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I would realy like to hear from someone that has one of these NANAO T560i monitors that is driving it with a Diamond SpeedStar 24x. With the 24x set up to run at its 58.1 khz 72.0hz output mode, and realy driving the hell out of the monitor. Just woundering if the NANAO T560i would fall apart with poor low capabilities like my (3) Sony 1604s did with the 24x driving their balls off...Sam
Carl Christensen (christen@astro.ocis.temple.edu) wrote: : This may be the dumbest question of the year, but is there a : way to 'piggyback' or expand a 6-slot motherboard (all 16-bit) : to get the usual 8?  My case has slots for 8, and I'd like to : get a scanner, but with all my other cards I'm already max'd out! : I'm hoping that a simple solution exists, e.g. an adapter that turns  I'm not sure if this will work, but how about using one of those 'T' expanders used in the low-profile cases.  They allow 3-5 slots staggered on either side of the card.  You can install it in the last slot, and then (probably)  have 2 or 3 sideways slots.  This is actually how it is done in the low profile cases - a standard motherboard, the 'T' connector in one slot,  and the expansion cards plugged into the 'T'.  I guess you could do this at  each end of the slots (1 & 8) to add even more.    The 'T' connectors are simply tracks with slots on them - no electronics on it.  The only downside - your case won't close, but for a homebrew system, that may not be a problem.  Don't know about performance, though.  I'll leave that discussion to the  engineers.
Excuse me to every one. I am an Amiga owner and tired to have the same graphic modes. So I saw on nn there was a little bridgeboard that made the Amiga's PC slots communicate with the stanndard Amiga's slot. The building mother house of this little gadget assure me that using this thing I can use all the pc boards included the SVGA cards. I am interested in computer graphics and I do not know many things about pc in general. So, what is the best (ISA slot) card on the market ? I'd like to reach resolutions like 1280x1024 with 256 colors or 800x600 with 24 bitplanes.  Any suggestion ??  thankyou in advance  Paolo Silvera -- Certified Commodore Amiga developer
Does anyone out there have at hand the phone or fax number for TECH POWER, who are a PC motherboard manufacturer (may be known as TECH POWER Enterprises).  Thannks in advance  - Chris
Hi, any body has experience with the Ultrastor UltraSCSI driver package? I also need the phone number for Ultrastor (it's not in the book) and i cannot find them in the company listing in Computer Shopper. Thanks in advance   tony kwong (908) 699-4130
I recently purchased the then current Pkg.# 486dx-33 for $2395 (but changed to NEC 3FGx monitor upgrade). Buy this Pkg. #3 now - for $100 more, you now get a bigger HD - 340mb with @256 HD cache. 30 days ago, when I bought this pkg., it was 245mb with @132K HD cache. This is a great deal although it is generally recommended you at least upgrade to the 15' Zeos (CTX) monitor for $99 more I believe.  Whether you also upgrade to the Diamond Viper video card is your choice. I stayed with the Diamond Speedstar Pro. Zeos Tech Support is really good - call after normal business hours to get the  fastest access. The hardest part about buying a Zeos is the wait till it is delivered - once you order you can hardly wait to get it! There are quite a few good mail order houses around - lots of bang for buck with Zeos.
