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2,000 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitors the mitsubishi i also reviewed a new nanao the f iw which has just been released last year for the may issue of windows i reviewed do you have the specs for this monitor what have they changed from the f i do you know if their is going to be a new t i soon a t iw thanks
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2,001 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re cache or micronics eisa vlb motherboard from article apr news cs indiana edu by mohammad al ansari alansari mango ucs indiana edu clip i am in the process of purchasing an eisa vl bus dx computer clip the first is ares and they use a cache motherboard that s the brand of the motherboard with opti chip set the other is micron formerly edge technology and they use the micronics eisa vlb motherboard clip i would really appreciate any input on this is the micron machine the clear choice does anyone know anything positive or negative about either company has anyone ever heard of cache motherboards should i go with micron just because it has the micronics motherboard etc thanks very much in advance for any information mohammad al ansari get back to your vendors or better yet the board manufactures and get some more info where made norton indexes yeah i know bms suck but whats a mother to do number of slots and types esia and bit any ide or scsi on board how easy to upgrade ram location and of pins overdrive oscilator kits does it have a uart who s bios these might make you feel better about either system but i must agree that ares with days of hr tech and year warranty is encouraging terry clark tclark umaxc uiowa edu you want an opinion you don t pay me enough for an opinion
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2,002 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | know anything about eisa i read about the development of eisa some time ago but dismissed it in light of the intense interest in vesa and pci however i recently was disheartened to hear that isa cannot address more than mb of ram a limit that too many of us will hit all too soon i recall that eisa will support bit transfer among other enhancements is there such a standard being developed bing ho bing zinc cchem berkeley edu university of california at berkeley
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2,003 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi in article richk apr gozer grebyn com richk grebyn com richard krehbiel writes can anyone explain in fairly simple terms why if i get os i might need an scsi controler rather than an ide will performance suffer that much for a mb or so drive if i don t have a tape drive or cd rom any help would be appreciated so when you ve got multi tasking you want to increase performance by increasing the amount of overlapping you do one way is with dma or bus mastering either of these make it possible for i o devices to move their data into and out of memory without interrupting the cpu the alternative is for the cpu to move the data there are several scsi interface cards that allow dma and bus mastering how do you do bus mastering on the isa bus ide however is defined by the standard at interface created for the ibm pc at which requires the cpu to move all the data bytes with no dma if we re talking isa at bus here then you can only have dma channel active at any one time presumably transferring data from a single device so even though you can have at least devices on a scsi bus explain how all of those devices can to dma transfers through a single scsi card to the isa at bus at the same time also i m still trying to track down a copy of ibm s at reference book but from their pc technical manual page the fdd adapter is buffered on the i o bus and uses the system board direct memory access dma for record data transfers i expect to see something similar for the pc at hdd adapter so the lowly low density original pc fdd card used dma and the pc at hdd controller doesn t that makes real sense
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2,004 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi in article apr grebyn com richk grebyn com richard krehbiel writes heck if ide used dma then you d hear all kinds of complaints about isa bus systems with more than m ram not working with their ide drives m is the dma addressing limit of the isa bus and if ide did dma there would be trouble there would be no problems as long as the os didn t set up a dma transfer to an area above the mb area the dma controller probably can t be programmed that way anyways so there probably isin t a problem with this besides like i said before the fdd controller uses dma channel and i don t yet believe that the hdd controllers any of them mfm rll etc don t also use dma
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2,005 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re where to find comm ports with irqs other than and 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 it s made by stb it has or was it ports and it supports the at irqs 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 com at e works ok on telix phil howard pdh netcom com ka wgn spell protection a right wing conservative capitalists are out to separate you from your money left wing liberal do gooders are out to separate you from everything else
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2,006 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | scan rate vs font size this past winter i found myself spending a ridiculous amout of time in front of my computer since my eyes were going berserk i decided to shell out some serious money to upgrade from a to a monitor i m running x at hz my eyes are very grateful however i find myself using a smaller font with less eye strain has anyone else had this kind of experience i thought that small fonts were the culprit but it seems that flicker was my real problem any comments alec lee alee cs du edu
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2,007 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re know anything about eisa in article qt nk o agate berkeley edu bing zinc cchem berkeley edu bing ho writes i read about the development of eisa some time ago but dismissed it in light of the intense interest in vesa and pci however i recently was disheartened to hear that isa cannot address more than mb of ram a limit that too many of us will hit all too soon i recall that eisa will support bit transfer among other enhancements is there such a standard being developed very possibly but if it s still going to be backwards compatible with the isa bus it s going to be the same tripe that the current eisa implementation really is from what i ve seen the pci bus will just be a new bit mhz intelligent bus ie bus controller takes care of interrupts and the like not jumpers hopefully it ll get somewhere up there with the amiga zorro iii bus vl bus is a bit too much of a hack for my liking toodlepip marc em
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2,008 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | upgrade from to help needed greetings please forgive me if this is faq if there is source on this kind of info please let me know i just got a station around in dimension and i am thinking about upgrade it to a or the station has a power supply two floppy disk drives and the big case i have sony monitor syquest drive mac and maybe a cd rom reader mac for it here are the questions i have so far is there a motherboard at this dimension that i could use the case the original owener has the controller for floppy drive and hard disk removed can i use them to control these devices under how much do i have to pay for a new controllers if the old ones won t work how can i make syquest scsi and cd rom scsi work on this station i heard that there is a cheap sound board that has scsi controller built in what s quality of this board how much usually does a scsi control cost is there any ftp sites that has syquest driver or cd rom driver for the pc if i can have everything hooked up ok what i want is a motherboard a sound board to make it a mpc quality station how much would it cost to do that is it worth the hussle than just buy a new station btw i need to buy a keyboard for it too any input is welcome thank you peter liu
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2,009 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re date is stuck in article apr kosman uucp kevin kosman uucp kevin o gorman writes anybody seen the date get stuck i m running ms dos with a menu system alive all the time the machine is left running all the time 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 anyone have the slightest idea why this should be even a clue as to whether the hardware battery cmos or dos is broken i bet it suddenly started sticking when you started leaving the pc running the menu all night there is a limitation bug in the date roll over software in pc s that means you have to be doing something like waiting for keyboard input via a dos call rather than a bios call as menus often use otherwise the code to update the date after midnight never gets called somebody might be able to correct the details in case i ve mis rememberred them but i think you have to change the menu program if you have the sources or add a tsr or system patch or something as far as i know the cmos clock keeps the right time in fact about seconds day better than dos s clock mark aitchison university of canterbury
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2,010 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | netware server a and sft netware level ii v a serialisation facts a netware server a was roughly moved to a new location and left powered down for three months from memory it has an mb hard drive manuals and original disks are for sft netware level ii v a 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 cylinders sides when cmos set this way compsurf runs happily with 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 level ii and i can see burnt on to the screen sft netware level ii v a however to configure netware for level ii mirrored or duplexed disks requires a second disk yes so how is the novell server a normally configured can i install sft netware level ii v a as level i or is this what is causing my serialisation error is the novell server a normally equipped with two hard drives one of which has failed would this mean i can not install the network software because it will not be serialised for this hardware with a failed drive what else can cause a serialisation error what happens if the keycard fails 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 this posting is definitive bljeghbe chugh vaj blhegh wayne mcdougall keeper of the list of shows better than star trek tm ask me about the auckland festival of missions april i always change my mind when new evidence is available what method do you use
