao, the F550iW, which has just >>been released.  >What's the difference between the F550i and the new F550iW?  I'm >about to buy a Gateway system and was going to take the F550i >upgrade.  Should I get the F550iW instead?  >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >                 Mike Yang        Silicon Graphics, Inc. >               mikey@sgi.com           415/390-1786  The F550iW is optimized for Windows.  It powers down when the screen blanker appears, it powers down with you turn your computer off, and it meets all of the Swedish standards.  It's also protected against  EMI from adjacent monitors.
I am looking for a monitor 17" or larger that could do 1024x748 	with and 8514/A card (PS2/70)  	I guess I would prefere 19" and MONO (later becuase of lower price)  	Please email me the brand, model, condition and asking price...
In article <1993Apr21.005911.8032@ncar.ucar.edu> fredrick@acd.ucar.edu (Timothy Fredrick) writes: > >I am looking for information on how to install a 5.25" floppy as Drive >A:, a 3.25" floppy as drive B:, a twisted cable (with the twist between >the two floppy connectors), and a controller.  For example, should both >drives have drive select=1?   Depends on the FDC but generally No.  The drive at the end after the twist  should be set as Drive 0 >What about the terminating resistor pack that's in the 5.25" floppy?   >Which connector should go into which drive? Since you're using the 5.25 as drive A: it should be at the end after the  twist with the resistor pack fitted. >Does pin-0 on the connector always correspond with pin-0 on the floppy >drive? Yes > Stuff deleted  Hope this helps.  I had exactly the same problems.  Unfortunately when I changed to different machine the problems started again because of a different FDC.  Seems (don't flame me, this is mainly guess work from practicle experience) that some FDC's do different things with the  select.
What's the difference between loading mouse.com in autoexec.bat and doing device=mouse.sys in config.sys??  which one is better?  Thanks a lot
Hi 	I have an Orchid Fahrenheit VLB with 2MB of DRAM.  It is an S3 86c805 based card.  I had a problem for a while after installing my second meg of DRAM for the video, and thanks to Orchid, I got a fix from their tech support (it was jumper settings not given in the ordinary manual.  I assume it would come with memory ordered from them, so I guess I should be glad they didn't just say "Buy the memory from us" or something like that.)  	The one thing that I was puzzled by was why there was not a 1024x768x32k color mode on the thing, either in full screen or enlarged desktop mode.  My ATI Ultra Plus can handle that, given 2MB of memory.  All the 2MB buys you on the Fahrenheit is 1280x1024x256. Just ONE more mode.  GEEZ.  Had I known, I wouldn't have bothered.  I asked them why, and all I got was "Your point is well taken, but Orchid's software developers are busy with other projects."  	So, to get to the point, finally, ARE there any s3 86c805 drivers out there that can handle high res hicolor modes?  I'd love to get another card, but perhaps it will have to wait until the next generation of cards comes out, since this card came bundled with my system and it's not so easy to exchange these things unless they're broken.  	If you want these modes, steer away from Orchids s3 86c805 cards (ie. VLB or VA/VLB), at least until their developers are "less busy".  If the magazines are to believed, I've only seen one s3 86c805 product thus far which can handle 1024x768x32k color (Genoa?), although evenn that might be a misprint.  	Please, if there are generic or semi-generic drivers out there, let me know where I can get them.  800x600x32k is OK, but I coulda gotten that with my ATI VGA Wonder XL.
Where is the best place to find classified type ads for used PC's?  Several other computer makes have their own ".wanted" sections on the  Usenet. What about PC's and compatibles? Where's the cheapest place  nationally to buy used PC systems and laptops?
Hi All,    I have heard that somewhere there exist programmable keyboards, eg. one can program displays on the keys to show some specific characters, et.c.   Does it mean that there is some way of transmitting some "non-trivial" data to the KB (as opposed to standard NumLock/... On-Off, typeamatic specs.) from inside the PC software? I have not found any corresponding reference in the specs for the 8042 PC-KB interface. Anyone have any ideas? (Except that they may encode data by the sequences of the standard commands mentioned above, which wouldn't look too neat, besides, what would one do from an XT?)    Great thanks in advance,
I'm looking into getting an external, reasonably fast (<350 ms avg access time) Multispin CD-ROM drive that supports "Photo CD Multi Session", has audio output, and SCSI interface for connection to the PAS16 SCSI port. Does anyone have any comments/experiences/warnings/recommendations they'd like to share concerning the Texel DM-5024 and/or Toshiba TXM-3401E and/or others. THANKS!
