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2,100 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | will somebody create a messie dos faq please was dos question hi there i think it is time to create a ms dos faq since lots of questions about it are actually flooding the net i won t be able to write it my self because of the lack of time knowledge experience perry egelmeers
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2,101 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi here we go again in article apr mnemosyne cs du edu smace nyx cs du edu scott mace writes 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 do you recall which issue this was in i posted a message related to this a while back to provoke an argument so that i could get the straight dope on this this article would probably give me all the definitive answers that i want ed stasic estasic ic sunysb edu
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2,102 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re winjet accelerator card in c r ya ef unix portal com wil shell portal com ville v walveranta writes winjet is not a video card it s printer accelerator manufactured by lasermaster eden prairie mn i know there s a winjet for the laserjet and there s also a winjet accelerator video card this is probably not available in the us but i am sure it is being marketed in canada i thought you guys over there would have heard some thing about it
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2,103 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | pentium clock counts does anyone have a list of the clock counts for pentium instructions or know if the integer mul is down to tick thanks hw stockman hwstock sandia llnl gov
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2,104 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | amd i clones now legal in us a friend of mine called me on the phone and told me he was wathcing cnn and saw a report that the ruling prohibiting amd from selling their i clones has been thrown out making it legal for amd to ship in the us can anyone out there verify this thanks in advance phil
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2,105 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | need pinouts for ext db floppy connectors please hi all this is my first posting so be gentle i have a zenith external floppy which has a db connector and i d like to use it with my sharp and toshiba laptops which also take a db for their ext floppy but it doesn t work i have the pinouts for the zenith and would like to make adapters so i can use it does anyone have pinouts for these or other manufacturers db ext floppy connectors i would greatly appreciate this info either by e mail or fax thanks very much jeff aka flyboy coyote trw com fax jeff wright flyboy spf trw com phone fax trw one space park o redondo beach ca
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2,106 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re diamond stealth giving winmarks hi when posting winmark results it is a good idea to give the version of winbench that you used to obtain the scores as well as the resolution that you tested and the version of the drivers eric balog balog eniac seas upenn edu
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2,107 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re uarts was uucico for windows turtle west darkside com fred waller writes s are not stupid actually they are in the sense that hardware solutions to a software problem are not proper a programmer s function much deleted amazing i could not find one reference to waffle in all of this followups redirected out russell schulz russell alpha ersys edmonton ab ca ersys rschulz shad c
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2,108 | 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 keith i had a problem getting colors i was stuck with even though the flex stuff said i was at i solved it by entering the advanced window on the flex program pannel and changing the color palette sorry for the vaugeness i hope it helps some btw i have a gw v and m ati gup matt sexton sexton claes space lockheed com
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2,109 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitors mikey eukanuba wpd sgi com mike yang writes 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 i think the difference is about dollars but i could be wrong these things change between press time and publication
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2,110 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re how much should i pay for a scsi cable with or connectors in t y b w w hub parallan com danj hub parallan com dan jones writes also i seem to remember a posting saying that the scsi spec calls for foot between devices on the cable but most cables you get internal don t meet the spec scsi ii draft proposal rev h section single ended cable which is in the cable requirements section has an implementor s note stub clustering should be avoided stubs should be spaced at least meters apart for the non technical stubs are scsi devices however also be aware that implementor s notes are basicly recommendations they are not part of the spec as others have noted many vendors including sgi violate this indeed the main point is to reduce impedance changes and therefore reflections and therefore noise on the bus let no one tell me that silence gives consent dave olson because whoever is silent dissents silicon graphics inc maria isabel barreno olson sgi com
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2,111 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | can i have printers on a pc lan i have recently plunged into pc world i have been using amigas before trying to establish a network lan here that could use different printers panasonic kxp for printing receipts and okidata ol for letters etc is it at all possible in this world i know when using unix etc i can specify which printer to print from but i am not sure how pcs would handle that if they can t then i guess i ll leave peeeceees for good and move on to unix mubashir cheema sparco communications ph lagalarie fax russell street suite email mac ra msstate edu starkville ms
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2,112 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | avi file format hi would someone please email and post the avi microsoft file format i wish to do some research using this format as there are disks available with video clips it is interesting because it interleaves sound and video thank you mark gregory lecturer m gregory rmit edu au ph fax royal melbourne institute of technology department of communication and electronic engineering p o box v melbourne victoria australia mark gregory lecturer m gregory rmit edu au ph fax royal melbourne institute of technology department of communication and electronic engineering p o box v melbourne victoria australia
