waashk/20ng huggingface dataset:
Hi there.  We just bought a 486 DX2/66 Gateway system with a 2 meg ATI Ultra Pro video card.  Everything seems to work fine except for the Windows Drivers for 800x600 24 bit, and 800x600 and 1024x768 16 bit modes.  The fonts and icons start deteriorating after windows startup, and within minutes of use, everything on the screen is totally unintelligible.  Naturally, I called Gateway tech support to inquire about this.  The technician asked me about the drivers, and I told him it was version 1.5, build 59.  He told me that the 16 and 24 bit drivers for the ATI Ultra Pro simply do not work!!!  Is this true?  If so, I'm simply amazed.  How could this be?  The strange thing is I would have expected to see some discussion on here (unless the subject has made the FAQ!!!).  One very suspicious point that came up later was that he stated that none of the Windows Accelerator boards have working 16 and/or 24 bit drivers for Windows 3.1.  I easily challenged him on that because I've been running a Diamond 24x in 15 bit mode at home for 4 months now, and I have tested and used the 24 bit mode as well.  He then backed off and said: "Well, Diamond has been working on those drivers much longer."  Anyway, I just wanted to see if anyone else had any trouble and what they did about it.  Any feedback will be appreciated.  The system configuration is:  Gateway 486 DX2/66 Local Bus 16 Megs Ram SCSI HD & CD-ROM Ultrastor 34F Local Bus SCSI controller ATI Ultra Pro Local Bus with 2MB VRAM DOS 6.0 Windows 3.1 Mach 32 drivers version 1.5 (build 59)  Thanks in advance.
I read on the BBS a while back thats a BBS may be started for         Gateway2000. Did a BBS start, and if it did, would you let me         know the newsgroup name. Please send information by e-mail.         My e-mail address is joe_west@lds.loral.com. Thanks...joe west.
In the next few months I am intending to build a 386 or 486 PC system for remote monitoring. I would welcome any comments or advice you may have on the choice of motherboard, HDDs and I/O boards. Recommendations for good companies selling these would be a big help.  Many thanks,  Peter Green.
I am DESPERATELY trying to find a PC based e-mail wide area network service or the necessary network software to establish one myself. While I am aware there are various BBS's and other similar services avalible (like Compuserve, Canada Remote Systems etc.) I require fairly specific criteria. In  approximate order of importance they are:  1) The mail/files/news are read/written locally and batched to the network    server. (ie. no continuous on-line connection)(NOTE: all users are remote    and will use modems over conventional phone lines.)  2) Simple. The users I have for the system have very little computer knowledge    have never heard of Unix, and have very little interest in learning. It is    essential that the client software is completely pain-free.  3) Cheap. We would prefer not paying high connect fees to an established    commercial network, just so we can send large files between members of the    group - hence (1). In addition I would like the network server to be    something small, simple and inexpensive like a 486. (There are only about    40 people in the group, so it is not a huge network.)  4) The capability for Internet access (for news/mail).  5) Internet style id's (eg. pwood@math.uwaterloo.ca)      If anyone knows of a system similar to what I am describing, even if it doesn't sastisfy all my criteria, and I don't care where it is, PLEASE PLEASE e-mail me and tell me about it. We are not adverse to making alterations to an existing system if necessary.
I have a 486/50Mhz ISA Board with 256kbyte Cache and 16 Megs RAM. I just bought the new soundblaster 16 and tried to  install the card. The sb16 uses 16bit DMA channel.I could select between channel 5 to 7. It is the first card I ever installed that uses 16bit dma transfer. After I tested the card the first time, the computer crashed and I got a parity error-system halted. This happens either from dos as also from windows. So it seems that my 16 bit dma channels are not working properly (they are there because testsb16.exe recocnize them and tests them ok until first access).   Well, does anybody know a solution for this problem or a special test program for dma problems? I eliminated the  problem temporaly by using only 8 bit dma channel but it makes the system slow!
I have a 386/40 motherboard with AMI BIOS. I haven't located the little motherboard manual yet, and suddenly it's giving me 10 beeps when I turn the power on. It was working fine this morning, then gave all kinds of problems, in Windows and outside it. After multiple reboots, now it only gives 10 beeps and sits there?
