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mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Keith Mancus) writes:  > <reference to running ATI's Install Program and using >  its functions to position/size images at various >  resolutions>  I thought this was a neat feature until I noticed that when an image is re-sized, the scanning frequency is necessarily changed.  This causes digital multiscan monitors like my MAG MX17F to get confused as to which mode to use if the frequency gets too far from the standard selections.  For this reason, I use the "factory defaults" for position/size on the ATI card and adjust each mode individually (only the first time) at the monitor.  The MAG (and many other multiscan monitors) has (have) the ability to recall these settings the next time each mode is "detected". --   =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Hello everyone,  Could anyone tell me where to find some information about NetBios and Bios interrupt calls.  A book or maybe an FTP site.  Thank you in advance.
The Quantum LPS 240AT is supposed to have a 256K cache on the IDE controller built into the card.  Yet when I do a DOS DIR command on my system, the disk is always accessed (I can hear the mechanical movement of the heads).  Why is this happening?  Strangely, even when I have smartdrive installed, every DIR command accesses the disk.  Did I somehow de-activate the cache?  This is happening on each  of two machines with an LPS 240AT drive.
In article <1r5243$hvd@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>   tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Ts'o) writes: > In article <C5pIsw.Kq8@cs.mcgill.ca> gerardis@cs.mcgill.ca (The GIF   Emporium) writes: > >... 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). >  > 	I have a 5FG and think it is great. I haven't seen the   Nanao's so I > can't compare, but the 5FG image is very sharp and the color   contrast is > *extremely* good. I've used other Trinitron monitors (e.g. a Sun   SS2 color > monitors, which is a 19" Trinitron), and think the 5FG is at least   as good, > perhaps brighter, and has *none* of these silly horizontal lines   running across. > 	BTW, I could be wrong, but I thought that the 5FGe is slower   as well > as missing ACCUCOLOR. It may not be able to handle 1280x1024 the   way the 5FG > can. >   I believe PC mag said 5FGE can't do 1280x1024.   > 			Cheers, > 			Dan Ts'o >                         Div. Neuroscience       713-798-3100 >                         Baylor College of Medicine >                         1 Baylor Plaza S603 >                         Houston, TX  77030        tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu  >
Well, my 14inch VGA 1024x758-interlacing 2.5 year old no brand monitor just bit the bullet. I pressed the power switch and a few seconds later, the power light went out with a POP. Gawd, it's only been two and half years.  How long would normal monitors last? I think the problem with my monitor is the power switch... but the image was getting pretty dim anyway (I needed to have my contrast all the way to the max...). And the screen did flicker from time to time. Is this normal (hehehe) or do I just have the worst of luck???  Question: What do I do now???? Buy a new one? Get it fixed? Save up for a *really* good one and get by with a cheap EGA monitor for now? I rather save my money to upgrade my 386SX to 486-66 though...  Thanks!
Hi!  I have a problem with my floppy drives. In an effort to make my 3.5" drive  (normally b:) my a: drive, I switched the order of connections on the cable  from the serial card/floppy/ide controller. I booted up, changed the CMOS settings to reflect the a: drive as the 3.5 and the b: drive as the 5.25. The drive lights didn't come on, and there was a failure trying to read from those drives.  I switched the cables back to their original positions, and then booted-up and restored the original CMOS settings. The lights for the floppies came on during this process, and they stay on for as long as the computer is on. I see that when there is a disk in a:, the drive is spinning, yet there seems to be no disk access. MSD.EXE and Norton SI detect both drives, but when I  try to get detailed information about a: or b:, Norton SI tells me that there is no disk in the drive.  Can anyone offer any suggestions? I'm in desperate need of help!!!  Thank you for your time.
jhereg@iastate.edu writes: >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" :) What CPU does this use?  I need the info fro my Thesis.
