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In article <11172@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com>, hwrvo@kato.lahabra.chevron.com (W.R. Volz) writes: > In article <1993Apr20.183959.1@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu>, dcoleman@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Daniel M. Coleman) writes: > |> Gateway 2000 has released a new Flash BIOS update for their local bus systems.  > |> Because I'm such a nice person, I uploaded them to wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Look > |> for glb05.exe in the msdos_uploads section.  Enjoy! > |>  >  > I have several questions: >  > 1) What do I gain with this new BIOS? >  > 2) How can I save a copy of my old BIOS in case I want to go back? >  > 3) How do I install the new BIOS? >  > I'd like to enjoy, but need answers first.  1) It fixes some problems with MicroProse games.  After leaving F-15 III it would, in vain, try to find a floppy in drive A:.  This has been fixed.  I don't know what other corrections were made.  2) It comes with an image of the original, in case things don't work.  3) Download glb05.exe.  Format a bootable floppy disk, and don't put a config.sys or autoexec.bat.  Run the self extracting archive so all the files explode to the disk.  Run the file fsh.exe.  It should be self-explanatory from there.  Dan  P.S.:  I was feeling extraordinarily generous once again, so I uploaded the file to ftp.cica.indiana too..
Build 59 causes 2 exceptions when I exit Windows. In fact, I have had this happen on all builds after 44, which shipped with my Gateway system.  Am I doing something wrong, or is this problem commonly overlooked?
In article <1993Apr15.195810.26648@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes: >Hello folks! > >I have an Archive XL5580 (internal QIC-80) tape drive, which is pretty >comparable to the Colorado Jumbo 250.  Since I have two floppy drives in >my system, I'm using a small card (not accelerated) made by Archive to  >attach my tape drive as a third floppy device. > >The problem: Although the DOS-based QICstream software works just fine, >both the Norton and Central Point backup programs for Windows fail unless >I switch the machine to non-turbo speed (I'm using a 486DX/33 EISA).  Since >the DOS software works, it can't be a hardware problem, can it?  Has anyone >seen similar problems?  Any solutions?  Thanks in advance.  Yeah.  Sounds typical.  Windows makes all sorts of extra demands on hardware, and therefore your machine can't keep up with things.  Ever notice how when acessing the floppies in Windows, everything else slows to a crawl?  I  imagine your backup and evertyhing else that is running fights for CPU time, and sometimes the backup program loses.  Be glad.  I can't even run in  medium speed with CP backup on my machine, supposedly because I have a SCSI machine which places extra demands on the data bus.
marka@SSD.CSD.HARRIS.COM (Mark Ashley) writes:  >In the latest PC Magazine (Pentium isssue), there  >is an editorial on the >advantages of a PC using EISE/VESA-LB rather >than just plain ISA/VESA-LB. Supposedly users >will eventually want more than 16Mb of RAM. >However since the ISA bus has only 24 bits,  >then anything on the bus can access only 16Mb >even if I have 32Mb on the motherboard. >So far I agree with the arguments.  >Then the writer claims that glitches can >occur in systems with over 16Mb because  >of that limit. That part I don't understand >because the RAM is right on the motherboard. >So the cpu should have no problems talking >with the RAM. Can anybody explain this ?  The problem is with ISA bus-masters which can only address the first 16MBs of system memory.  Bus-masters do not use the CPU nor the system DMA to do the actual data transfer but transfer their data directly to the system RAM.  rp93
After reading many postings concerning hard drives I'm still unclear about one thing.  These new "cached hard drives" - is the cache on the drive itself or is it separate, like on the controller or something? Thanks to anyone who can clear this up.  --