In <1993Apr15.211053.35792@watson.ibm.com> kaul@vnet.ibm.com writes: >my home Viewsonic 6.  I like the Multisyncs because it's easy to run them >in modes like 800x600x64k colors noninterlaced, or at higher modes like >1360x1024x16. Oh yeah! I just got my new Eizo Flexscan yesterday (to replace my old 8515), and I tried it with 1360x1024. This mode is just great! I can get four perfectly readable command windows on the screen! And if I need more colors, I can go back to 1024x768 or even 800x600. One thing I am wondering though: Why isn't there a MONxxxx.DGS file which contains ALL the resolutions up to 1360x1024? Now I have to change the XGASETUP.PRO every time I want to switch, instead of simply going through the system settings of OS/2. Regards, Martin Erzberger
35002_4401@uwovax.uwo.ca writes:  >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.  From a recent BYTE magazine i got the following:  [Question and part of the answer deleted]    If you are handy with a soldering iron, the loopback plugs are easy to make.  On a serial RS-232 nine-pin port, use a female DB-9 connector and connect pins 1 to 7 to 8; 2 to 3; and 4 to 6 to 9.  For serial RS-232  25-pin ports, you'll need a female DB-25 connector with pins 1 to 7; 2 to 3; 4 to 5 to 8; 6 to 11 to 20 to 22; 15 to 17 to 23; and 18 to 25 connected.  To test a Centronics 25-pin parallel port, you'll need to connect pins 1 to 13; 2 to 15; 10 to 16; 11 to 17; and 12 to 14 in a male DB-25 connector.  					-Stan Wszola ---  I haven't tried it. Use at own risk.
In article <1993Apr21.124531.13053@ac.dal.ca> tominatr@ac.dal.ca writes: >Stupid question from a new IBM PC user: > >I'm going to be selling my Mac and getting a Gateway 2000.  *retching noises*  Talk about "out of the frying pan and into the fire" :)   >Are SCSI drives faster than IDE?  I'm pretty sure SCSI is faster.  Along with a lot better compatability.
How can one tell which prong of your basic chip is number 20?  I realize there is a chunk of the chip missing so that one can orient it correctly.  So  using that hole as a guide, how can I count the prongs of the chip to find #20?  Please help.
Hi, 	I am buying a Quantum LPS240AT 245 MB hardisk and is deciding a 	HDD/FDD controller. Is 32-bit VL-bus HDD/FDD controller faster  	than 16 bit IDE HDD/FDD controller card? I hear that 	the VL bus controller is SLOWER than a IDE controller? 	Which one is true?  	Please shed some light by email or post. 	Thanks a lot.  Best regards,    ____________________________________________________________________________ | Beng-Hang Tay                       | Telnet:    520 8732                  | | Singapore Networks Operation        | Phone:     (65) 279 8732             | | Hewlett-Packard Singapore Pte. Ltd. | Fax:       (65) 272 2780             | | 1150 Depot Road                     | Internet:  taybh@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com   | | Singapore 0410                      |                                      | | Republic of Singapore		      |                                      |
Just taken delivery of a 66MHz 486 DX2 machine, and very nice it is too. One query - the landmark speed when turbo is on is 230 or something MHz - thats not the problem. The problem is the speed when turbo is off. Its 7 MHz. The equivalent in car terms is having a nice Porsche with a button that turns it into a skateboard.  Does anyone have a clue as to what determines the relative performance of turbo vs non-turbo?? I would like to set it to give a landmark speed of about 30 or 40 MHz with turbo off.  Cheers,
Is there anybody who has (or can point me in the right direction) any information about protected mode? Also interested in protected mode viewed from a OS point of view.