This might be a silly question but I have to ask it anyway. I am in the process of purchasing an EISA/VL Bus 486 DX2-66 computer and I found two places that sell machines that have what I want and have the same price. The first is Ares and they use a Cache motherboard (that's the brand of the motherboard) with OPTI chip set, the other is Micron (formerly Edge Technology) and they use the Micronics EISA/VLB motherboard.  I said that this might be a silly question since I believe that Micronics is a very well known motherboard manufacturer while I never heard of Cache! I am however leaning towards the Ares machine because my impression is that they are known for building good, solid machines and they have good tech support (24 hr, 7 days/wk), and a better warrantee (2 years).  Micron, on the other hand, seems to have recently aquired Edge Technologies and I'm not sure how much I should trust the company.  I would REALLY appreciate any input on this. Is the Micron machine the clear choice?  Does anyone know anything positive or negative about either company? Has anyone ever heard of Cache motherboards? Should I go with Micron just because it has the Micronics motherboard? etc.  Thanks very much in advance for any information.
rbrown@spchp21.BBN.COM (Ralph Brown) writes:  >I've yet to hear from someone running a 34F on any motherboard with >NT without shutting off the cache.  Consider it heard!  AMI Enterprise III EISA/VLB w/ UltraStor 34F --   =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes: >wayne@amtower.spacecoast.org writes:  >IDE also uses DMA techniques.  I believe floppy controller also uses DMA, >and most A/D boards also use DMA.  DMA is no big deal, and has nothing to >do directly with SCSI.  No.  The simple $25 style IDE controller does not use DMA.  The CPU performs the data transfer with a string move instruction.  This requires that the CPU stop what it had been doing and transfer the data.  Only the smart drive controllers, be they IDE or SCSI, can transfer via DMA.  These controllers tend to cost the same wether they are IDE or SCSI.  To get the DMA benefits, IDE must sacrifice it's price advantage *on the controller*.  >> For example, when rewinding or formatting a tape, the command is >>issued to the controller and the bus is released to allow access to other >>devices on the bus.  This greatly increases productivity or, at least, do >>something else while backing up your hard drive :-).  Which happens to be >>what I am doing while reading this group.  >You can thank your software for that.  If DOS had a few more brains, it >could format floppies etc. while you were doing something else.  The >hardware will support it, but DOS (at least) won't.  Again, this has    >nothing to do with SCSI.  Floppies aren't on the IDE bus, your arguement makes no sense, this isn't an IDE issue.  The floppys have their own processor on their controller board which handles all of these commands.  The difference between IDE and SCSI is that all SCSI peripherials are intelligent.  They each have their own controller.  They depend on the CPU to do fewer things for them, i.e. IDE drives needing a processor to transfer their data.  >>Its a long story, but I still use IDE on my 486 except for the CDROM which, >>thanks to SCSI, I can move between both machines.  If, and when, SCSI is >>better standardized and supported on the ibm-clone machines, I plan to >>completely get rid of IDE.  >And if you stick with DOS you'll wonder why you can't multitask.  >Again I ask why can't a UNIX or OS/2 type OS do all the miraculous things >with an IDE harddrive that it can with a (single) SCSI hard drive.  The dettach/callback mechanism alows the CPU to make requests of the  devices on the SCSI bus and then dettach and go about its business. Later, when the device is done, it issues a callback to say that the data has arrived or the function has completed.  Most SCSI cards will also DMA the data into memory without the interupting the CPU, therefore allowing it to continue working uninterupted.  IDE supports no such concept as dettach/callback.    Can you see how this would be a win in any multitasking system?  --David Willmore  --  --------------------------------------------------------------------------- willmore@iastate.edu | "Death before dishonor" | "Better dead than greek" |  David Willmore  | "Ever noticed how much they look like orchids? Lovely!" |
What's the difference between a 16550 UART and a 16550A UART? Thanks!