Hi Netters!  I'm looking at purchasing some sort of backup solution.  After you read about my situation, I'd like your opinion.  Here's the scenario:  1.  There are two computers in the house.  One is a small 286 (40MB IDE drive).     The other is a 386DX (213 SCSI drive w/ Adaptec 1522 controller).  Both      systems have PC TOOLS and will use Central Point Backup as the backup /      restore program.  Both systems have 3.5" and 5.25" floppies.  2.  The computers are not networked (nor will they be anytime soon).  From what I have seen so far, there appear to be at least 4 possible solutions (I'm sure there are others I haven't thought about).  For these  options, I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has tried them or sees  any flaws (drive type X won't coexist with device Y, etc.) in my thinking  (I don't know very much about these beasts):  1.  Put 2.88MB floppy drives (or a combination drive) on each system.     Can someone supply cost and brand information?  What's a good brand?     What do the floppies themselves cost?   2.  Put an internal tape backup unit on the 386 using my SCSI adapter, and     continue to back up the 286 with floppies.  Again, can someone recommend a     few manufacturers?  The only brand I remember is Colorado Memories.  Any     happy or unhappy users (I know about the compression controversy)?    3.  Connect an external tape backup unit on the 386 using my SCSI adapter, and     (maybe?) connect it to the 286 somehow (any suggestions?)   4.  Install a Floptical drive in each machine.  Again, any gotcha's or      recommendations for manufacturers?    I appreciate your help.  You may either post or send me e-mail.  I will summarize all responses for the net.  Thanks,
In article <1993Apr20.183959.1@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu> dcoleman@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Daniel M. Coleman) writes: >Gateway 2000 has released a new Flash BIOS update for their local bus systems.  >Because I'm such a nice person, I uploaded them to wuarchive.wustl.edu.  Look >for glb05.exe in the msdos_uploads section.  Enjoy!  i also noticed this was out.  the readme that comes with it doesn't tell you squat, except to warn you that bad things may happen.  anyone have any idea what these can do for me in terms  of, say, performance ?
In article <1993Apr16.140234.13267@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes: >In article <1993Apr16.074836.6819@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu writes: >>I have a Maxtor 212MB on an ISA IDE controller, although my machine is >>DX2/66 VLB. I has the save transfer rate of 0.647 MB/s regardless of >>the variations of the ISA bus speed. I tested it with speed between >>5.5MHz and 8.33MHz. Not _any_ difference. The problem is not the >>interface between the controller and the memory. >> >>My advice: Buy 4Megs of RAM, save $70 and enjoy performance. > >Computer: 286-25 mhz >Bus: ISA (12.5 mhz) >Drive: Maxtor 7213A (213 mb) > >I'd still like to here from people with VLB-IDE. >I still want to know what VLB bus speed is used with IDE drives. >I still want to know if some (most ?) IDE drives can handle bus speeds > 8 mhz.   I recently bought a Micron 486DX/33 VLB computer and the the local bus ide card was getting around 1k/s transfer rates (says norton).  I caled micron because this seemed pathetically slow and they said that norton 6.xx doesn't recognize local bus and won't give accurate results.  I was told I would need norton 7.0 in order to get a true account of my ide transfer speed.  I didn't really like this answer in part because the drive doesn't seem as though it's cranking along at much more than that, but I also don't know if I could tell the difference.  I tried playing around with settings in the CMOS (bus speed at the like) and noticed no significant change in performance.  **B0100000027fed4 Frank Shea
Dave (david@c-cat.UUCP) wrote: : vazzag@vccnw13.its.rpi.edu (Gregory Anthony Vazzana) writes:  : {>  : {> 	Howdy, : {>  : {> 	The other day I was using Norton's SpeedDisk to optimize my Seagate(125MB) h : {> problem persisted.  I backed up all essential data and decided to reformat : {> my hard drive.  When I attempted this it got to the 279th clylinder 8th : {> head and gave me an error message saying that it "Could not find the sector" : {> I have tried everything I can think of.  Now I can't even access my hard driv : {> to write information to it.  