Howdy,  Sorry if this has been covered before:  One of my PC illiterate friends asked me to help him install DRDOS 6.0 on his NEC Powermate SX (386SX 16).  Of course, I said "No problem" and went to work. Unfortunately, the DRDOS refuses to recognize the hard drive during  installation, even though I am still able to boot off of the hard drive using the old DOS.  After openning it up I discovered it was using an 8-bit  Seagate SCSI controller on a ST-157N SCSI 40Mbtye drive.  I then booted  with DRDOS 6.0 off of the floppy a second time and ran fdisk to see if  I could access the drive.  Lo and behold the primary 46.5 Mbyte partition  was intact (created by DOS 3.1 no less, I didn't think you could go over a 32Mbyte partition in the older DOSes. I could be wrong...).  I then tried  to remove the primary partition, which it wouldn't allow me to do.  I am  unaware of anything special that has to be done with a SCSI drive (I  kinda expected it to work just like an IDE/MFM/RLL drive for DOS  installations).  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated (except for  "Throw it in the garbage and buy a new PC")...  Thanks in advance,
Hi:  I need some advice (opinions?) regarding which PC would best suit my needs! I want to use this (proposed) beast for basically four things:         -	Editing documents using WordPerfect 5.1 (under dos)       -	Creating graphs/analyzing data using Sigmaplot V5.0 (under dos)       -	Editing/playing with images using Aldus PhotoStyler, running under  	Windows 3.1 - these images can be large, say 2k x 2k, 24bits/pixel       -	Using the PC as an Xterminal, running DesqView/X 1.1 and Sun PC-NFS,  	talking to our network of Sparcstation's - this is where a lot of 	the images/data come from, and is the most demanding of these tasks.  I've read, read, read PC magazines, performed benchmarks, read this newsgroup, and decided that a "nice" system (price/performance) would be:  	486DX-50 256k cache, ISA, VLB, 16meg ram 	ATI Graphics Ultra Pro, 2 meg ram, local bus 	15" monitor, 1280x1024 NI 	3Com Etherlink III 16bit 	Maxtor 240MB IDE hard drive  However, the parts don't fit!  Our local retailer apparently put one of these together, only to discover that the ATI card wouldn't run at 50MHz - surprise surprise.  Actually, after reading this group, I'm surprised that they even have a 50MHz local bus running...  I have a choice now between basically the above system but with a 486DX2-66 with ISA and VLB,  or,   a 486DX-50 with EISA and no VLB (and thus the non-local bus version of the ATI card).  Which is better, keeping in mind that I'm primarily interested in the last two tasks?    Any help would be greatly appreciated!  (I need to decide quickly, so any  speedy help would be appreciated even more!!)    BTW: We have a system now to perform these tasks, it has the following  configuration:  	486DX-33 64k cache, ISA, 8 meg ram 	ATI Graphics Ultra+, 2 meg ram 	14" monitor, 1024x768 NI 	SMC Ethercard 8 bit 	Maxtor 120MB IDE hard drive  We're quite happy with the ATI card - very fast, ONCE the data gets to it!! ~Slow~ repainting images under PhotoStyler that have moved off screen, or been uncovered!    There doesn't seem to be enough raw cpu when running DesqView/X!  Its sluggish running the local window manager.  Also, many functions under PhotoStyler take a long time (even when the images fit entirely in ram).  There's not enough memory in the system - DesqView/X and a 1 meg SmartDrive don't leave much room for other apps.  Photostyler will page to disk with medium size images.  I have performed a number of benchmarks on the ethernet transfer rates.  This machine sustains only 120k/sec over ethernet while our Sparcs sustain 600k/sec  on the same network.  Going to the 16 bit version of the SMC card increases transfer rates to 160k/sec - still very slow (especially when moving large  images).  Is there such a thing as a local-bus ethernet card coming??  Will it make a difference?  I'm hoping so, and leaning towards the 486DX2-66 choice  (above), for that reason.  Also, are there DX2-100's on the horizon?  What about DX3-99's?  DX3-150's ???!  Any information is greatly appreciated.
OK..... thanks to all of you who responded to my post. here's the "official" response from orchid.. Orchid is aware of the problem, the new rev of the board (rev d) SHOULD         (not would) take care of the problem. production was scheduled to start on april 15, I have no confirmation that production did start on this day just the word of the tech on the other line.  now the flame...... you would think a company like Orchid who has produced good quality products in the past would be more helpfull and willing to make right on a screwup of theirs.  very poor tech support (the first 2 times I called I must have spoke with the janitor because they where talking craziness) the last time I talked to a tech  named "paul" and he seemed to have a pretty good idea what was going on. until these problems are resovled neither myself nor my department will buy or recommend orchid products.  flame off.....  again thanks to all of you who answered my post.
In article <C5GEH5.n1D@utdallas.edu> goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL) writes:  >Oh yeah, I just read in another newsgroup that the T560i uses a high quality >Trinitron tube than is in most monitors.(the Sony 1604S for example) and this >is where the extra cost comes from.  It is also where the high bandwidth >comes from, and the fantastic image, and the large image size, etc, etc...  I agree that the image is as sharp as it gets with these SONY tubes, however in the 17" monitors using these tubes, the 2 annoying black lines on the top and bottom quarters of the tube, which are created due to the wires holding up the Invar Shadow Mask, are quite annoying after a while.  That is the only thing that is making me lean more in favor of the NEC 5FG (or now also available the NEC 5FGe - only difference, no ACCUCOLOR ).  Any experiences or opinions from people who have used the NEC 5FG would be appreciated since I want to get one right after my exams are all done (ie: about a week from now).  -Tony
I posted almost the same bad experience with  Midwest Micro but our %^*^&*^&* news program only sent one paragraph out of the middle. In addition to the facts that: (a) the modems (I had ordered two) wouldn't work as documented and (b) the tech person had NO CLUE as to how it should work, it also turned out that: (c) one of the two modems they sent was clearly USED but the techs thought that was standard practice and (d) the modems made all three of my floppy drives quit working and my CMS250 tape drive start running away.  That they are incompetent is one thing, but that they sell used stuff as new and won't even apologize for it is another. Stay away from these crooks!