Hi,  I am going through a box of old IBM card and came across one called a   Rapid Technology SQUEEZE card.  It is dated 1990 and has a 54mhz crystal on it and a big chip that has 'C-Cube' on it.  No connectors to the outside, but a ribbon-type 50-pin connector on the board.  It is a 16-bit board.  Any ideas what it is?   Phil   -------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Hunt                          "Wherever you go, there you are!" Howtek, Inc.
In article <1qmgtrINNf2a@dns1.NMSU.Edu>, bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) says:  >DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu writes: >>In article <1qlbrlINN7rk@dns1.NMSU.Edu>, bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) says: >>>In PC Magazine April 27, 1993:29 "Although SCSI is twice as fasst as ESDI, >>>20% faster than IDE, and support up to 7 devices its acceptance ...has >>>long been stalled by incompatability problems and installation headaches."  >>I love it when magazine writers make stupid statements like that re: >>performance. Where do they get those numbers? I'll list the actual >>performance ranges, which should convince anyone that such a >>statement is absurd: >>SCSI-I ranges from 0-5MB/s. >>SCSI-II ranges from 0-40MB/s. >>IDE ranges from 0-8.3MB/s. >>ESDI is always 1.25MB/s (although there are some non-standard versions)  >By your OWN data the "Although SCSI is twice as fast as ESDI" is correct  (How is 0-40 twice 1.25? Do you just pick whatever SCSI setup that makes the statment "correct"?) Even if you could make such a statement it would be meaningless unless you understood that ESDI and IDE (I include SCSI and ATA) are completely different (ESDI is device-level, like MFM/RLL).   >With a SCSI-2 controller chip SCSI-1 can reach 10MB/s which is indeed >"20% faster than IDE" {120% of 8.3 is 9.96}. ALL these SCSI facts have been  Great, you can compare two numbers (ATA has several speed modes, by the way) but what the article said was misleading/wrong.  >posted to this newsgroup in my Mac & IBM info sheet {available by FTP on >sumex-aim.stanford.edu (36.44.0.6) in the info-mac/report as >mac-ibm-compare[version #].txt (It should be 173 but 161 may still be there)}  I would recommend people call the NCR board and download the ANSI specs if they are really interested in this stuff.   >Part of this problem is both Mac and IBM PC are inconsiant about what SCSI >is which.  Though it is WELL documented that the Quadra has a SCSI-2 chip >an Apple salesperson said "it uses a fast SCSI-1 chip" {Not at a 6MB/s, >10MB/s burst it does not. SCSI-1 is 5MB/s maximum synchronous and Quadra >uses ANsynchronous SCSI which is SLOWER}  It seems that Mac and IBM see  Something is missing there. :) Anyway, I agree. There's a lot of opportunity for marketing jingo like "SCSI-2 compliant" which tells you nothing about the performance, whether it has "WIDE" support, etc.  >One reference for the Quadra's SCSI-2 controller chip is >(Digital Review, Oct 21, 1991 v8 n33 p8(1)).
In article <1qndvd$jhn@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> da416@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Andy Nicola) writes: > >In a previous article, limagen@hpwala.wal.hp.com () says: > >>OK all you experts! >>Need answer quick.386 machine ,1.44 floppy ; unable to write to a formated >>720 disk.Machine claims that disk is write protected,but it is not. >> >>Note: It 'll read 720's with no problem. >> >>Please e_mail or post. >> >> >> >> >If the disk is not an HD-type disk, i.e. with the extra hole in the case >opposite the normal write protect hole, the drive will not write to the >disk. You can punch a similar hole with whatever is handy or buy a small >device, a square hole puncher, for about $19.95...see the back pages of >computer shopper magazine for it. > >To be brief, make the hole any way you can or no writing! > >--  >Andy Nicola >  Of course you should be able to write a DD 720Kb disk without making any holes.
hello all- i have a problem with my micro solutions backpack- sometimes  it works, sometimes it doesnt.  i will either start a backup, or  start a tape format, and at about 20 percent i get an error either saying the tape is bad or the backup/format has aborted for an unknown reason. if i turn everything off and wait a half hour it works fine.  is it because the tape backup is too warm?  has anyone had similar experiences?