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2,011 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | problem with printer and emm exe i recently decided to try using emm exe for a memory manager and when i tried to print to my printer in lpt from word i wouldn t work it would send the linefeeds for the top margin and then the printer ready light would go off and stop working i disabled emm exe and the problem went away i would like to continue using emm exe if possible i would greatly appreciate any comments or suggestions please send them to arthur u washingt arthur u washington edu
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2,012 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi how do you do bus mastering on the isa bus by initiating a dma xfer seriously busmastering adapter have their own dma ability they don t use the motherboards on board dma which is much slower isa has no bus arbitration so if two busmastering cards in isa system try to do dma xfers on the same dma channel the system will lock or crash i forget their are dma channels in an isa system are bit are bit the system uses dma a soundblaster uses dma i could buy a busmastering xga video card a busmastering scsi ha in order for them to work properly i would have to find out what dma channel the xga card uses and then simply configure the scsi ha to use a different dma channel for its dma xfers i don t know if multiple dma xfers can go on at the same time on isa i m not sure if they can on eisa systems either i do know that on eisa mca systems you can allow bm cards to use the same dma channel thanks
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2,013 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re soundblaster irq and port settings they don t have a conflict because technically lpt does not use irq the parallel printer processor the actual number escapes me contains a printer control register which enables the chip to transmit an interrupt to the interrupt controller as irq then onto the main processor as int x f by default the parallel printer processor does not enable it s interrupt line therefore no int x f s will be sourced from the printer controller chip thus enabling other devices to use the actual irq note this applies to com ports also which by default do not route interrupts to the system bus although com s software usually enable this feature as it make monitoring com port activity easier than polling the serial uart thus probably getting the sound card slighty confused windows may be a different story
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2,014 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | modems and noisy lines hi i just got a problem i have a cheapo bps modem which i use to connect to my university but i get too much garbage on the screen i do know it s because the noise in the line i can actually hear it so my question is will an error correction protocol help to eliminate this garbage my modem doesn t have any of these on hardware can a software implemented protocol do the trick thanks juan carlos leon jleon scf usc edu jcleon ucs usc edu electrical computer major university computing services university of southern california los angeles ca
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2,015 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re date is stuck 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 gosh i think i just installed a virus it was called ms dos don t copy that floppy burn it i just love windows crash
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2,016 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re help tonight determine this mhz chip did it ever accrue to you to just call intel s number and ask gosh i think i just installed a virus it was called ms dos don t copy that floppy burn it i just love windows crash
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2,017 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitors i would realy like to hear from someone that has one of these nanao t i monitors that is driving it with a diamond speedstar x with the x set up to run at its khz hz output mode and realy driving the hell out of the monitor just woundering if the nanao t i would fall apart with poor low capabilities like my sony s did with the x driving their balls off sam gosh i think i just installed a virus it was called ms dos don t copy that floppy burn it i just love windows crash
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2,018 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re perfect mag mx f monitors article is last from r h tamuts tamu edu rithea hong newsgroups comp sys ibm pc hardware subject re perfect mag mx f monitors date sat apr a friend of mine got a mag of the above model and it had some distrotion so he sent it back unfortunately the replacement also was distorted i would bet it s a common problem the best advice i ve heard when buying monnitors is to actually look at the specific one you will buy as opposed to model since monitor manufacturing even from big names still tends to produce alot of monitors with visible defects rithea hong r h tamuts tamu edu end of file press return to quit just to name two at the top of my list of crap monitor makers are sony magnavox sam gosh i think i just installed a virus it was called ms dos don t copy that floppy burn it i just love windows crash
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2,019 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | multiport com boards info needed what or more com port boards are available for pcs we want standard com ports so no need to mention the expensive coprocessed ones they should either be able to share irqs or be able to use irqs thanks for any info
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2,020 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re isa bus pin question re diamond speedstar x the jp on the speedstar x is for those systems with boot up problems if your system fails to boot up proprtly please pull off the jumper block from jp this will not affect the proformance of the speedstar x this is what my manual says about jp i never knew that it was there but the card is a real ask kicker in my book it beats the hell out of my junk sony s to the point that i can t even use above x mode much sam some times an upgrage turns out to be a big overkill like driving a sony with a x that the monitor can t handle or installing ns simms and then finding out that your mother board doesn t have a cmos wait state adjustment to take advantage of the new ns simms that you just bought gosh i think i just installed a virus it was called ms dos don t copy that floppy burn it i just love windows crash
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2,021 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | philips monitor does anybody have an opinion on the philips dt monitor how does it compare to the nanao i am looking for a good like many other net ers and found a good price for the philips here some the specs sony trinitron tube digital micro control x ni dp x mm display area to hz refresh anti glare mpr ii auto scan khz why don t i ever see this monitor for sale one company in apr computer shopper what is the dc what is the best price around for this and how bout that mag i love my mag except for that little color alignment thing on the l r edges brian schaufenbuel brian j schaufenbuel there is no art which one government sooner learns helser halsted than that of draining money from the pockets of the ames ia people especially college students adam smith
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2,022 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | wangtek tape controller card revision e address irq wanted 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 upupup upupup upup upup open thanks for your time this posting is definitive bljeghbe chugh vaj blhegh wayne mcdougall keeper of the list of shows better than star trek tm ask me about the auckland festival of missions april i always change my mind when new evidence is available what method do you use
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2,023 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | sound blasters in machine is it possible to have sound blasters in machine would give your the equivalent of a sb pro but with stereo digitized sound the way creative labs price pro s in oz the price is equal i suppose you could set the i o addresses to and h but what about the dma channels any way what is this dma channel sharing hype does it share the sb and hardisk dma channels or something more esoteric
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2,024 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re date is stuck bsardis netcom com barry sardis writes kevin kosman uucp kevin o gorman writes anybody seen the date get stuck i m running ms dos with a menu system alive all the time the machine is left running all the time 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 i ve started to notice the same thing myself i m running dos and win so i can fix it from the windows control panel at times it is the date at others the clock seems to be running several minutes behind where it should be did i once hear that in order for the date to advance something like a clock has to make a get date system call apparently the clock hardware interrupt and bios don t do this date advance automatically the get date call notices that a midnight reset flag has been set and then then advances the date anybody with more info john bongiovanni systems analyst orbital engine company perth australia oecjtb oec orbital dialix oz au bongo alumni caltech edu opinions expressed are my own and not those of my organisation