In article <kehchengC5w75x.F7o@netcom.com> kehcheng@netcom.com (Keh-Cheng Chu) writes: >In article <C5uw1t.3HI@eskimo.com> johnn@eskimo.com (John Navitsky) writes: >> >>I would like a monitor that can handle high resolutions like 1024x1024 NI. >>I want a high resolution versital monitor.  This monitor need not be large >>(=>17") if it meets the brief requirements as outlined above.  I've been >>very happy with a 16" on Suns and could probably cope with smaller at home. >> >>I'm interested if anyone has more details on high quality Sony and Hitatchi >>monitors since they seem to be used on Sun's fairly often and look pretty >>good (to me at least).  I haven't seem them brought up in c.s.i.p.h very >>often as are Mag and Viewsonic. >> >Give the new Viewsonic 17 a good look.  I have seen it side by side with >an old Viewsonic 7, a MAG 17, a Nanao 17" (not the Trinitron one), and >a Sony OEM 17" (which does have a Trinitron tube).  The new Viewsonic >beat all of them easily in terms of picture quality, and I think it is >far superior to the 16" Sun that I am staring at now.  The place asks >$1178 for it; I would have bought it if I had not just bought a 15" >Nanao F340iw a week earlier :( > >Keh-Cheng  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.
I have an 8-bit serial card with two ports.  Each port has the option of using IRQ 2,3,4 or 5.  I also have two serial ports on a multi-I/O card, and the ports can be set to IRQ 3,4,5,7 or 9.  From other posts I've read, I get the impression that IRQ2 on the 8-bit card is the same as IRQ9 on the multi-I/O card.  Am I right?
I have an internal modem that I configure as COM4 with IRQ 3, but when I insert that card into my DOS 5.02 PC, it shows up as COM3, with IRQ3 and COM4's address (2E8)!  When I get into debug, and dump the data at 40:0, it shows the address 2E8 as belonging to COM3 - even though the modem should be at COM4.  Now, I know the modem is working correctly since I have tested it in a different PC - and it shows up correctly as COM4, 2E8, IRQ3.  To make it work in the DOS 5.02 PC, I have to configure the modem as COM3, 2E8, IRQ3---but though I have a comm program that allows that, the FAX program that came with the modem does not work. Anyway, I would like the computer to display the modem as it is set, as COM4... I did run a few diagnostic programs, and they did not help at all: a few displayed the modem as COM4, and others displayed it as being COM3.  I am not using Windows, this is just a DOS problem...Any help or pointers appreciated.... For various reasons, I must have this modem work at COM4, thus switching COM ports is not an answer...  (Last time I posted this, I did not get any DOS specific answer, this time I have included all the specific information....please help!)  ----- Avinash Chopde avinash@acm.org
I just ordered my 4DX2-66V system from Gateway.  Thanks for all the net discussions which helped me decide among all the vendors and options.  Right now, the 4DX2-66V system includes 16MB of RAM.  The 8MB upgrade used to cost an additional $340.