To following up my own note: Ted Richards (ted@isgtec.com) wrote: : Al DeVilbiss (al@col.hp.com) wrote: : : : : It looks like everything works as advertised but I am disappointed : : with the speed.  I'm using an Intel 400 internal 14.4k modem in the PC : : with Telebit 14.4k on the Unix end, which are currently limited to : : 19.2Kbits by the Unix com link. To get a quantitative comparison, I : : did 'cat file' where "file" is 20 kbyte uncompressed ascii text, and : : it took 75 seconds to scroll through an X window over the modem link, : : 270 chars/sec.  Using the identical hardware and Procomm+FW the same : : "cat file' takes 11 seconds, 1820 chars/sec.  BTW, I use NCD PC XView : : on my PC at work (HP) every day for the same Unix access from a PC over : : a LAN and like that just fine.  The same 'cat file' scrolls by in : : ~2 seconds on the LAN connection.  I just tried a few experiments. I cat'd a 20261-byte file (471 lines) under various scenarios:  PC-Xview for DOS in a full-screen OS/2 window (1024x768x16):    18 sec Telix (DOS) in an OS/2 window (1024xs768x256):                  107 sec! Telix (DOS) is a full-screen OS/2 window (standard VGA):        11 sec Telix (DOS) in a Windows 3.1 window (1024x768x256):             30 sec UW/WIN in a seamless OS/2 window (1024x768x256):        gave up after 4 min! UW/WIN in Windows 3.1 (1024x768x256):           faster, but gave up after 2 min UW/WIN in a seamless OS/2 window using pg       30 sec, could have been a                                                 little faster (I had to keep                                                 hitting the space bar)  I was using an ATI Wonder XL video card, by the way.  So PC-Xview for DOS looks pretty good (and the line-by-line scrolling in OS/2 desktop looks pathetic, although full-page redraws are pretty good).  I tried it under PC-Xview using my normal (9x15bold or 10x20) font, and with a very small font, and there was no difference in the times. The modem receive light was on pretty solidly, so it looks like the bottleneck was the 9600-baud modem, not the screen drawing.
biernat@rtsg.mot.com (Tim Biernat) writes:  {> i am interested in getting the pulse of this group regarding {> extended operation of my G2K 486-33V with the cover removed  {> from the enclosure.  there are a # of reasons i am considering  {> this, including quick access to jumpers during complex i/o card  {> setups. {>  {> my concern is that without a complete enclosure to direct the {> cooling flow of air from the fan, "hot spots" may develop on my {> motherboard or elsewhere.  my G2K has intake air vents in the  {> front of the enclosure right at MB level.  These vents would be  {> removed along with the top cover in this scenario, rendering {> airflow from the fan pretty useless.   {>  {> however, short periods in this mode don't seem to heat things up {> too much, but my conclusions are far from scientific... {>  {> -- tim  I ran a 386-33 out of a cardboard box for more than a year with no major effects (yeah, no case at all, MB sitting on a static bag) other than the noise from the Poersupply it ran pretty good. as for cooling problems I bought a 12-14 inch fan and  turned it on full and set the output directly on the motherboard.  I did finally get a case though and I am still running the parts with no ill effects.  I also had no kids to spill things on the MB> I had no cat leaving hair on the MB etc. etc. on and on....  the two major concerns are keeping static away and keeping the MB cool enjoy                                                         -David  =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
In article <1993Apr19.220704.18518@news.cs.brandeis.edu> luoma@binah.cc.brandeis. edu writes: >Has anyone (successfully) put both SCSI and IDE hard drives >on the same system?  I would like to know as well, since I just bought a 200MB Seagate IDE drive and want to add it to my computer (a four-year-old Gateway 386/20), which currently has an 80MB Seagate SCSI drive.  The SCSI controller is such that the docs told me not to specify it in the CMOS setup, i.e. both hard drive settings are listed as "Not installed," and apparently the SCSI controller works its wonders.  I wondering if this is a problem.  Also, I remember how, when I helped my cousin install his second IDE drive, we had to define a master/slave relationship for them; do I need to do something similar here?  >I am particularly interested in having the SCSI as the _boot_ drive.  Same here.  Any help would be appreciated, since I intend to install this drive ASAP; I'd like to know what to do (and what not to do) before I start. Thanks! --
In article <1qttufINN5dr@uniko.uni-koblenz.de> from [19 Apr 1993 10:12:31 GMT] you wrote:  |> In article <1993Apr13.000531.25096@jetsun.weitek.COM> robert@weitek.COM (Robert Plamondon) writes:  |> >In article <1q0n5pINN60m@uniko.uni-koblenz.de> hodgen@ozzy.uni-koblenz.de (Wayne Hodgen) writes:  |> >  |> >>To sum up, when an accelerated board with 4MB VRAM (True Colour 1280x1024)  |> >>AND A FAST VGA SIDE is available under $500, I will buy one.    SuperMac just announced a new line of PC accelerated cards that do 1024x768 in 24bit color.  They start at $999 retail.  I don't think your wait will be very long.
I have a Tseng labs video card that gives me problems when I do anything in  super VGA mode.  CHECKIT v3.0 reports a Video Page Frame Address Error at  Page Frame #7.  What does this mean and how (if I can) could this be fixed? The card Says ET4000Ax on it.