I tried to boot up with my MS-DOS disks but MS-D : {> tries to reformat my hard drive and gets 29% of the way through to say "Error : {> formatting hard drive. Press f3 to exit"  I tried to scan my hard drive : {> for viruses but I can;t access it and I get a message (When I try to do a dir : {> saying "Error INT 24"  Can anyone Help me?  I have no idea what to do.  : {>  : {> Thanks in advance for any help! : {>  : {> 				Greg  : try a bios level format via the debug command. : -G=xxxx:5  where xxxx is the Hex address of the hd controller bios : location. : if this will not work, a last resort would be to take a large magnet : to the hard disk, but this has to be done properly or you will cause : or could cause more damage than has been done already.  : disclaimer: I am not responsible for your actions by directly applying : a large magnet to your hard disk.  : if done correctly the magnet trick will wipe out everything on the : hard disk _COMPLETELY_ and a low level BIOS format might succeed   :                                                        -David  : =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
I have a question regarding sending a NULL character across ethernet connection. The actual problem is that emacs (Unix editior) needs the NULL character for setting a mark and unfortunately we don't know how to sent that from IBM PCs across ethernet. I am wondering if anyboy knows the keyboard combination for sending the NULL character.  BTW control,shift 2 which Ctrl @ does not work.  Thanks
I'm interested in building my own PC. Can anyone recommend a (UK available) book on the subject, and/or sources for parts?  Alternatively, can anyone recommend a source for a 486DX (33MHz) PC  (again UK available). I've just seen in Computer Weekly that the March '93 price for these has fallen to sterling 1092 (including os, monitor, keyboard, delivery and VAT), but I can't find a single advert that would give me a system at that price.
This is for a friend of mine. Please send answers directly to him (E-Mail adress see below )!   HIGHSPEED  ANALOG-DIGITAL PC-BOARD  Hello LAdies and Gentleman !  I am looking for a highspeed A/D PC-Board with a sampling rate above 250 MHz an a resolution of 8-bit. The sampling rate can be arranged by an interleave mode where the time equivalent sampling yields 2, 4 or 8 times higher sampling rate than the A/D-Converter uses in non interleave mode.  The board must content an A/D-Converter similar to Analog Devices AD 9028 or  AD 9038 or if available a faster on.  If you a PC-Board (16-bit slot, ISA) with this specification or better, please send me an EMail  hansch@cdc2.ikph.uni-hannover.dbp.de  or a Telefax to: ++49 / 511 / 7629353   Thanks in advance for your help !  Sincerely       Matthias Hansch      IKPH, University of Hannover, Germany    ---  Andreas Heinbokel  heinboke@tnt.uni-hannover.de
I am doing a report on the topic of 'Advanced Memory Management' and need to know of some good references to cover this topic.  It is an  Analytical Chemistry class on Instrumental Analysis.  So, as you  could guess, it doesn't have to be an extremely thorough or extensive covering of the topic.  Also, I am a Chemical Engineer and know some, but not too much about memory management.  If anyone could help point  me in a good direction I would be very thankful.  Thanks in advance.
Just curious why floptical drives never seemed to catch on. Remember those 21 Mb disks that look and feel like 3.5" floppies? These drives are SCSI devices and can read and write both 720 Kb and 1.44/21 Mb disks. Sounds to me to be one great product for the PC market. Are the prices really that unaffordable compared to CD-ROMs which are currently not rewritable? I know about the new rewritable CDs and expect SONY to develop the first MDs for the computer. My question is: why isn't there any substantial interest in developing the flopticals?  Just a thought.
Seeing all these questions about uart types, their availability, and their relative merits, wouldn't it be fine, if for internal highspeed modems there were a mode of operation bypassing the dull and stupid uart interface and instead accessing directly the relatively large send/receive buffers of the   modem, thus eliminating all problems with interrupt latencies ? Just an idea, Wolfgang R. Mueller <dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>, Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.
