waashk/20ng huggingface dataset:
I saw the following computer in a store and wanted to know if this is a good computer or does someone see something wrong with it.  I also would like to switch the motherboard later when this computer becomes too slow.  Does anyone know if this is possible with a Leading Edge Computer, or will it be difficult to find a motherboard that will fit in this computer.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.        Leading Edge- Model PC4170E        * Intel 486SX/25 Mhz CPU       * Supports Intel OverDrive clock-Doubling Processors(What is this?)       * Upgradable to 486DX2/66       * 4 MB RAM upgradable to 32 MB       * 8 KB internal cache       * 1.2 MB 5 1/4" & 1.44 MB 3.5" Disk Drives        * 213 MB Hard Drive       * 1024 x 768 VGA Video Resolution       * 1 MB Video RAM 256 Colors       * 6 Available 16-bit ISA expansion Slots       * One local bus socket (16-bit ISA Compatible)       * 4 5.25" drive bays, 3 external       * One 25-pin Centronics type parallel port       * 2 RS-232C Serial Ports (9 & 25 pin)       * One 15-pin analog video connector       * One PS/2 Compatible mouse port       * 200 Watt power supply       * 101 key keyboard and mouse included       * Software includes Windows 3.1, Dos 5.0, Microsoft Works for Windows        The store wants $1200 (without monitor) for this.  Is it a good price?        Thanks!
After a rough start purchasing a 486 system (see earlier post), I'm trying again.  I'm looking at the following system offered by EPS Technologies:  - 486dx 33mhz w/ 256K static RAM cache,AMI Bios - 3 32-bit VESA local bus slots, 3 16-bit slots, 1 8-bit slot - Teac 1.2 & 1.44 mb floppy drives - Maxtor 170 MB hard drive (15 ms) IDE w/64K cache buffer - 32-bit vesa local bus video card w/ 1mb RAM 1024 X 768 NI (I *think* it's an    Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 card) - 14" NI Multisync monitor 1024 X 768 - 101 Keyboard - 200 Watt power supply - Windows 3.1, Mouse, DOS 6.0 - *3* years limited warranty - 1 year on-site service  I'm probably going to add the $125 for a 15" flat-screen digital monitor, and will also want to go for at least 8 mb RAM ($159 extra).  Has anyone bought from EPS Technologies, particularly a system like the one I'm considering.  I'm especially interested in their warrantee and service. Can anyone recommend other companies who offer similar packages, with support, and comparable prices (I see FastMicro just bit it...). Thanks in advance,
Does anybody out there have or used to have an HD controller from Perstor System Inc. (which is out of business I believe)?  My friend received an old PC which happens to have such a controller and I am having a hard time trying to add another HD to the card.   I believe the controller is supposed to control MFM drives as RLL drives??    Here the model info on the card, but any other similar model will probably do.    Perstor System Inc. Model: PS 180-16FN Rev: 2.2 ECN 9-21   I would appreciate your reply directly to my e-mail address below.    Thanks,   Ray  (rngai@oracle.com)
Hi there,   I have a problem here, I've lost the software drivers and setup programs for my Hardcard.  Can someone email me the files, or let me know if Plus Development (were they bought out by Quantum?) has a BBS or phone #?  I have a Hardcard II XL50.
Has anyone tried this HP LaserJet FAX. It receives faxes and prints them on your HP III. Also, from your word processor, you can print straight to the fax.
>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.  As far as I know, there is no way to get around the BIOS password except by  shorting out the power supply to the CMOS memory, thereby erasing it. This  will remove the password, but it will also destroy all the previous BIOS  settings, so then you'll have to go and set them all up again. On my 386,  there is a jumper on the motherboard which is provided for the purpose of  shorting the battery. You just short this jumper briefly, and it interrupts  power to the CMOS long enough to erase it. I would imagine there is  something like this on your board too.   In the future, I would suggest that YOU set the password, and leave it on  "Setup" only. That way, no-one else can go and reset it or set it to " Always" unless they know what password you used. They had to do this over  here too when they got a bunch of new 386's, for just the same reason.  -Dale
In article <1r5ep8$67e@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ab245@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Sam Latonia) writes: > > >Article #61058 (61121 is last): >>Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware >From: redmond+@cs.cmu.edu (Redmond English) >Subject: Diamond Stealth: HELP! >Date: Wed Apr 21 16:54:39 1993 > >Hello, > >   I have a Diamond Stealth VRAM card (the older version >with the DIP switches on the back).  I have two problems: > >1 ) I've lost the manual!!! > >2 ) I have it in a machine with a network card, and >    everything works fine until I run windows, when >    the network connection dies. > >    (In case it's important, the network card is an >     SMC ArcNet 8-Bit compatable card.  It's I/O >     address is 02E0 and it's RAM base address is >     D000.  It's also using IRQ 2)  [REMAINDER DELETED]  I don't have my copy of the manual with me right now, but I can offer the following in the interim:     1)  The card uses port addresses 0x2E0 and 0x2E8 (which are NOT        configurable).  These addresses, incidentally, were inadvertantly        omitted from my version of the manual.     2)  I believe there is a dip that controls whether or not to enable        IRQ 2 (for CGA or EGA support??!?).  Lance Hartmann (lance%hartmann.austin.ibm.com@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)                Yes, that IS a '%' (percent sign) in my network address.