Hello,  I am looking for a PC card with the following features:    - Controller for IDE(AT-Bus)-HardDiskDrive   - Controller for 2 FloppyDiskDrives   - Standard(256KB) VGA Graphics  INCLUDING FEATURE CONNECTOR (important!)                                   ===========================  There *are* some manufacturors/distributors of this kind of card, but I have not found them yet.  If you can help me, please mail to:  ICH344@DJUKFA11                                      ICH344@zam001.zam.kfa-juelich.de
da416@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Andy Nicola) writes:  {>  {> In a previous article, cs3sd3ae@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Holly       KS) says: {>  {> >What is the difference between the US Robotics Courier v32bis external and t {> >Sportster 14400 external? I see that the price of a Sportster has dramatical {> >dropped to below $200 but the price of the Courier remains above $400. {> > {> >Anyone with knowledge of both of these modems or anyone that owns a Courier? {>  {> The Sportster at 14.4 has v.42 error control and v.42 bis data compression. {> This is becoming standard on all these high speed modems.  The difference {> with the Courier, is that it can run at 16.8 and only in the HST mode.   The courrier will not run at 16800 only the Dual Standard HST (the USR modem over $600)  my courrier will do up to 14,400 and with compression error correction, much more. it will do v.32 v.32bis v.42 v.42bis v.22 etc. etc and ASL too. (whatever asl is)                                                         -David  =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
msmith@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (Mark Smith) writes:  > I'm thinking about getting a Toshiba 3401 CD-ROM and hooking it up > through the SCSI port on a Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum sound board. > Does anybody have this configuration out there?  If so, does it work? >  > For anybody in general who has the Toshiba 3401 CD-ROM drive, have you > had any hadware problems?  Door not opening, scratched disks, door not > closing (getting stuck or not closing all the way), CD holder jamming > and any other CD related problems.  	I have one and it is my favorite CD-ROM drive so far.  I also have  a NEC-74 and have had experience with several other drives (Various  Phillips drives)  	The 3401 is faster than the NEC, I like its door better (the NEC  needs 2 hands), the XA handling (The NEC needs to be re-booted to go from  XA to ROM while the 3401 does it on the fly), All in all I am seriously  considering replacing my NEC with another Toshiba.
Many (all?) XT drive controllers have their own BIOS on board to handle low- level formatting.  The BIOS also allows you to set up the drive properly (# of cylinders/heads/etc).
My computer won't recognise my disk after a reboot (Windows crash - Grrr!!) Are there any options to restore everything, without losing data?    The drive previously had 3 partitions, but I do not remember the exact settings.  I have copies of the boot data from the disk (PC-tools rescue disk).  I do not want to lose my data - 340MB IDE drive.  Do I have any options?   --
You unfortunately failed to mention if the error occurs with the Parity Error Checking enabled or disabled.  I assume you mean it gives you a parity error when it's enabled, and not when it's disabled.  How high will the count go on the memory check at boot-up before this error occurs?  Does the system beep at all; if so what's the pattern of beeps?  The error could be occuring in Cache memory (not so likely) or video memory, as well as the simms.  The fact that you have AMI bios is not conclusive in determining the board manufacturer either.  Boards are made by thousands of small Taiwanese companies (among others) that buy the name brand chips and put them together with some simm sockets to make your board.  I tend to doubt your problem is with your IDE controller, also.  Anyway, perhaps if you answer those questions someone can help you out better.
Since the net has convinced me not to try FastMicro (if they were still answering their phones) does anybody have any opinions on Micron Computer, Inc?  Their 486VL Magnum got an Editors Choice in the Jan 26th roundup of 486/66s.  Email and I'll sumarize.
My brother is in the market for a high-performance video card that supports VESA local bus with 1-2MB RAM.  Does anyone have suggestions/ideas on:    - Diamond Stealth Pro Local Bus    - Orchid Farenheit 1280    - ATI Graphics Ultra Pro    - Any other high-performance VLB card   Please post or email.  Thank you!    - Matt
In article <C5FoMu.267o@austin.ibm.com>, larryhow@austin.ibm.com writes: >  > How stable are the build 59 drivers?  Are people having success installing > and running with these? >        I've been using the Build59 drivers on a GW2K 4DX2-66V for several weeks with no problems. I'm running Windows in 1024x758 and all software I've run has worked fine. This includes many games and the CD-based  multi-media encyclopedia, on which the full-motion video works fine. I'd recommend you give them a try.   -- John
I read about the development of EISA-2 some time ago but dismissed it in light of the intense interest in VESA and PCI.  However, I recently was disheartened to hear that ISA cannot address more than 16mb of RAM, a limit that too many of us will hit all too soon.  I recall that EISA-2 will support 64-bit transfer among other enhancements. Is there such a standard being developed?