In article <1993Apr23.070230.9189@physchem.ox.ac.uk> mark@physchem.ox.ac.uk (Mark Jackson) writes: > >In article <1r74fr$d04@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, maf@Corp.Sun.COM (Mike Figueroa) writes: >>  >> Does anyone know if there are any problems (or if it's possible) >> adding a third hard drive(scsi) to a dos pc. >>  >> I currently have a 386 pc with  Future Domain scsi board  and  2 >> Maxtor  scsi  drives  installed.  They work great, I haven't had >> any problems! >>  >> Well, now I want more disk space and went out and  got   another >> (larger)  scsi   hard  disk  thinking all I had to do was add it >> to the chain(50pin ribbon  that  has  3  connectors)   and   run >> the   fdisk   program   to format/initialize the disk. >>  >> That didn't happen.  When the pc boots, the  scsi  prom   shoots >> back   the  devices   that   are  attached  to  the board[target >> 0/target1/target2].  All three disks are seen. >>  >> When I run the dos fdisk program to format the disk, I choose to >> select another  disk(option  5(dos6)) and voila, it's not there. >> The first two disks show up no problem, but the  third  disk  is >> no-where to be found.... > > >I have got an Adaptec SCSI card, that comes with its own version of FDISK. >The problem with DOS is that it will only see two hard disks, any more need to be >done by device drivers. >
I have a 486DX33 ISA system with 4 meg.  I am using a Diamond Speedstar HiColor video card with 1 meg VRAM and a standard CTX 14-in SVGA monitor.  When I am running Windows, and I have overlapping windows (say an application overlapping the program manager window), and I close the active application, window erasure is very slow.  The part of the window that is not overlapping is erased first, very slowly.  This also happens when I iconify an application.  The HiColor card is advertised as a faster-than-standard video card, but it does not have an accelerator chip on it.  I am running at 800x600x32k.  Is this slow speed simply to be expected without an accelerator chip, or is there something else that is bottlenecking the system that I am unaware of?  Thanks.
I have a 486/33 IBM clone with two serial ports (com1, com2) and mouse port. Both the serial ports are directly sitting on the mother board.  I tried to install a 2400 buad Hayes internal modem, but it doesnt work.  Once I dial any number the system locks.  I do not hear any click or ring before it the system hangs.  The modem has a 2 pin dip switch to select the appropriate port.  Once  I change the settings on the dip switch, the system starts working again.  Then I bought a 2400 baud Hayes external modem and checked the system.  It works fine with both the serial ports.  The internal modem has been checked on another machine and it works fine, but does not work on my machine.  Can anyone please help me to find the problem.
I am having troubleloading my Logitech Scanman Driver (latest version) into high memory with the devicehigh command in MSDOS 6. It gives me an 'invalid parameters' message. Is it necessary to change some of the scanner driver parameters when loading high? Any help would be appreciated
>  A quick look through the Computer Shopper gave the following companies >that sell 20"+ monochrome monitors for less than $2000 (PC or PS/2 compatible): >  Cornerstone Technology, Digital Technology, Hardware That Fits, >  IBM, Ikegami, Image Systems, Nanao, Radius, >  Ran-Ger Technologies, Sampo, Samsung, Sigma Designs.
Hi! I recently got hold of an old/obsolete PC. First thing I am trying to do with it, is making it work. Seems the switches in the back have been toggled since last it was used, and I do not have the manual. Can anybody help me to identify this beast, and mail me the prober switch-settings? All I know is that is is a Bondwell 38, made in 1986, most likely a 286, can be toggled between 4.77 and 8 mHz, and looks like no changes have been made. Any information would be appreciated.  --  Terje Johansen at Trondheim College of Engineering, Norway.
Hello, if you have any experience/knowledge/comments/advice/etc about Compaq's EISA Deskpro machines, please reply. (preferably via email)  I'm thinking of getting one and am looking for any & all user comments.  Thanks.