Hi All COMPAQ owners  A friend of mine has COMPAQ (PORTABLE III), and he has lost all the manuals and diskettes.  Please HELP him getting the machine's equipment definition (CMOS) memory configuration right. The machine says that some bytes of it are still  incorrectly set up. It seems, that COMPAQ has some bytes defined not like the 100% IBM compatible machines. If You have a COMPAQ, it certainly has DIAGNOSTICs diskette with it. And this is needed. I can't reach quickly any COMPAQ dealers here.  If it is possible PLEASE email documentation, or some of its configuration software.
Hi all.  I've been installing a new hard drive recently and have run into several terms that I'm not sure about.  1.) Hard Sectored/Soft Sectored -- What's the difference?  How do I know which to use?  2.) Head Skew & Cylinder Skew -- I understand that these are related to performance... How do I know what's optimal?  My drive is an ESDI drive, if that makes a difference in discussing these terms.  		Any info/help is greatly appreciated!
Do all SCSI cards for DOS systems require a separate device driver to be loaded into memory for each SCSI device hooked up?  Will this also be true of the 32-bit OS's?  Thanks.
In article <1993Apr22.162835.4286@oracle.us.oracle.com>, ebosco@us.oracle.com (Eric Bosco) writes: > In article <1993Apr22.094851.27323@physchem.ox.ac.uk>   > mark@physchem.ox.ac.uk (Mark Jackson) writes: > >  > > In article <1993Apr19.195301.27872@oracle.us.oracle.com>,   > ebosco@us.oracle.com (Eric Bosco) writes: > > >  > >  > > I dont think you can mix the two types of drive, unless you have one of   > the > > SCSI/IDE cards that is available.  You will have to turn your IDE off. > >  >  > Is this true??? I was under the impression that people on the net had both   > SCSI and IDE working together.  NO! I'm running both at home. Ok, to the cumpter is turned off right now but I did boot BSD/386 from an IDE drive, most of the system is on a SCSI drive...  I'm using an Adaptec 1542B and a no-name el-cheapo IDE card.  >  >  > >  > > > Well that seems to be all. Is there anythiing I'm forgetting?  > > > Any help is *really* appreciated, I'm lost... > > >  > > > -Eric > > >  > > > ebosco@us.oracle.com > > --  > > Mark  > >   > __________________________________________________________________________  > ____ > > mark@uk.ac.ox.physchem  Guy
Jim_Johnson@abcd.houghton.mi.us (Jim Johnson) writes:  <speaking of CPU fans>  >                      Many use clips - make sure you use heat sink >grease, or heat transfering tape, or you will have wasted your money.  Do these CPU Fans also have heat sinks?  Do you recommend using both on the same chip (i.e. heat sink sandwiched between CPU and Fan)?  If we are just talking about a CPU Fan blowing directly on the CPU chip, I can't see how "heat sink grease" is necessary (or even desireable). --   =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
I have uploaded the most recent Windows drivers for the Cirrus GD5426  chip based display cards to the uploads directory at ftp.cica.indiana.edu  (file is 5426dr13.zip). They're very recent, I downloaded them from the  Cirrus BBS (570-226-2365) last night. If you are unable to get them there,  email me and maybe I can upload them to some other sites as well.   I have a local bus based card (VL24 Bitblaster from Micron) but I think  the drivers work with ISA cards (or at least includes drivers for them).  I found the new drivers to be a significant improvement over the 1.2 version,  improving my graphic winmarks (v3.11) by about 2 million (7.77 to 9.88)  although this could be the result of intentional benchmark cheating on  Cirrus's part but I don't think so.  From Steve Gibson's (columnist for Info World) graphic card comparisons  (also found at the cica ftp site under the name winadv.zip) I extracted the  following for the sake of comparison:  							Wintach              		Winbn3.11	Word	Sprsht	Cad	Paint	Overall Steve's system: 486/33 VLB: ATI Graphics Ultra Pro	  9.33		10.34	 20.78	8.28	14.90	 13.58  my system - 486sx/33 VLB: VL24 Bitblaster		  9.88		 8.65	 11.71	18.84	15.40	 13.65   Its no Viper, but I think its a hell of a deal at about a third of the cost of  the ATI card and when compared to the other cards included in Gibson's review.  Micron system owner's, I would be interested to hear your opinions on the  DTC 2270VL local bus disk controller. My system came with a Maxtor 7120  drive (120 MB) and at first was only giving me disk winmarks of about 16 Kb/s,  I am now at 22 Kb/s. Is this about as good as it gets? I can't get a Norton's sysinfo disk reading because the contoller intercepts the calls, at  least that was what the program said.