I got a ET4000/W32 card which is made by Cardex yesterday and ran a winmark test on it. The card is a VL-BUS card which can display 16.7 million colours in 640x480 mode with 1MB DRAM.  It comes with ET4000/W32 window drivers and a normal Et4000 drivers. The ET4000/W32 drivers handles, 640x480, 800x600, 1024x786 in 256 colours. Also, in 640x480 and 800x600, it supports hicolor, 32K and 64K colours.  Here is my winmark result running on a 16MB 486DX33 EISA/VL-BUS system using Hint chipsets.  Winmark 3.11 from ZD lab.  Using ET4000/W32 drivers 640x480 256       10.63 megapixel/sec.         32k        7.34          64k        7.30 800x600 256       10.07         32k        6.38         64k        6.35 1kx786  256        8.17  Using ET4000 drivers. 640x480 16M        1.78 800x600  16colours 4.01      1kx786   16        4.22  From the result, the ET4000/W32 drivers are specialized to use the hardware feature of the Et4000/W32 chip whereas the ET4000 drivers are just normal driver for ET4000 based graphics card.  The price of this graphics card that I got is $185 from a local dealer. It may be less from mail order. It has OS/2 2.0 drivers comes with it which supports 256 colors on all resolution.  From these results, it has double the performance of a Et4000AX based card in 256 colours mode.
imj1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Imad M Jureidini) writes:  >Hi! >	I recently purchased the Toshiba 3401 CDROM.  I own an Adaptec 1542B >SCSI card, and I have so far failed to get the CDROM to work under DOS.  It >works very well under OS/2, so I know that the drive is not faulty. >In my config.sys, I have aspi3dos.sys, aspidisk.sys, aspicd.sys.  In my  >autoexec.bat, I have MSCDEX, which came with DOS 6.0.  MSCDEX seems to find >and install the drive as drive F:, but when I switch to that drive and try a >dir, I get an error message telling me the drive is not ready or something >like that.  The CDROM is locked too, and the adaptec utilities don't seem to >recognize that I have a CDROM at that point.   The current Adaptec drivers do not support the Toshiba 3401.  you should get the Corel SCSI drivers, which do support it.  This is the method that I used, and it works well.  Corel's phone number is 1(613) 728-3733  Just a satisfied user.    JB
In article <C5sHLJ.ErE@trc.amoco.com> zrdf01@trc.amoco.com (Rusty Foreman) writes:     Has anyone taken a look at the new ViewSonic 17? They claim    1280x1024 at 76Hz.  How does it compare with the T560i in terms of    price, and quality of display?  I'm interested in the new ViewSonic 17 as well.  Has anyone seen one of these monitors in the flesh?
Hi,  I have the following problem: I have to use a computer for special purposes that doesn't have a monitor and keyboard connected. No monitor isn't a  program - but no keyboard. I can't disable the keyboard from BIOS setup (in fact, there is no setup). I spoke to someone who said that he had fooled the BIOS with simply using a self-made connector that connects two pins via a resistor. Pity, pity... I lost contact to the person before getting more detail. So does anyone of you experts can help?  Thanks for any hints, even vague ones :-)  Thomas
I was wondering if anyone out there has had the same problem I am having with my Gateway 2000 486-33DX VL-Bus system with ATI Graphics Ultra Pro LB.   When I have my computer in any resolution other than 800x600, everything is fine, but whenever I use it in 800x600 (Windows, AutoCAD, GIFs) the screen  gets about 1 1/2 inches shorter.  At the very top and very bottom of the screen there is about a 3/4" bar of black.  The screen isn't cut off, it just squeezes everything into the smaller space and messes up the aspect ratio.  While I can manually change the V-Size on the back, this is a pain in the ass, and it just shouldn't happen anyway.  I've called Gateway numerous times and they haven't  been able to help me at all.  Two different times they sent me a new card, and both times the new card didn't work at all in my computer.  They even tried to bill me for the first card because they didn't get it back in a couple of days, when they TOLD me over the phone that they would wait more than 2 weeks before billing my card.  But their customer support is a different story... So, if anyone has had this same problem, please let me know if you know what to do.  Hell, let me know if you don't have a solution, just so I know I'm not the only one with this problem.  Thanks in advance.  Jude M. Greer jmgree01@starbase.spd.louisville.edu
I just installed a DX2-66 CPU in a clone motherboard, and tried mounting a CPU  cooler on the chip.  After about 1/2 hour, the weight of the cooler was enough  to dislodge the CPU from its mount.  It ended up bending a few pins on the CPU, but luckily the power was not on yet.  I ended up pressing the CPU deeply into its socket and then putting the CPU cooler back on.  So far so good.  Have others had this problem?  How do you ensure that the weight of the CPU fan and heatsink do not eventually work the CPU out of its socket when mounting the motherboard in a vertical case?