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2,025 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | trident switch settings someone archive this t dip txt jeffrey e hundstad j gum vax mankato msus edu switch settings on the trident c xx xx xx j j xx vga graphics adapter layout dram j j j vga graphics adapter layout dram j j j j vga graphics adapter layout dram dip switches db connector for analog monitors db connector for ttl monitors note jumers j j j j j for layouts and j for layout video bios basic input ouput system tvga chip vga graphics chip edge connector for ibm pc xt pc at and compatible systems video dram up to mb feature connector for special applications video dac jumper blocks jp and jp board only note hardware option feature not present for all board versions switch settings for the switch dip box from figures switch scan rate on less than khz default off khz switch fast and slow address decode off fast address decode default on slow address decode switch bit data path off bit data path default on bit data path jumper settings j settings for irq xxx xxx off def on j settings for bus size detections x x x x autodetect standard interface def j settings for dram configuration two dram four dram eight dram j dram clock select xxx xxx mhz mhz two dram dram sw sw swich setings sw sw vga mode default on on ega mode off on cga mode on off mda hercules mode off off
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2,026 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | possible faq question about a uart organization compact solutions canberra act australia hello my question is could someone e mail me the names of manufactures of the and predecsor uarts i have only seen national semiconductor are one that i know of cheers ben ben elliston bachelor of engineering computer engineering university of canberra email tp jarrah canberra edu au also ellib cbr cpsg com au uucp uunet munnari sserve adfa oz au compsol root fidonet if a train station is where the train stops what s a workstation origin compact solutions canberra act australia
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2,027 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | w tseng card other vlb cards please hai in a few days i m going to buy a new motherboard with local bus ses it comes with a cirrus logic vlb card which has mb ram onboard it can do true color but i don t know what type of card it is i read that cirrus logic cards aren t exactly the fastes around my old system had a tseng i was pretty pleased with it so i consider buying a w tseng card i d like to know a few things how is the speed performance in dos windows unix os graphics text also compared to s cards for example what resolutions including no of colors does it support text graphics how many ram can be installed and what type of ram compatibility with old tseng support in software if anyone has any experience with this card good or bad i d like to know if you have a better alternative than the w please tell me about it for the people in holland kan iemand me misschien vertellen waar de w in nederland te verkrijg is het liefst in de omgeving van amsterdam thanks in advance erik stel estel cs vu nl
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2,028 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help with internet i know this isn t the exact right place to put this but im desperate i ll be going home for the summer and wont have direct access to my vax account my problem is i need a service that doesn t charge body parts vital organs or my first born son that allows me access to the internet all i really need is to be able to telnet to my school account and from there i can do anything i need to do any help will be greatly appreciated please e mail to dfmorgan acs harding edu
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2,029 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re date is stuck in article qte kn usenet ins cwru edu ab 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 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 my worth n ngo
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2,030 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re digitizing tablet questions rithea hong r h tamuts tamu edu wrote i m in the market for all small x or so digitizing tablet and would like any comments the main names i see are calcomp summagraphics and kurta what are the major differences any particular preference also what should i look for and what should i avoid thanks for any input you can provide rithea hong r h tamuts tamu edu ville v walveranta tel fax linda ave apt from finland oakland ca faxes automatically recognized usa email wil shell portal com
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2,031 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | my computer gets locked help a weird thing has happened to my computer lately it gets locked stops doing anything at any instance without any reason whatsover i might be using edit and gets locked or i might be at the prompt at the same occurs it happens almost once every times i connect the computer does anyone have the slight idea what s wrong with it if i try to use ctrl alt del after that no response i have to turn it off and back on again thanks any help will be really appreciated e mail if possible as sometimes i can t access this service enrique
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2,032 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | scsi on dos hello netters i have a question concerning scsi on dos i have a st scsi controller and two hard disks conected id s and i d like to connect a scsi streamer but i don t have software to access it does such a beast exist as shareware or pd also what if i want a third disk i know that dos only can see two two physical and four logical disks will it be possible to use extra disks thanks in advance ib ib hojme euromax dansk data elektronik a s vejle branch denmark telephone int fax int e mail ibh dde dk
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2,033 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi why vlb busmastering slows your system in article apr mnemosyne cs du edu smace nyx cs du edu scott mace writes have you ever seen what happens when you hook a busmaster controller to a vesa local bus it actually slows down your system if you don t belive what i said about busmastering and vlbus then pick up a back issue of pc week in whihc they tested vlbus eisa and isa busmastering cards is vlb busmastering bad because it stops the processor fetching from external cache as well as main memory while the vlb card has the bus how significant is the slowing effect
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2,034 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | cr rom drive recommendation hi all i would like to purchase cd rom drive the specs i would like to have is applicable to kodak multisession photo cd scsi interface compatible with adaptec b does not need any caddies cheaper if possible double speeded i believe there are no drives satisfying all of the above condition so i would like to know all of your opinion the above conditions are sorted by my priority i think nec cdr is a little bit expensive but it does satisfy almost all of the above conditions the problem is that i do not know the compatibility with b has someone succeeded to connect these nec drives to b i have heard a rumor that nec drive is incompatible with b adapter any suggestions are greatly appreciated thanks in advance kobayashi masaoki masaoki tky hp com
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2,035 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | faq on cyrix dlc reply to apoylis inode com is there a faq on cyrix dlc if i missed it could anyone please repost or email it to me thanks in advance alexander poylisher internet apoylis inode com fidonet blue wave qwk v
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2,036 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | atari mono and vga 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 thanx l l max brante m max tdb uu se l l l l l l l l l l institutionen f r teknisk databehandling l l l l l l uppsala universitet
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2,037 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re western digital hd info needed in article jester gun de michael jester gun de michael gerhards writes holly ks cs sd ae maccs mcmaster ca wrote my western digital also has three sets of pins on the back i am using it with another hard drive as well and the settings for the jumpers were written right on the circuit board of the wd drive ma sl the jumper is used if the other drive a conner cp xxx no jumper set drive is alone ma drive is master sl drive is slave yo yo yo the western digital hd will hve it marked either s m a put jumper on the s its printed on the circuitry underkneth it hope i helped i had the same problem bye later daze oharad wanda waiariki ac nz michael michael jester gun de michael gerhards preussenstrasse germany neuss voice