In article <1993Apr5.163224.9526@cbfsb.cb.att.com> rmm@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (richard.m.maniscalco) writes: >In article <1pm61pINNp45@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar) writes: >>According to e_p@unl.edu (edgar pearlstein): >>>        Here's another one: >>> >>>        5.  My computer arrived with the following statement in its >>>            config.sys file:  STACKS = 9,256.  I changed it to >>>            STACKS = 8,128 and saved 1296 bytes.  Maybe it could be >>>            lowered even more, but I haven't tried it.  >> >>Exactly. >> >>Regardless of what Microsoft says, I have set STACKS=0,0 on every single >>computer I have installed Windows on from a simple 386SX-16 up to 486DX-50 >>with EISA motherboards, NDI Volante TIGA adapters, Intel Ethernet Express >>cards, and caching SCSI controllers from DPT and DTC. >> >>Not a problem yet, and the extra 2K+ gained means a lot with conventional >>memory gobbling programs like OrCAD and Tango PCB. >>--  >>John Bodnar                          : "While we liked developing Windows >>The University of Texas at Austin    :  applications, we never inhaled." >>Internet: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu :  >>UUCP: ....!cs.utexas!ut-ccwf!jbodnar :       -- Borland CEO Philippe Kahn > > > >I remember reading somewhere (QEMM manual, I think) that  >STACK=9,256 is needed only for the Windows SETUP program.   >Otherwise, use STACK=0,0. > >	Rich> >   Hmmmmmm...I got my comp with windows pre-installed, and stacks is still 9,256.  if it was needed only for setup, wouldn't the morons take it off???  (also, I don't have the qemm manual, as verything came with the comp,  but not the qemm manual, so could anyone verify this???)  Mickey
Volker Voecking (voecking@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE) wrote: :  : Hello :  : I have problems combining two IDE hard disks : (Seagate ST3283A and Quantum LPS105A). As single hard disk both : are working fine, but connecting them together to my  : controller doesn't work. :  : My questions are: :  : - Has anybody out there ever been succesful using such hard disks :   together and if so what jumper settings and BIOS settting did he/she :   use? :  : - Is it possible that my controller is the reason for my troubles ? :   The only thing I know about it is that it is an  :   IDE-harddisk-controller. How many harddisks can such a controller :   control? In my case only one ? :  :  : Thanks in advance :  : 	Volker :  IDE drives have jumpers on them to indicate if it is a master or a slave. If it is a master, then a second jumper indicates if a slave is present. These must be set correctly according to each drive's manufacturers spec- ification.  The CMOS setup is almost positively NOT the problem.  It is probably not the controller - IDE controllers all support exactly two drives maximum.  Check those jumpers.
I need the jumper settings for the achieve io card...usually found in xt's.  It is affecting my video card and forcing the machine into 40 col mode.  Any help?                  -The Ghoul Hath Spoken
The fan in my power supply, like most, is distractingly LOUD. Has anyone found  a solution to running a pc with peace and quiet? Short of buying a notebook  PC, I don't know what to do. Oh yeah, I did hear about a power supply called a  "Silencer" - which is supposed to be more quiet. Has anyone had experience with this? I was quoted a price of $225 (!) for a 270Watt Silencer.  I've even considered stuffing my PC case in one of those acoustic "printer  enclosures", but that wouldn't be the most elegant solution. Also, I'm  guessing that would also cut the ventilation.  Any other ideas?  Thanks in advance for ANY suggestions! Please E-mail whatever you post...