Hi.  I am trying to set up a Conner 3184 and a Quantum 80AT drive.  I have the conner set to the master, and the quantum set to the slave (doesn't work the other way around).  I am able to access both drives if I boot from a  floppy, but the drives will not boot themselves.  I am running MSDOS 6, and have the Conner partitioned as Primary Dos, and is formatted with system files.  I have tried all different types of setups, and even changed IDE controller cards.  If I boot from a floppy, everything works great (except the booting part :)).  The system doesn't report an error message or anything, just hangs there.  Does anyone have any suggestions, or has somebody else run into a similar problem?  I was thinking that I might have to update the bios on one of the drives (is this possible?).  Any suggestions/answers would be greatly appreciated.  Please reply to:
My 3.5" floppy drive stopped recognizing low density (720K) floppies.  The controller and drive works fine in another system. I was told it could be the DMA chip. The system is a 386DX-25 using Chips & Technology chip set. I'm open to all suggestions. Please send your replies to:  		ken@jazz.concert.net
Hi,  Can anyone tell me the difference between ~30-pin and 72-pin Simms? I wish to get detailed information about the origin of these two different types of Simms, preferably a magazine review aricle.  By the way, if there is a FAQ for this group which covers the Simms information, please also direct me to it.  Any help/information would be very much appreciated.   Sincerely,
Is it possible to buy a serial I/O card with the 16550 UART's built in (rather than having to buy them separately, and socketing them in)?  My current I/O card uses 8250's (correct number? The braindead ones anyway). It also controls two floppy drives, and two IDE hard drives.  Ideally, I'd like to get a new multi I/O card, that had 2 serial ports with 16550's and could also control another 2 IDE HD's. It would have to have configurable addresses for both the serial ports, and the IDE controller, so it could co-exist with my existing card.  Does such a beast exist? Now the hard part - where can I get one in Australia, preferably Brisbane?
Hello,  in the EDN magazine I found a note about the new C&T 82C735 I/O Controller. It support several parallel port protocols, including 	Fast Centronics 	Microsoft Enhanced Capabilities Protocol (ECP) 	Enhanced Parallel Port (EPP) The last two handle data rates up to 2Mbytes/sec.  Is there any specification about these protocols available?  Regards,  	Christian Franke
HI,     Recently, when I run the Norton Disk surface test, I realize a slow down in harddisk accessing.  At begining of the test, the harddisk will be checked at the speed that usually is.  As the surface test scaned half way through my harddisk, a tremendous slow down occured.  The expected time for operation will jump from 3 to 6 minutes.  I try to use some of the harddisk tools to check if there is any physical damage to my harddisk and report always turn out to be none.  The surface test only slow down for a certain section of the disk and turn back to the original speed after it gets over the section.  I am wondering whether it is a harddisk problem or some other problems. Anyway help or comment will be appriciate....                                                  Shane Cheney Wang
To all netters,    In my last post that concerning about the CYRIX 486DLC CPU, I said the benchmark program COMPTEST stated there is a bug in CYRIX CPUs. This is NOT true and I must apologize to the author of COMPTEST. The actual program that gives this report is F-PROT 2.07, a virus detection and removal program. The report stated there is a bug in the Cx486SLC but not DLC. Sorry, sorry, sorry...
Andreas Kuehnel (idler@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote: | I'm using Norton Cache 5.0, which is really nice but horrible incompatible. | Some games won't work it, my streamer software won't work with it and Windows | doesn't like it at all. But when copying or deleting lots of small files, only  That's surprising -- I haven't seen any incompatibilities with mine, version 6.01.  The version that came with my upgrade to 6.01 had some problems, but Symantec fixed those and I've haven't seen anything wrong since.  I'm not running Windoze, by the way.