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2,038 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re weitek p future plans in article apr jetsun weitek com robert weitek com robert plamondon writes in article q n pinn m uniko uni koblenz de hodgen ozzy uni koblenz de wayne hodgen writes to sum up when an accelerated board with mb vram true colour x and a fast vga side is available under i will buy one me too what s funny is when we really can buy such a product it probably won t seem as mouth watering as it does today what no holograms get outta here i can wait cos i ve already got an accelerated card it does x but only colour you may mock me but such cards will be here quickly enough one of the odd things about the computer industry is that since you can always wait and get something better some people wait forever i know people who have deferred updating their original ibm pc for a decade because every time they look at what s available they see something better coming down the road i know people who ve dumped their pcs into the garage but haven t replaced them because they re afraid it isn t the right time to buy they just gave up using computers i only wait when the difference between my current system and the new stuff is big enough to warrant changing for instance i ll be upgrading my to a dx eisa vlb board rsn the performance difference under linux is great enough to be worthwhile at the same time i ll be buying a new graphic card and new scsi controller i ll be buying an s card cos they re fast enough i have x drivers for them and it ll have mb vram just like a weitek card it will also be much cheaper when affordable mb cards arrive i ll buy one personally my system at home needs a new disk subsystem a much larger monitor a super fast graphics board by you know who a new cpu board i probably won t keep much more than the case and the mouse come to think of it i don t like that mouse very much so when will i buy when my dream products hit the market no way i m gonna buy as soon as i have the money over the last year i ve done much the same but now i need a monitor more memory mb just ain t enough a gb disk gb and no space left oh well stay single don t smoke and you may afford it this year wayne hodgen hodgen infko uni koblenz de opinions c me intel sx uni koblenz unido infko hodgen keeper of the scrolls just rheinau voice defender of the net say koblenz fax his name is root no
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2,039 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re cards on a card motherboard carl christensen christen astro ocis temple edu wrote this may be the dumbest question of the year but is there a way to piggyback or expand a slot motherboard all bit to get the usual my case has slots for and i d like to get a scanner but with all my other cards i m already max d out i m hoping that a simple solution exists e g an adapter that turns i m not sure if this will work but how about using one of those t expanders used in the low profile cases they allow slots staggered on either side of the card you can install it in the last slot and then probably have or sideways slots this is actually how it is done in the low profile cases a standard motherboard the t connector in one slot and the expansion cards plugged into the t i guess you could do this at each end of the slots to add even more the t connectors are simply tracks with slots on them no electronics on it the only downside your case won t close but for a homebrew system that may not be a problem don t know about performance though i ll leave that discussion to the engineers gerry george anything good in life is either school of management boston univ illegal immoral or fattening internet ggeorge acs bu edu any item not in the above three compu erve compuserve com categories causes cancer in rats
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2,040 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | partition table disappeared help my computer won t recognise my disk after a reboot windows crash grrr are there any options to restore everything without losing data the drive previously had partitions but i do not remember the exact settings i have copies of the boot data from the disk pc tools rescue disk i do not want to lose my data mb ide drive do i have any options gerry george anything good in life is either school of management boston univ illegal immoral or fattening internet ggeorge acs bu edu any item not in the above three compu erve compuserve com categories causes cancer in rats
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2,041 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | small pc i m looking for a pc that is small and doesn t break apart if you drop it on the groud it doesn t have to have graphics text only will do just fine it doesn t have to be fast either will do i hope but you must stand a pretty hard enviroment without breaking apart jumnping on it or trying to use it outdoor while it is raining and so forth i need kb of memory and a convinient way of loading applications into it that i wrote myself floppy or somekind of writeable cartridge is there a pc like that and where can i get more info i know of the atari portfolio but it can t stand the rain marco seirio in real life sp marse caligula his s
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2,042 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re possible faq question about a uart in article qjp binn fmsrl srl ford com glang slee srl ford com gordon lang writes national semiconductor i don t know if other manufacturers make equivalent chips or not maybe national isn t even the original but they are the only one that i know about ns ns c ns c ns af ns c and ns c no argument on going direct to national see my previous post on this topic but some info regarding what you said above i don t know about the or but ns was the original source for the series and i strongly suspect that they developed the others first too i can also tell you that i m one of those who won t buy a uart made by anyone other than national semiconductor jim include std disclaimer h de n ial internet jim n ial mythical com j graham ieee org icbm n w amateur radio n ial w zbb ft walton beach fl amtor selcal nial e mail me for information about kamterm host mode for kantronics tncs
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2,043 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | non turbo speed just taken delivery of a mhz dx machine and very nice it is too one query the landmark speed when turbo is on is or something mhz thats not the problem the problem is the speed when turbo is off its 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 or mhz with turbo off cheers nic percival well that was a piece of cake eh k micro focus newbury piece of cake master radial slice of baked ext confection coefficient of relevance to nmp mfltd co uk key to time zero dr who
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2,044 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | need info on font cartridge for hp laserjet ii i am looking for good add on font cartridge for hp laserjet ii i found in pc magazine article iq enginnering and pacific data products are well known maker of cartridge for hp laserjet series but i couldn t find the model name of these products any suggestions please thanks in advance hakamata atsushi sony corporation osaki technology center
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2,045 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | and what s the difference except from clock frequency what are the differences between the various types of and processors the following is a list with what i know or perhaps only what i think i know can anybody extend correct true bit processor cache sx emulates with a bit bus true bit processor internal mathematical coprocessor correct internal cache correct how big extended instruction set in any way sx probably sorta like dx probably sorta like well it s not much but i m sure there is a lot of people out there who can add a lot of information post or email as you prefer lars j dal q what s the difference between a quantum email joedal dfi aau dk mechanic and an auto mechanic physics student at the a a quantum mechanic can get his car into university of aarhus the garage without opening the door denmark david kra
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2,046 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re booting from b drive hi i think vga copy can do what you need if you create a new floppy for your a drive that is the turn on the modify switch of vga copy when you boot using this diskette a message appears this is no system disk you can replace disk with another boot from harddisk or switch drives and reboot that is a becomes b b becomes a type your choice when you select the third item you can boot from b which is now called a seems to work very good for example booting drdos from the installation disks in format was no problem for a friend of mine i have only a a drive hope that helps robert p s vga copy is shareware so it s easy to get newest version seems to be robert fuhge haagstrasse erlangen tel privat email rtfuhge cip informatik uni erlangen de demnaechst erlangen wars are not for to see who is right but who is left robert fuhge haagstrasse erlangen tel privat email rtfuhge cip informatik uni erlangen de demnaechst erlangen wars are not for to see who is right but who is left
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2,047 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re recommendations for a local bus cached ide controller in article apr julian uwo ca wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes in article apr sol ctr columbia edu penev venezia rockefeller edu writes i have a maxtor mb on an isa ide controller although my machine is dx vlb i has the save transfer rate of mb s regardless of the variations of the isa bus speed i tested it with speed between mhz and mhz not any difference the problem is not the interface between the controller and the memory my advice buy megs of ram save and enjoy performance computer mhz bus isa mhz drive maxtor a 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 mhz i recently bought a micron dx vlb computer and the the local bus ide card was getting around k s transfer rates says norton i caled micron because this seemed pathetically slow and they said that norton xx doesn t recognize local bus and won t give accurate results i was told i would need norton 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 b fed frank shea learn of the skillful frank shea he that teaches himself fas ultb isc rit edu hath a fool for his master rochester institute of technology ben franklin