On 21 Apr 93 17:03:00 GMT Chris Crayton (chris.crayton@ozonehole.com) wrote:  | There is a software version of MNP-5 available from MTEZ, and it will often | connect with other modems that are MNP compatible, but if the modem that you | are connecting to doesn't support MNP then it won't help.  Error correcting | modems will eliminate line noise, but only id there are error correcting | modems on both ends of the conncetion.  The added soeed is much worth the | price of error correcting modems.  9600 baud V.42bis modems are very | reasonable, and they are only about 15% slower than the more expensive | 14,400 modems on the market.  What is MTEZ? A dealer? A repository? Any details?  -- Penio Penev  x7423 (212)327-7423 (w) Internet: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu
Does anybody have a data-sheet handly for the above-mentioned card?  I bought one, sans manual at a local surplus shop, and want to try it out with the Crywyr packet driver suite.    The IRQ and interface-select jumpers are pretty straightforward, but I don't grok the settings of W10-W18 (also labelled A15 through A18). Could somebody tell me which settings of these four jumpers correspond to what I/O addresses?  Is there anything else about this card I should know, before I plug&play?
Has anybody seen empty Everex's being sold ? I want the cube. Not the computer inards. Will it take standard AT-size motherboards ?  Thanks. e-mail please.  --
*** On 04-19-93  04:09, John Bongiovanni had the unmitigated gall to say this:   >>Suddenly, the date no longer rolls over.  The time is (reasonably) accurate  >>allways, but we have to change the date by hand every morning.  This involves  >>exiting the menu system to get to DOS.    JB> Did I once hear that in order for the date to advance, something, like  JB> a  clock, *has* to make a Get Date system call? Apparently, the clock  JB> hardware interrupt and BIOS don't do this (date advance)  JB> automatically. The Get Date call notices that a "midnight reset" flag  JB> has been set, and then then advances the date.  When a program uses a DOS call to get the system, it resets the flag that tells the BIOS that it has passed midnight.  It then uses this flag to increment the date.  If the menu does a call to the system to get the time before midnight, before the BIOS sees the midnight flag, then BIOS will not know that the day passed and the date will not get updated.  I might have some DOS's and BIOS's mixed up (darned cold messed up my brains) but this has been a well documented problem for years.  I don't know of a workaround.  Hope this helps!  ... Two most common elements in the universe: Hydrogen & Stupidity. --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
skcgoh@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Shaw Goh) writes:  >35002_4401@uwovax.uwo.ca wrote: >: I need to know the Pins to connect to make a loopback connector for a serial >: port so I can build one.  The loopback connector is used to test the  >: serial port. >:  >: Thanks for any help. >:  >:  >: Steve >:  >Me Too!!!!!!! >skcgoh@tartarus.uwa.edu.au  In a 25-pin serial loopback plug, you need to connect the following pins:  pin 1 to pin 7 pin 2 to pin 3 pins 4, 5 and 8 together pins 6, 11, 20 and 22 together pins 15, 17 and 23 together, pin 18 to pin 25.  That should do it.  Note that *a lot* of these pins are redundant in many implementations....  Phil
Hi everyone, 	I have a question regarding my stack on my pc.  I am programming  in Turbo C 3.0 and my program is rather large (model large too).  I keep  getting errors that I am running out of memory after a while of running the  program. When I compile the program, it says I have 4.45 meg of RAM so  I can't seem to explain why it crashes.  All it is doing is running in a loop while the operator is idle and after a while of sitting, it will screw up all the variables. This leads me to believe that my stack is filling up and overflowing.    Does the program take memory up when it is calling void functions that do not return anything??  	I have been working on this problem for days and I would really appreciate any responce.  If this is not the correct newsgroup, I will gladly re-post, but this is the only I could find.
My disk that had my joystick code that some of you were kind enough to mail me puked....specifically, I am looking for C code to read the position of joystick WITHOUT using int15h, i.e. accessing port 0x200/0x201 directly.  I need it in C becaues of memory model considerations.  I only need to be able to read the X and Y position also.