I have a WANGTEK tape controller card (Revision E) that was used with the Sytos backup system to take backups of a friend's system. That system has crashed and I'm attempting to restore it.  Unfortunately, the documentation for this ancient card has been lost in the mists of time, and I need to know the DMA, IRQ and address for this card.  Can anyone suggest how I could determine these things?  There is a bank of dip switches on the card which are set to:  --------------------- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10     UPUPUP    UPUPUP UPUP      UPUP ------OPEN----------  Thanks for your time.
Tony Catone (catone@compstat.wharton.upenn.edu) wrote: : 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... :  : It's also where the two annoying lines across the screen (one a third : down, the other two thirds down) come from. :   The 2 lines are not a result of the high end trinitron tube, these 2 wires will be found on all 17" trinitron tubes (e.g., Mitsubishi 17", Sony 1604, etc).  On 14" Sony tubes, you'll find one wire.  Their level of annoyance is purely subjective.  I'm so happy with the sharpness of the T560i that I don't even notice the lines.  The T560i uses a Trinitron SA tube which, when viewed as a complete tube, has a larger diameter than the standard Trinitron tube.  This results in  a flatter screen than other 17" monitors using the standard trinitron  (which has a vertically flat but not horizontally flat surface), and  apparently the ability to provide a tighter beam focus.
Is it possible to plug an ordinary ISA card into a VESA localbus slot? I am running out of slots and I have one spare localbus slot.
Can anybody send CONNER CP-321 harddisk specifications? It has 612 Cyl, and 4 HD, but I am more intrested in its time-out values,  precomp, etc.
>Well, Gateway faxed me a price sheet just now. It seems >to be on the higher side, but then again, maybe not.  >  80486DX 33 MHz >  8MB DRAM(70 ns SIMMS) expandable to 64MB >  250 MB Western Digital IDE (13 ms) 17Mb DTR >  Local Bus IDE interface >  ATI Ultra Pro VL bus with 1MB VRAM and 24 bit drivers >  15" CrystalScan 1572FS color monitor >  All for $2445  This isn't at all too high of a price.  Keep in mind that you get *8* meg of  ram, a *local bus* IDE *and* SVGA card,  a *250* mb hd, and a *15"*  monitor.  The local bus IDE and SVGA really kick butt in Windows.  I have  used a couple of machines with VLB in the past, and all I can do is praise  Gateway.
My fiance has a pc-junior and wants to upgrade to a full 386.  Does anyone know if we could use the monitor it came with on a new machine?  I heard it's MCGA or EGA, but not sure which.  Also, does it use cards, so we can  use the drive controller, floppy, etc?  Thanks for the help! -Bryan
Just wanted to ask a question. I bought a hard disk drive second-hand the other day, and I opened the packaging up and saw that there was a small sticker on the drive that had a little red apple with a bite taken out of it. It's socket did not look the same as my existing hard disk that is in my computer already (it has fifty little pins sticking out from it instead of the 39 that is sticking out of my old hard disk. I don't know if disk drives for the Apple (or Mac) are different from ones used in AT clones, so could someone tell me if I could use this hard disk on my AT clone? If not, what did I just purchase? It's a Quantum Prodrive. It's dated 1988 on the green board. Will I need a controller/add-in card? All the help is much appreciated. Thanks! :)
Facts: ===== - A Netware Server 286A was roughly moved to a new location and left powered down for three months. - From memory it has an 80 MB hard drive. - Manuals and original disks are for SFT Netware 286 Level II V2.0a - When powered up, the CMOS was wiped. A technician examined it and  pronounced the disk drive unusable.  My investigations indicate that drive C is a type 27 (1024 cylinders, 9 sides). When CMOS set this way, COMPSURF runs happily, with 13 bad blocks.  I use PREPARE to Hotfix the one internal drive.  Install will proceed "successfully", but when I try to boot the server, it reports that the software is not serialised for this hardware.  Internal examination indicates that the keycard is present, and there is one disk drive (or at least one large single unit).   Attempts to configure a second drive in CMOS result in drive not ready errors.  Questions: ========= The software is Netware 286 Level II and I can see burnt on to the screen SFT Netware 286 Level II V2.0a. However, to configure netware for level II (mirrored or duplexed disks) requires a second disk, yes?   So how is the Novell Server 286A normally configured?  1. Can I install SFT Netware 286 Level II V2.0a as Level I, or is this what is causing my serialisation error? 2. Is the Novell Server 286A normally equipped with two hard drives, one of which has failed? 3. Would this mean I can not install the network software because it will not be serialised for this hardware with a failed drive? 4. What else can cause a serialisation error? 5. What happens if the keycard fails? 6. Am I doing something wrong? Can someone knowledgeable offer some comments and guides.  Thanks for your time.  Apology: ======= I appreciate that I have posted this request somewhat widely. As I'm dealing with somewhat archaic hardware and software I'm hoping that by casting my net further, I'm more likely to capture someone who has met this system before. I believe I can justify the groups to which I am posting. Please feel free to correct me if you feel this is an inappropriate place to post this.