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2,048 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re scsi on dos in article apr dde dk ibh dde dk ib hojme writes i have a question concerning scsi on dos i have a st scsi controller and two hard disks conected id s and i d like to connect a scsi streamer but i don t have software to access it does such a beast exist as shareware or pd also what if i want a third disk i know that dos only can see two two physical and four logical disks will it be possible to use extra disks contrary to what others might have thought i actually did have a scsi drive once it was the seagate n and the st controller i found that the controller couldn t keep up with a interleave so the best i could do with the drive was a interleave and a data transfer of about k sec i have had that drive controller coexist with mfm rll and ide drives because the st bios will kinda muscle itself in there with no help needed from the computer s bios dos will see many logical drives much more than i ve had up to i ve often wondered how many scsi drives you could hang off a st
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2,049 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | vesa local bus hi i was wondering if anyone out there could point me to where i can get the vesa specifications or any relevant books on this subject regards jimmy
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2,050 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | trident cs drivers for win hello i ve got an old trident cs svga card but lacking suitable drivers for windows the drivers for the series seem to be incompatible does anyone have an idea of where to get these drivers address for an ftp site would be nice thanks in advance jouni jouni marttila yo kyl b turku finland jmarttila abo fi jmarttila finabo abovax jmarttila jjmartti utu fi pgp key available via finger jmarttila abo fi
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2,051 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re and what s the difference in joedal dfi aau dk joedal dfi aau dk lars joedal writes except from clock frequency what are the differences between the various types of and processors the following is a list with what i know or perhaps only what i think i know can anybody extend correct true bit processor cache no cache sx emulates with a bit bus true bit processor internal mathematical coprocessor correct correct internal cache correct how big kb extended instruction set in any way was it six instructions sx probably sorta like dx without the mathematical coprocessor fpu dx probably sorta like actually the you described above is dx there is no separate nor either this is for intel processors does anyone have a complete list with cyrix and ibm products anssi anssi saari s ee tut fi tampere university of technology finland europe
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2,052 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re rockwell chipset for s any good tdbear dvorak amd com thomas d barrett writes in article im u c camelot im u c camelot bradley edu joe zbiciak writes what s the word on the chipset is this a rom bug specific to a specific brand using the rockwell or is it the rockwell chipset itself there were an assortment of firmware problems but that is pretty much expected with any fax modem talking with a different fax or modem which may have also been revised or is new i m pretty much oblivious to any current firmware problems so you ll have to get it from someone else someone else could you please comment on that i have just bought a twincom dfi which has a rockwell chipset it wasn t cheap so i would like to hear of problems i m likely to run into however i can tell you to stay clear of any board which uses the rockwell mpu as opposed to the dpu for an internal implementation this is because the mpu used speed buffering instead of having a interface without the interface the number of interrupts are still the same and thus may get dropped under multitasking conditions like in windows as far as i know the speed buffering works ok for external modems if a is used on the internal serial port board phew i was lucky the twincom internal version has a a and one of the rockwell chips is marked rc dp but still i would like to hear more of the above mentioned firmware problems niels
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2,053 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help can somone explain to me all the stuff about modems like v v hst usrobotics why cheap can t cannot connect fast to some modems just explain to me everything thanks we must believe in free will we have no choice blue wave qwk v
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2,054 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi here we go again in apr mnemosyne cs du edu smace nyx cs du edu scott mace writes in article apr julian uwo ca wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes i almost got a hernia laughing at this one you ll probably get one when you realize that your vesa super dooper local bus ultra high tech controller sucks if anything scsi on a pc will be obsolete killed off by vesa local with any luck pc bus archeitecture will be doen any with by sbus have you ever seen what happens when you hook a busmaster controller to a vesa local bus it actually slows down your system bus ide it must be real nice to get shafted by bucks for the extra cost of a scsi drive then pay another for a scsi controller yeah there is absolutely no use for vlb except for video graphics and no ide could possibly take advantage the vlb because it runs at mhz and bits do people forget that the ide was specifically designed to interface directly with the at isa bus we ve seen ides come out for eisa xt isa and now even mca but at all times it was a bit standard running at somewhere near mhz when you run an ide off of the vlb there s no way that you re running it at mhz it would burn up of course same goes for scsi esdi whatever none of them run at cpu speed the only way to gain advantage with a vlb ide is to hook it up to a caching controller i suspect it would be much much better to get a software disk cache instead since you get write caching as well because you have an ide and no one makes ide disks that big i ve seen some fuji ide drives going as high as g yousuf khan
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2,055 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | can t get x to work w m ati ultra pro i am unable to get my gateway dx to run windows in x i ordered a m ati ultra pro and i m pretty sure the m is really there because i can select x x but no matter what i do with the flex program in the ati s program group x remains ghosted out i have windows build of the drivers dos the drivers were installed by gateway not by me so perhaps there s a file missing from the hard drive it runs x just fine i did go into the desktop window and select x sometimes it refuses ghosted out other time it accepts it but when i hit ok and re enter desktop it s back to x at no time does it unghost x in the main flex window help keith mancus mancus butch jsc nasa gov n wvr mancus sweetpea jsc nasa gov black powder and alcohol when your states and cities fall when your back s against the wall leslie fish
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2,056 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | dos question could some kind soul please email ma a response since i don t have much time to read this group question i have a mb hard drive which currently has mb left how much space will doublespace allow me to have i have a w mb ram if it matters thanks in advance jason jason brown cs au decster uta edu fav player ruben sierra
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2,057 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re can t get x to work w m ati ultra pro in article apr aio jsc nasa gov mancus sweetpea jsc nasa gov keith mancus writes i am unable to get my gateway dx to run windows in x i ordered a m ati ultra pro and i m pretty sure the m is really there because i can select x x but no matter what i do with the flex program in the ati s program group x remains ghosted out i have windows build of the drivers dos the drivers were installed by gateway not by me so perhaps there s a file missing from the hard drive it runs x just fine i did go into the desktop window and select x sometimes it refuses ghosted out other time it accepts it but when i hit ok and re enter desktop it s back to x at no time does it unghost x in the main flex window help maybe you need to go into mach install and set a refresh rate for x you might need to use custom monitor option dan daniel matthew coleman internet dcoleman ccwf cc utexas edu dcoleman utxvms cc utexas edu the university of texas at austin decnet utxvms dcoleman electrical computer engineering bitnet dcoleman utxvms bitnet
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2,058 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | question about fastmicro i thought i read that fastmicro was having some financial difficulties is this true i can t seem to find the posting about it and was wondering if someone can confirm this thanks eric sebastian
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2,059 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | what disk drives are out there when sw is delivered you will often always get k diskettes if you opt for the inch format how big a tage of existing pc xt at ps s have these low capacity drives as their only diskette station o o ooo ooo richard soderberg md the karolinska institute systems analyst mic kibic voice library and fax medical information center snail po box doktorsringen c s stockholm s stockholm email richard micb mic ki se sweden
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2,060 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help with magitronic bit memory card needed hi i m busy resurrecting some old machines hey they re cheap and they work and would be grateful for any help with the following card magitronic full length bit memory only card has room for rows of k dips for a total of mb ram has an position dip switch on it presumably for addressing does any kind soul out there have any docs or drivers for this beast i d be disgustingly grateful thanks lee lee tosspot sv com
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2,061 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | bit mfm hd controller wanted hi again okay am getting an old at type together as well anyone have a bit mfm hdc they d like to sell wd is preferred but adaptec and dtk are fine too for that matter almost anything so long as it works lee lee tosspot sv com