On 15 Apr 1993 20:14:20 GMT Divya Sundaram (sundaram@egr.msu.edu) wrote:  | I would like to hear the net.wisdom and net.opinions on IDE Controllers. | I would liek to get a IDE controller card for my VLB DX2 66 Motherboard. | What are good options for this (preferably under $200). It MUST also work | under OS/2 and be compatible with Stacker (and other Disk Compression S/W).  I have a Maxtor 212MB on an ISA IDE controller, although my machine is DX2/66 VLB. I has the save transfer rate of 0.647 MB/s regardless of the variations of the ISA bus speed. I tested it with speed between 5.5MHz and 8.33MHz. Not _any_ difference. The problem is not the interface between the controller and the memory.  My advice: Buy 4Megs of RAM, save $70 and enjoy performance.  -- Penio Penev  x7423 (212)327-7423 (w) Internet: penev@venezia.rockefeller.edu
*** On 04-19-93  03:56, Juan Carlos Leon had the unmitigated gall to say this:   JCL> I just got a problem, I have a cheapo 2400bps modem which I use to  JCL> connect to my university, but I get too much garbage on the screen. I  JCL> do know it's because the noise in the line (I can actually hear it).   JCL> So my question is will an error correction protocol help to eliminate  JCL> this garbage?, my modem doesn't have any of these on hardware, can a  JCL> software implemented protocol do the trick?  There is a software version of MNP-5 available from MTEZ, and it will often connect with other modems that are MNP compatible, but if the modem that you are connecting to doesn't support MNP then it won't help.  Error correcting modems will eliminate line noise, but only id there are error correcting modems on both ends of the conncetion.  The added soeed is much worth the price of error correcting modems.  9600 baud V.42bis modems are very reasonable, and they are only about 15% slower than the more expensive 14,400 modems on the market.  ... My hard disk is full! Maybe I'll try this message section thing. --- Blue Wave/QWK v2.10
In article <1qte10$kn5@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> ab245@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Sam Latonia) writes: > >I can't imagine why someone would leave their computer on all of >the time to start with. Its like leaving your lights tv, radio >and everything in the house on all of the time to me.....Nuts   Computers are a special case.. and it's a pretty good idea to  leave them on.. cuz everytime you turn on a computer, you're   putting a surge of electricity through its delicate components.   Imagine you're turning on your computer 5 or more times a day.  You're increasing the chances of damaging the chips, memory,  etc on all the components of your computer. So you may save  a few cents here and there in electricity bills, but it won't  look like much when it come time to fix your computer.
>> the "attached" fans look slick and work well but I'm bothered by the potential >> loss of cooling if the fan goes out. at least with the power supply fan you >> can reach back there every few days and feel the fan blowing. >>  > Yes, this is a valid concern IMHO.  With the directly attached fan units I've > seen, it looks like if the fan were to stop the chip cooling would be  > a good bit worse than no heat sink at all.  In other words, if the fan stops > the unit turns into an insulator and the chip might get hot enough to > suffer permanent damage, not just stop working temporarily. >   A suggestion:  Slave (hook in series) a small pilot light off the fan circuit.  Then, if the light goes out, you know your fan is not working.
In article <1r0rslINNnv2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr) writes: > >I'm running Linux on an 80486 EISA system, and I'm having what I think are >hardware problems.  It could be software, but I don't see why I'd be the >only one having trouble.  I'd like some advice on how best to debug this. > >The symptom: when I try to build gcc, I get unpredictable and unrepeatable >results.  Sometimes a .o file is not in valid a.out format.  Recompiling the >file gives me a valid binary.  Sometimes the compiler aborts or dumps core, >but works fine when run again with the same input.  Compiling the same >source files with the same arguments gives slight differences in a few >object files.  (Note that Linux, unlike many other systems, does not put >timestamps in object files so compiling twice should give bit-identical >results.) > >I also have occasional filesystem corruption on my SCSI drive, but that >could be caused by using development software.  It could also be related to >my problems compiling.  The compile problems are not caused by disk >problems: I get the same results whether I do my work on an IDE or SCSI >disk. > >I've set the memory speed and cache write speed to the recommended values.  Recommended for what, DOS? That is a junk.  > >I suspect the external cache, but I have no real evidence for this. > >The motherboard is a NICE Super-EISA with 256 KB write-back cache and a DX/2 >66 Mhz processor. > >What I'm looking for: > >	. A system test program to run under DOS or Linux  	Linux + gcc. Fire up gcc to compile libc and kernel at the 	same time running X11R5.  > >	. Suggestions about the cause of the problem  	Bad memory, bad motherboard, bad cache.  > >	. Suggestions about how to debug the problem >  	change wait state of RAM. 	turn off turbo. 	change bus speed 	swap RAM.