lioness@oak.circa.ufl.edu writes:   >I'm using int15h to read my joystick, and it is hideously slow.  Something >like 90% of my CPU time is being spent reading the joystick, and this >is in a program that does nothing but printf() and JoyRead().  >The problem is that a lot of programs trap int15h ( like SMARTDRV ) and >so it is a slow as hell interface.  Can I read the joystick port in >a reasonably safe fashion via polling?  And that isn't platform or >clockspeed specific?      The joystick reads in anolog values through a digital port. How?     You send a command to the port to read it, then you time how long     it takes for the joystick port to set a certain bit.  This time     is proportional to the joystick position.  Obviously, since time     is used as a position, you cannot get rid of this ridiculus waste      of time.  If you wrote your own routine instead of the BIOS, it     would speed it up some, but the time would still be there.  --
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?
I'm writing a driver that needs to remap some I/O ports.  This means virtual mode.  Unfortunately virtual mode means it won't get along with expanded memory managers, so I need make it an EMM driver too.  Does anyone out there have EMM code.  Can any point me to an EMM code source?  -Thanks, Morgan
hamilton@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu (Wayne Hamilton) writes:  >a friend of mine recently got such a serial card.  i'll have to >ask him to verify the details, but as i recall, he paid ~$50, it's >made by STB, it has 2 (or was it 4?) ports, and it supports the AT >IRQs (8-15) in addition to the convention ones.  i'm sure of the >last, because he had trouble finding comm software that would allow >him to override the "standard" IRQ assignments.  Unfortunately there a *LOT* of such software.  I also find it to be the case that the majority of the software that is BAD in this regard is COMMERCIAL software.  Way too many commercial packages are very poorly written.  But then most of the programs in MS-DOS are crap, such as the PRINT command TSR that locks up your system for long periods of time when the printer is full instead of trying every clock tick.  Back to comm software... I find success with TELIX (my COM3 at 3e8/5 works ok on TELIX).
I own an 80386sx, 16Mhz, 2Mb ram machine and am finding it too slow for certain games such as X-wing. I was in a Computer store there the other day and saw a series of Gamecards which claim to speed up your machine to up to 80Mhz! I was wondering if anyone out there who has a similar machine had bought one or seen one of these Gamecards and whether or not they do actually work! 	Any help here would be much appreciated, 		Thanks in advance, 			Greg.  --
I'm in the market to upgrade my BIOS to a Phoenix 1.10 (got a new hard disk, discovered my BIOS doesn't have a "type 47") and I would like know where I can purchase one of these things.  I checked with the motherboard manufacturer (for the curious-- it's from Mylex), and hearing the $60 figure prompted me to at least try to shop around...  Problem is, I don't know where to shop around for something like this.  I have heard that there's a BIOS speciality shop in the South Bay and it's been alleged that they advertise in the MicroTimes.  Did find the MicroTimes, didn't find the ad or the shop.  So, can anybody help me out on this quest?  To anybody who replies to this-- Thanks in advance.