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2,062 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | cga card monitor wanted and again title says it all why lee lee tosspot sv com
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2,063 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | serial multiport card for sale selling arnet multiport card four serial ports on one card s with docs and drivers for os and dos works great with unix flavors too aggregate is probably around kb offers also willing to swap for monitor lee lee tosspot sv com
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2,064 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re scsi on dos in article apr julian uwo ca wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes it was the seagate n and the st controller i found that the controller couldn t keep up with a interleave so the best i could do with the drive was a interleave and a data transfer of about k sec according to what others have told me the st n is difficult to run at the interleave even though seagate claims it i have a non pc system don t ask what it is you probably haven t heard of it that is built around scsi and it can t do either brian bcwhite sunee uwaterloo ca in theory theory and practice are the same in practice they re not
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2,065 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re date is stuck in article qte kn usenet ins cwru edu ab 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 we have plenty of computer labs where the computers are left on all the time i don t see any shorter lifespan than the ones we have in the offices which does get turned off at the end of the day in fact some of the computers in the labs have outlived some of the same ones in the offices but it goes both ways so can t conclude anything thomas
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2,066 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help with dtk i o plus ii card needed i am trying to help a friend of mine get the second serial port on his dtk i o plus ii card working and it does not want to cooperate the documentation is no help at all as an example it says the serial port can be changed to com from com by moving jumpers but does not say what jumpers to move there are banks of jumpers the first one is labeled as follows c c s p p g the second bank is labeled irq and has the following labels c s s c s i have determined that the c c jumpers tell it to address the first serial port as com or com the p p jumpers tell it to use the printer port as lpt or lpt i am guessing that the g enables the game port and the s should enable the second serial port but i can t get it to work i have tried numerous setting on the irq bank without success i assume that this bank must tell the card which irq s to use for both ports but i don t know how any suggestions would be greatly appreciated ebd elliot dierksen is that a real poncho i mean is that a mexican poncho or is that a sears poncho hmmm no foolin f zappa w e dierksen att com h elliot alfred uucp
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2,067 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitors mikey sgi com mike yang writes in article qslfs bm access digex net rash access digex com wayne rash writes i also reviewed a new nanao the f iw which has just been released what s the difference between the f i and the new f iw i m about to buy a gateway system and was going to take the f i upgrade should i get the f iw instead mike yang silicon graphics inc mikey sgi com the f iw is optimized for windows it powers down when the screen blanker appears it powers down with you turn your computer off and it meets all of the swedish standards it s also protected against emi from adjacent monitors personally i think the f i is more bang for the buck right now
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2,068 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | what s the diff between mouse sys com what s the difference between loading mouse com in autoexec bat and doing device mouse sys in config sys which one is better thanks a lot enrique
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2,069 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | fastmicro out of business i heard fastmicro went out of business is this true they don t answer their number it s
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2,070 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re and what s the difference in article joedal dfi aau dk joedal dfi aau dk lars joedal says except from clock frequency what are the differences between the various types of and processors the following is a list with what i know or perhaps only what i think i know can anybody extend correct true bit processor cache no cache also called dx sx emulates with a bit bus it has the same internals as the is a real bit processor just has bit hookup to the outside world true bit processor internal mathematical coprocessor correct yes optimized internal internal cache correct how big yes k extended instruction set in any way yes but only a few instructions nothing noteworthy sx probably sorta like with no coprocessor dx probably sorta like nope just another name for the frank racis fwr psuvm psu edu fwr eclu psu edu computers are useless they can only give answers i will not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for my programs wjbc
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2,071 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | how is a loopback connector made 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
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2,072 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re help need diagnostic disk for my compaq deskpro in article apr clam rutgers edu steuer clam rutgers edu robert steuer writes my emergency management group was given about compaq deskpro s from a local company as they were outdated problem is though it seems that the cmos settings cannot be set without this diagnostic disk we get this error msg on boot up system options not set run setup insert diagnostic diskette in drive a if someone has this disk please e mail me thank you robert m steuer amateur radio kf ek n foa epa pa usa na rutgers university internet steuer clam rutgers edu vhf repeater system cherry hill nj kf ek repeater mhz computer operating system os why settle for less robert you have probably solved your problem by now anyway if you can get your hands on qa plus version maybe others as well it will let you write the compaq cmos settings i know because i just did it i was just about to search for such a diagnostic disk when my brother in law fixed an old deskpro with it you might try the simtel mirror ftp sites george
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2,073 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitors in article qulqa hp access digex net rash access digex com wayne rash writes the f iw is optimized for windows it powers down when the screen blanker appears it powers down with you turn your computer off and it meets all of the swedish standards it s also protected against emi from adjacent monitors thanks for the info personally i think the f i is more bang for the buck right now how much more does the f iw cost mike yang silicon graphics inc mikey sgi com
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2,074 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | us robotics info wanted could someone please give me some info regarding the usr sportsters that have recently dropped below i was going to buy a used courier v bis external without fax for but now i see the sportster with fax is selling below brand new are these good modems what warranty do they carry any info very much appreciated kevin hollyk mcmail cis mcmaster ca
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2,075 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re cyrix dlc cpu anyone using this cpu what is your impressions of the cpu performance compatability there is a benchmark program called comptest said cyrix cpus have a bug so they cannot run the program also may be nextstep regards desmond li lut uk
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2,076 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | new svga card hi all hardware netters i ve seen recently on some magazines advertising a new trident graphics card call cl the ad said it s new and faster how is it compare to tseng et btw which is the fastest non accelerated svga on the market any info or benchmark are welcome thanks in advance regards desmond li lut uk
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2,077 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | g k jumbo backup problems i have a colorado memory systems jumbo tape backup unit in my gateway v tower system i have found the supplied backup capability to be fairly unreliable in approx cases out of i have had the backup fail at one point or another often hanging in the middle of writing the tape seek errors drive communication errors seem to be most common i use the dos backup software from colorado memory systems should i return the drive get some better backup software reformat the tapes am using cms tapes any hints would be appreciated this stuff is to time consuming to do over and over again until it cooperates steve norman snorman den mmc com
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2,078 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | need info of maxtor sy scsi jumper id setting i got a harddisk shipped with an ide specification but not the scsi spec would someone tell me how to set the jumper on the harddrive thanks please email response philip sinn sinn carson u washington edu university of washington
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2,079 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | mitsumi and sb pro hi i just bought a mitsumi cd rom drive and a sb pro soundcard the pin outs on the cd rom line out and the sb pro cd in are not the same i am considering taking the rca output jacks on the mitsumi interface card and routing them to the line in input on the sb pro will this work with multi media software that uses the cd rom and the sb pro or do i need to go to the cd in pins on the sb pro thanks john john manning opinions expressed are my own j manning csc enet dec com i do not represent digital equip