In article <C5uM7F.35ux@austin.ibm.com> guyd@austin.ibm.com (Guy Dawson) writes: > >In article <1993Apr21.061246.11363@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, montuno@physics.su.OZ.AU (Lino Montuno) writes: >> This may be a very naive question but is there any basis for the >> claim that a CPU will get hotter when a computationally intensive  >> job is running? My friend claims that there will be little difference >> in the temperature of an idle CPU and a CPU running a computationally >> intensive job. > >It first depends on what an idle cpu is doing! > >I'm not sure about DOS, but many multitasking OSs have an loop like this > > >loop: >	is there anything to do? >		YES -> do it; goto loop >		NO  -> goto loop > > >The CPU is not doing any work but it is still processing instructions...  I've done some ASIC and digital design, but not any CPU design. It would seem to me that on a 486, the FPU is not being used, most of the cache is not being accessed, the off chip buffers/drivers are idle, the multiplier isn't multiplying, the barrel shifters aren't shifting, microcode isn't microcoding, etc.  This means transistors aren't switching which means less power dissipated (in CMOS), which means less heat.\  From what I understand, the Pentium shuts down those sections of the CPU which aren't being used in order to cut down on heat/power.
Is there a FAQ on Cyrix 486DLC? Could anyone please repost it or email to me, if I missed it? Thanks in advance.    ... Alexander Poylisher, Internet: apoylis@inode.com; FidoNet: 1:2603/106
In article <19APR199322421085@oregon.uoregon.edu> arosborn@oregon.uoregon.edu (Alan Osborn) writes: >In article <1993Apr19.090707.3686@tdb.uu.se>, m88max@tdb.uu.se (Max Brante) writes... >>Have anybody succeded in converting a atari monomchrome monitor into a >>mono VGA monitor. If so please let me know exactly how you did and what >>graphics card you used. >I wish I could help!  I posted a similar question about two weeks ago; >I got no response at all.  I've asked locally at my friendly Atari store. >I was told that it should be possible, but that they had no idea how >it might be done.  Nor did they particularly care to investigate. > >Please, if anyone has _any_ suggestions, post them!      You might try asking on one of the comp.sys.ibm.* echos (the best one may be comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware).  I say this because the conversion seems more geared toward a PC user wanting to use that monitor, than an Atari user who already can use the monitor (unless maybe they want to really go wild - converting the monitor to VGA, then using it as a VGA monitor with a Falcon :-)     As for graphics cards, assuming that the Atari monitor can be modified/adapted to handle VGA signals, you should probably be able to use any VGA card (at least with a res around 640x400).  I haven't tried this, but that would be my guess...  				Robert Anisko 				anisko@usdtsg.daytonoh.ncr.com
In article <1993Apr3.163556.24998@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Keith Mancus) writes: > In article <1993Apr3.011823.22935@kpc.com>, pcarmack@gimp.kpc.com (Phil Carmack) writes: > > ....there are people who are performance driven enough to do it. > > If it weren't so people wouldn't buy Pentium(tm) systems in the first > > place since they could buy a 486DX3/99 that would run their existing  > > applications faster.  Certainly a 486DX3/99 is in the same "league" as > > a Pentium(tm). >   >   Is the 486DX3/99 anything more than a myth?  I haven't heard of it > from any source that I trust, and I sure don't see any ads for DX3/99 > machines in Computer Shopper.  Intel is pretty busy with the Pentium > right now; I can't seem them introducing their own competition. >   IBM has displayed a 486DX3/99 as a *TECHNOLOGY DEMO*.  This effectivly means - "here's some neat technology". It is not a commitment to make such an item...  > --  >  Keith Mancus    <mancus@butch.jsc.nasa.gov>                            >  N5WVR           <mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov>                         >  "Black powder and alcohol, when your states and cities fall,           >   when your back's against the wall...." -Leslie Fish                    Guy
------------------------------------------------------------------------- Netters!  I have seen some postings on PC/IP from MIT. This package out of 1986(?) should be a full TCP/IP fro the DOS-machines. Is there anyone out there that's using it?  I want to connect a DOS-machine to my OS/2 machine... Tell me what the DOS-machine should run (sample CONFIG and AUTOEXEC would be great) and where I can find a nfs client. I understand that a telnet and a ftp client are part of the package.  I've got the Crynwr package drivers, but that's it! Please point me to a good source of information if you cannot help me yourself...