I am using a 8507 IBM monitor (19" greysale) with a Trident (1MB) card.  The screen looks great (Windows) at 640x480 but total shit at 1024x768. There are lots of lines and the image is sorta blurry.  Is there anything I can do.  Do you think it is the monitor?  I know that it is Interlaced at that res but still.  thanks for the help
I never thought I'd contribute to a Gateway thread, either pro or con, but my spleen could use a little venting.  The scenario:  	1 - Ordered a DX2/50 w/ Ultrastor 34F Local Bus HD controller 	2 - Receive system 10 days after ordering (Happy) 	3 - Discover Ultrastor 14F ISA HD Controller inside (unhappy) 	4 - Call Gateway, receive the correct controller in 5 days  		(getting happier) 	5 - New controller doesn't work (unhappy again) 	6 - Call Gateway again, get another controller in 5 more days 			(cooling off, the end is in sight) 	7 - This controller doesn't work either, motherboard is bad 		(VERY unhappy)  Gateway's solution:  They will order me a new motherboard (5 more days) 	and have on-site service install it for me. BUT, I have to take a day off of work because the service people only work 9-5 M-f.  I say, no way I've already blown about 20 hours with this, about 10 of them on hold and I don't have the time or $$ to take a day off work.  Also, my 30 day return period is almost over and I've only been able to use the thin for about 10 minutes.  So, the whole  thing is going back.     I was extremely upset when I began this post because the support rep told me that I would have to pay shipping not only for the returned system, but also the two hard drive controllers they had sent me.  Fortunately, I just spoke to customer service and they are going to have UPS come and pick everything up gratis. The only downside is that now I have to order another computer.  I would really like to try Gateway again, I'm just very turned off by the prospect of having to try and get through to Customer Service or Tech Support again...  I think their products are great for the most part, but I'm beginning to wonder if the savings are worth the potential aggravation. Are other mail order companies as difficult to contact?  I know Gateway is booming, and for good reason, but I don't know if I can take it again. Oh well, I feel better now...
Is it possible to put more than 1 controller in a PC.  By this I mean of  different types.  ie.  RLL and MFM.  If so how do you access the drives in the CMOS setup.  Do they just show up to be configured or do you  have to do low level writes to the controller.    As an example put 1 RLL controller with 2 drives in a machine.  Put a MFM controller and 2 more drives connected to it.  I now have 4 drives with 2 controllers of different types.  Also can you  put 2 controllers of the same type into a PC and again how do you access  them.    I was asked this question and never tried to do it so if anyone has done this and can supply me with info I would very pleased  Thanx in advance for any info...
richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes: [Stuff about the connection between IDE and IDA deleated] >8MHz clock, 16 bit width, 5MB/sec. If IDE speed come from IDA WHERE does the 8.3MB/s sighted for IDE come from?  SCSI is not complex. It is just the way the industry uses and talks about it. There are THREE key differences in SCSI; the controller chip, the port, and the software.  THAT IS IT. Let us look as SCSi in from THIS stand point.  SCSI-1: asynchronous and synchronous modes {SOFTWARE SCSI DRIVER ONLY}  asynchronous is slower then synchronous mode {only 0-3MB/s vs. 0-5MB/s}  synchronous speeds can be reached by most SCSi-1 divices with a  rewrite of the software driver {As is the case for the Mac Quadra.}  SCSI-2 {8-bit}: THIS is the main source for the confusion. This differs from  SCSI-1 ONLY in the controler chip in most machines.  In the Mac and some PCs  this is called 'fast SCSI-1' because it uses SCSI-1 ports and software drivers  AND can produce SCSI-2 SPEEDS through SCSI-1 INSPITE of this even in the   slower asynchronous mode.  Average speed in asynchronous SCSi-1 mode   4-6MB/s with 8MB/s{See in both Quadras and higher end PCs} Synchronous  mode just allows a higher burst rate {10/MB/s}  SCSI-2 {16-bit}: TWO versions-Wide/Fast.  Wide SCSI-2 requires TWO things  over 8-bit SCSI-2:  a SCSI-2 software driver and a wide SCSI port on the  machine and the external device.  Fast SCSI-2 also requires TWO things over 8-bit SCSI-2: SCSI-2 driver  software and that the RECIEVING devise support 16-bit fast SCSI-2.  Speed of both is the same: 8-12MB/s with 20MB/s burst.  SCSI-2 {32-bit}:  Also know as Wide AND Fast SCSI.  Over 8-bit SCSI-2 this  requires: SCSI-2 driver software, wide SCSI-2 port, and that the RECIEVING  devices ALSO have a 32-bit mode SCSI-2 chip.  As expected this is VERY  expencive.  Speed: 15-20MB/s with 40MB/s bursts