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2,080 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | vesa lb what is bus mastering i read an article about the benefits of a vlb motherboard it said that a true vlb board supports bus mastering otherwise it is just as good as an isa motherboard doesn t all vlb motherboard support bus mastering i just bought a vlb and the tech manual does not explicitly state the words local bus mastering but it said it supports bus master and slave modes are these terms synonymous thanks ps please reply by e mail as i don t read this newgroup often
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2,081 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | winjet accelerator card anyone familiar with this video card what chipset does the winjet use s as i am in the market for a vlg video card what is the best chipset among s cirrus logic and tseng lab ati is out of the question too expensive thanks
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2,082 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | diamond stealth giving winmarks i have just installed a diamond stealth isa card in a dx system with k cache and megs of memory that gets about a si cpu benchmark rating using the x x color driver under windows i am getting a winbench winmarks rating of only about million since i have heard that others get to million for this card i assume that something is very wrong with my setup what are some possible causes of the card slowing down like this i ran the qualitas asq diagnostic program on memory and i noted the following memory timings on my machine asq v by qualitas system analysis mon apr am page access timing hex kb kb access speed ratio start start size time us a b c c e f note two things on this chart the video memory appears to be many orders of magnitude slower than system memory are there wait states being inserted here and what would cause that the ems page frame seems to be ridiculously slow even though it is being mapped to the fast xms memory in my system through emm what s going on there note that my stealth s video bios at c c ff is being shadowed through the ami bios any ideas on what might be happening here will estes internet westes netcom com
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2,083 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | cd rom drives has someone a list of cd rom s with no scsi interface and if known how much they are present in the market please mail direcktly as i am not reguarly reading the group i ll post a summary if wanted thanks ihno ihno krumreich phone u u n n iii x x synerix gmbh email ihno generics ka sub org u u nn n i x x bach strasse fax u u n n n i x d w karlsruhe u u n nn i x x uuu n n iii x x ihno krumreich phone u u n n iii x x synerix gmbh email ihno generics ka sub org u u nn n i x x
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2,084 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | motherboards hard drives i have just a few quick questions does anyone here have a dlc system a cyrix dx any problems with it second how much should a cyric dlc motherboard with no ram run me rd should a total amatuer like myslef be able to perform a motherboard swap without the aid of a technician or is it beyond hope th i hear that some if not all hard drives may require reformatting if you switch them to another computer or motherboard as the case may be is there any truth to this any replies would be greatly appreciated
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2,085 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re umbdr zip any later version fombaron ufrima imag fr fombaron marc writes is there a more recent version of umbdr zip because it doesn t work on my machine my motherboard has symphony sl c chips and they say it will be supported in the later versions so is it out thank you for helping marc the last i heard the author was having some problems in his immediate family and had delayed the continuation of development for a time this was some months ago it s a shame the driver is the best memory manager i have found anywhere it doesn t require v mode like qemm so it works with ultima it doesn t take any memory runs then exits if only the emm provider were a little faster and more stable tmcreek eos ncsu edu these views respresent no one now you creek tm aza csc ncsu edu even i won t claim them are here include std funny stuff h this is where i include some witty tripe
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2,086 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | dec mt adaptec scsi comm conflict i have a dec nt dx that has an adaptec scsi controller hard disk and cd rom drive when i add a comm ethernet card c and reboot the system i receive an error message that a boot device cannot be found pull the comm card and reboot everything is fine i ve moved the controller and comm card to various slots different positions slot before the controller slot after the controller with the same result dec hasn t responded to the problem yet any help would be appreciated edward t keegan facility director e mail keegan cs yale edu yale university computer science department phone prospect street room fax new haven ct
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2,087 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re diamond stealth giving winmarks in article westesc qvap bgj netcom com westes netcom com will estes writes i have just installed a diamond stealth isa card in a dx system with k cache and megs of memory that gets about a si cpu benchmark rating using the x x color driver under windows i am getting a winbench winmarks rating of only about million since i have heard that others get to million for this card i assume that something is very wrong with my setup what are some possible causes of the card slowing down like this most importantly which winbench version are you using on my local bus ati graphics ultra pro i ve gotten various winbench scores from million to million winmarks depending on the version winbench gives the most optimistic scores gives the least a winmark rating is meaningless without a corresponding version number dan daniel matthew coleman internet dcoleman ccwf cc utexas edu dcoleman utxvms cc utexas edu the university of texas at austin decnet utxvms dcoleman electrical computer engineering bitnet dcoleman utxvms bitnet
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2,088 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re recommendations for a local bus cache in article sol ctr columbia edu penev rockefeller edu penio penev writes on apr 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 dx motherboard what are good options for this preferably under it must also work under os and be compatible with stacker and other disk compression s w i have a maxtor mb on an isa ide controller although my machine is dx vlb i has the save transfer rate of mb s regardless of the variations of the isa bus speed i tested it with speed between mhz and mhz not any difference the problem is not the interface between the controller and the memory my advice buy megs of ram save and enjoy performance penio penev x w internet penev venezia rockefeller edu disclaimer all oppinions are mine i also have a dx and a maxtor i have a local bus ide controller generic and i get kb s i tried swapping my local bus ide controller for an isa ide controller and my transfer rate went to kb s the specs for this drive show a maximum platter to controller transfer rate of mb s i dont know how to get there from here the local bus interface got me a little but certainly not as much as i had hoped i am also looking for a way to improve my disk performance but im not convinced that the controller is the bottleneck although im willing to entertain the possibility that it is i am already running a big main memory disk cache so im not really interested in this solution either chris brinton teradyne inc brinton icd teradyne com my opinions are my own but you re welcome to them
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2,089 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re winjet accelerator card gv fragante fragante unixg ubc ca wrote anyone familiar with this video card what chipset does the winjet use s as i am in the market for a vlg video card what is the best chipset among s cirrus logic and tseng lab ati is out of the question too expensive thanks winjet is not a video card it s printer accelerator manufactured by lasermaster eden prairie mn willy ville v walveranta tel fax linda ave apt from finland oakland ca faxes automatically recognized usa email wil shell portal com
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2,090 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re help installing second ide drive in article qn iv darwin sura net wbarnes sura net bill barnes writes recently my cousin got a second internal ide drive a seagate mb i can look up the model number if it s important and i ve been trying to help him install it i ve got a vested interest since my machine s busted and i have to use his until i get mine fixed he already has a seagate mb ide hd again i forget the model number but i can find out anyway i can t seem to get the bloody thing up i ve managed to get one or the other drive up with the other disconnected but not both at the same time whenever i try the thing hangs during bootup never gets past the system test the ide controller s instruction sheet says it supports two drives i think i ve configured the cmos correctly the power s plugged in properly i even learned about the master slave relationship that two hds are supposed to have didn t know pcs were into s m and i think i configured the jumpers properly the mb one is the master the new mb one is the slave the only thing i can think of is maybe i m doing the cabling wrong i ve tried several combinations controller master slave controller slave master master controller slave none of them worked unfortunately i can t think of any others another possibility is that the mb one is already partitioned into two seperate drives c and d and the cmos asks for c drive and d drive setup info rather than drive and drive like most others i ve seen could this be confusing things so i need help the drive came bereft of any docs except for some info for the cmos setup the controller has a little piece of paper about the size of an index card i cannibalized the cable it s one of those with a connector at each end and the one in the middle so it looks like a serial connection now i be lost many many thanks in advance this is practically an emergency i have two papers to do on this thing for monday help william barnes suranet operations wbarnes sura net voice fax disclaimer i don t speak for suranet and they don t speak for me i ve been told by our local computer guru that you can t do this unless you perform a low level format on your existing hard drive and set your system up for two hard drives from the beginning i took him at his word and i have not tried to find out any more about it because i m not going to back everything up just to add another hdd if anyone knows for sure what the scoop is i would like to know also thanks in advance also bill willis