*** On 04-21-93  04:51, Ikos had the unmitigated gall to say this:   Ik> I'm in the market to upgrade my BIOS to a Phoenix 1.10 (got a new hard  Ik> disk, discovered my BIOS doesn't have a "type 47") and I would like  Ik> know where I can purchase one of these things.  Call Phoenix.  They can put you on line with replacement BIOS chips.  I had to do this when I upgraded a Emerson 386/20 to an IDE drive.  Also, if you are installing an IDE drive, and there is a BIOS setting that has a total volume the same as the IDE drive's volume, try using it.  The IDE drive can usually respond to a variety of different geometries, as long as the setting that you use is equal to or smaller than the drive's actual size.  The controller will do the necessary translation automatically, in most cases.  WARNING!!!  Do not use a BIOS setting that is even one byte larger than the actual size of the drive!  A smaller setting will not harm the drive, but you will be sorry if you go even one byte over.  Drive damage will not result, but headaches will!  ... Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (P)anic --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
In article <1993Apr20.122812.2441@mfltd.co.uk>, nmp@mfltd.co.uk (Nic Percival (x5336)) writes: |>  |> Just got a 66MHz 486DX2 system, and am considering getting a fan for the |> CPU. The processor when running is too hot to touch so I think this is a |> fairly good idea. (long ago when I did some electronics training I read |> somewhere that the regions within a chip that define junctions/gates etc |> slowly diffuse over time and this increases with temperature, hence a hot |> chip goes off-spec sooner) |>  |> Has anyone out there got a CPU fan?? |> Is there more than 1 type? |> Do you have to remove the CPU from its scoket to install the fan? |> Do all CPU fans derive their power from spare drive power lines? |> Anyone had any trouble with CPU fans? |> Does anyone have any evidence that CPU fans are a complete waste of money? |> How are these fans attached? (glue? clips? melted cheese?) |> Roughly how much cooler will the CPU be with a fan as opposed to without? |>   (an advert I've read claims 85F vs 185F) |>  |> Any info appreciated, |> --  |>  +-- Nic Percival ----------+- "Well that was a piece of cake, eh K-9?" -----+ |>  |   Micro Focus, Newbury.  |  "Piece of cake master? Radial slice of baked  | |>  |   (0635) 32646 Ext 5336. |   confection... - coefficient of relevance to  | |>  +-- nmp@mfltd.co.uk -------+-  Key to Time: zero." - Dr. Who ---------------+  I own a PC FanCard II, which is a slightly different beast.  It's a long card that plugs into an 8 or 16 bit slot and contains two muffin fans.  It requires no extra cabling.  I had a 286 that was experiencing some problems due to heat.  The FanCard made the system run cool enough so that the problem no longer appears.  It's supposed to keep the internal temperature in the range of 75-95 degrees Fahrenheit.  According to the maker's (M.S. Tech) advertisements, the US Army used a bunch of these to keep their PCs running (w/o a/c) in Desert Storm.  I can't vouch for that.  However, I am a satisfied customer.  And I have no other connection with the maker or the mail-order house (Lyben  (313) 268-8100).  Hope this helps,
I think it would be a great idea to have a new group created:  comp.sys.ibm.pc.flame.therapy
I have a 105MB IDE drive and am having a few problems! I get  'Data error on drive C' messages when reading some files. The problem is also steadily getting worse.  I have run some diagnostic software (PCTools V7.1) and it says that the drive is OK - but it does have to retry some sectors and it briefly  flashes up an error message (which is too quick to read).  Does anybody know of any cheap or free software which could mark these sectors as bad (DOS doesn't) or preferably perform a low level format. I have heard that the latter is possible on an IDE. Technical answers would be appreciated. It would be nice to be able to use the disk again!!!
In article <1993Apr9.101944.3200@ucbeh.san.uc.edu> hoffmamc@ucbeh.san.uc.edu writes: >A hard drive with XT-type controller can be added, but I recommend not trying a >full -height 5 1/4" hard drive, as I have run into trouble with the 63.5w >supply not having the oomph to spool up those big heavy platters. > one way to get the system going with one floppy drive and one hard disk on a 63 watt power supply is to first disconnect the power from the floppy drive than turn on the pc, you will notice the hard drive having a real difficult time getting up to speed, but it manages. when booting is finished, plug in your floppy drive, now it will work.  (ok I know this is not very user friendly, maybe you are better off buying a 486-66 with 300 watt power supply or something like that)