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2,091 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help my esdi is posessed by demons help i really got ripped off and i need some help unripping myself i bought a maxtor mb esdi hdd from hi tech for then paid to get it repaired for about another here s the deal the thing works fine it low level formats etc without any bad spots at all and then jaws music sectors start going bad eek one at a time norton disk doctor keeps marking some u and some c that fixes it for about minutes then next day when i run ndd on it again no dice more uncorrectable and correctable sectors ahhhhhuuuurrrrrrggggghhhhh so i fugure ok ndd s just not being thurough enough i ll use spinrite i heard that works well what happens spinrite goes and returns the clusters to active use ahhhuuuurrrrrrggggghhhh ndd undoes it of course the problem seams to be getting worse and worse however when the hdd is low level formatted again the problem goes away for a while only to return in a day or so i m so pissed off right now i m considering buying another hdd and i really can t afford it i m using smartdrive and windows i m not using the bit disk access though i know that can create problems the disk is using the second option to trick the controller into thinking it s got less then cyls and everything else selected is standard maybe i need to use a different head skew or something i don t know anyone who knows how to fix this problem please tell me how help gt designing tommorow the night before with yesterday s technology
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2,092 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help ten beeps with ami bios i have a motherboard with ami bios i haven t located the little motherboard manual yet and suddenly it s giving me 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 beeps and sits there anybody know what beeps means thanks
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2,093 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help with motherboard w no docs well i was told that my last message came through without anything in it so i ll try again i have a leading edge sx with a flaky motherboard and a friend game me one to replace it but he didn t have any docs for the mother board it s a cheertron board with award bios and has a sticker on it that says vi t t on it i can tell what most of the switches on the blue blocks mean except fdc and sh but i have no idea about all the jumpers i ve replaced hard drives and modems and installed math co processes but this is a bit out of my league and without the docs i m really lost if anyone could give me some help on this i d really appreciate it i don t get on news regularly so if you can help please e mail me at passman world std com thanks shirl
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2,094 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help with c and ncsa telnet help i m trying to configure ncsa telnet v to work with a c ethernet board i can use ftp fine but whenever i attempt to use telnet the machine hangs with a blank screen and a blinking green cursor any ideas please e mail lepper maat mct anl gov mjlepper mtu edu
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2,095 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re diamond stealth giving winmarks does your stealth have a row of dip switches on the back plane if so you have the older revision a board and the winmark results are absolutely normal the later revision b board benchmarks at to million winmarks at least mine does in dx toy v
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2,096 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | q connor pc jumper settings anyone who knows this answer off hand please answer me by e mail quickly there is a pair of jumpers on one side and a set of or on the other end one is labeled sync and one cd and e e e whhich do i need to short or disconnect to get drive to operate in slave mode give me a label or geographic label as they have quite a few jumpers and i don t wanna try the trial and error method i am using ide i think this drive is scsi compatible too jimmy jimmyhua usc edu
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2,097 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | help needed in setting up ncsa telnet w appletalk or phonenet okay i m trying to install ncsa telnet on a couple okay a whole bunch of machines they re all true blue ibms with either fallon phonenet cards or dastar cards i belive those names are correct well the docs for telnet say that it ll run over an appletalk driver but i ve had little success if anyone has succesfully installed telnet w appletalk i d like some help with the config file for telnet btw please reply via e mail if possible thanks jeremy jeremy zawodny computer science undergrad bowling green state university jzawodn andy bgsu edu student computer consultant thrilled os user
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2,098 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | q scsi ide i e or more hard drives please response directly to me luoma binah cc brandeis edu by email if there are a sufficient number of interesting responses i will post a summary on april or i have waded through the mass of scsi ide posting but i missed any answers to a question posted early on has anyone successfully put both scsi and ide hard drives on the same system i am particularly interested in having the scsi as the boot drive for those who have managed this feat i would appreciate a bit more information such as what drives which scsi controller and if possible what motherboard bios plus any other relevant info thanks in advance robert luoma luoma binah cc brandeis all flames will be stored on my worn drive
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2,099 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re recommendations for a local bus cache penio penev penev rockefeller edu wrote i have a maxtor mb on an isa ide controller although my machine is dx vlb i has the save transfer rate of mb s regardless of the variations of the isa bus speed i tested it with speed between mhz and mhz not any difference the problem is not the interface between the controller and the memory chris brinton brinton icd teradyne com wrote i also have a dx and a maxtor i have a local bus ide controller generic and i get kb s i tried swapping my local bus ide controller for an isa ide controller and my transfer rate went to kb s the specs for this drive show a maximum platter to controller transfer rate of mb s i dont know how to get there from here the local bus interface got me a little but certainly not as much as i had hoped i am also looking for a way to what is the deal with the ide transfer rates is anybody getting throughput anywhere close to the platter controller rate i haven t seen anything even close to the mb sec limit of the ide interface these drives are non interleaved aren t they here are the rates i get sequential read msdos c program that uses bios calls to read sector blocks sequentially from outside first track inward mhz bus mhz bus maxtor lxt kb sec kb sec quantum lps kb sec kb sec disk buffer read same c program but re reads the same block repeatedly so in effect is reading the ram buffer on the drive mhz bus mhz bus maxtor lxt kb sec kb sec quantum lps kb sec kb sec coretest v transfer rate seems to agree with above mhz bus mhz bus maxtor lxt kb sec kb sec quantum lps kb sec kb sec i managed to get hold of the quantum lps at product manual and it goes into excrutiating detail describing how the bits get from the platter through the controller and out the ide interface nowhere do i see anything like after the bits are whipped of the platter at high speed they sit around in a buffer to thaw before they are sent to the host even though i swear that s whats happening here are some relevent quotes from the manual data is transferred from the disk to the read buffer at a rate of mb s maximum mb s minimum my calculations show kb sec maximum and kb sec minimum disk spins at rpm with sectors per track on the outside and on the inside single burst errors of up to bits within one sector can be corrected on the fly in real time as they occur allowing a high degree of data integrity with no impact to the drive s performance i take this to mean error correction isn t the bottleneck for page mode operations the data transfer rate to and from the buffer ram is up to mb s this high transfer rate allows the at interface ic to communicate over the at bus at a data transfer rate of mb s while the dcs simultaneously controls disk to ram transfers so the thing can even do it s cache pre fetch while it s sending the requested sector it has kb read buffers for pre fetching i guess you could call that a cache so when i do a sequential read on the outer tracks why am i getting a measly kb sec when i should be getting around mb sec any of you hard disk engineers out there know wondering why my disks are so slow david o o ooo ooo david stam linux the choice of a gnu generation stam netcom com un x x r openlook gcc tex free
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