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2,113 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | utility to switch cap locks ctrl keys being a big fan of the official ibm keyboards i have a ps keyboard attached to my clone computer i want to know if there is a software utility out there that can be used to switch the locations of the ctrl and cap locks keys even better does ibm or any third party make ctrl and cap lock key replacements that can be used to visually switch the keys as well will estes internet westes netcom com
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2,114 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | can t set com i have been unable to get com to work diagnostic programs such as msd show nothing installed i think the software options are ok is there a known hardware conflict and or workaround for this problemand cd rom system is a g k dx tower with ati video card ports are set as follows on board coma com irq to external device internal modem com irq dfio port card primary port com irq mouse on board com b com irq does not work i have run this from a boot disk with only command com to eliminate softwar any suggestions before i call technical support john siegel k bnc cbnewsh att com jas hrollie hr att com
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2,115 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | run box w o cover b i am interested in getting the pulse of this group regarding b extended operation of my g k v with the cover removed b from the enclosure there are a of reasons i am considering b this including quick access to jumpers during complex i o card b setups b my concern is that without a complete enclosure to direct the b cooling flow of air from the fan hot spots may develop on my b motherboard or elsewhere if you have an adequate supply of air moving over the system most offices or homes have positive ventilation you can generally run a system without the cover for extended periods without a problem i m talking about completely removing the cover not just leaving the slots uncovered however the biggest reason you have a cover to begin with is rf sheilding operating a system without the full cover may create problems with other equipment such as your neighbor s tv or ham radio station very much a no no in the eyes of the law slmr a remember they re only tools not a way of life via dlgqwk v a
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2,116 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re umbdr zip any later version
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2,117 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | dos i know of two people who have horrer stories about the dos that s of the people i know with dos both have had to reformat their disks and start over one had drive d compress and work fine only to compress c to have the thing choke spit out an unintelligable warning and then hang all that was left on either drive was autoexec bat and config sys calls to microsoft only met with busy signals after reformatting the drive i m not sure if he had the guts to reinstall or stay with a known entity the other may have been a marginal drive however his upgrade failed he had to format a floppy disk at format the drive and then reinstall i make now claims since i was not driving at the time however be careful and make sure you back important things up i am interested in any other people with similar or success stories
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2,118 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | hayes external ac pins hello i have a hayes moden with no cables or manuals the modem requires a source of v ac but i do not know how to connect the power source to the pin connector i know that the top pin is the ground so i would guess that the other two are the ac pins right if you have any hints please e mail me i really need help thanks duc n
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2,119 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re amd i clones now legal in us excerpts from netnews comp sys ibm pc hardware apr amd i clones now legal by poe wharton upenn edu a friend of mine called me on the phone and told me he was wathcing cnn and saw a report that the ruling prohibiting amd from selling their i clones has been thrown out making it legal for amd to ship in the us can anyone out there verify this it s true i read about it from an article in clarinet can t send it here though u s district court judge william a ingram of san francisco threw out the jury verdict prohibiting amd from using intels microcode for the david sward sward cmu edu finger or email for pgp public key d f fingerprint e b c db f b fb dc f cb e stop the big brother chip just say no to the clipper wiretap chip
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2,120 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | sx for sale i have a sx megs ram meg harddrive stacked to w stacker floppy expansion slots drive bays vga card no monitor or interesting combination of cash and trade located in chicago please e mail to this address tmccn merle acns nwu edu or call allister at thanks
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2,121 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | cdrom audio cable i am looking for a cdrom audio cable to connect my toshiba b l r audio to the pro audio spectrum sound card thanks in advance for any pointers steve steve la network manager stevela csulb edu calstate university long beach bellflower blvd long beach ca
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2,122 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi in article qsa innm b dns nmsu edu bgrubb dante nmsu edu grubb writes richk grebyn com richard krehbiel writes stuff about the connection between ide and ida deleated mhz clock bit width mb sec if ide speed come from ida where does the mb s sighted for ide come from well some quick math on my part shows that an mhz bus bits wide performing a transfer every two clock cycles will provide m bytes sec someone said that it really takes clock cycles to perform a transfer so that reduces the transfer rate to mb s which is the commonly used figure for isa bus speed however i believe a two clock transfer is possible wait states richard krehbiel richk grebyn com os will do for me until amigados for the comes along
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2,123 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re date is stuck jamesc netcom com james chuang writes when you leave your radio on at night it may not be doing anything useful but computers can do something useful even when you are not in front of it just because ms dos and windoze does not know how to schedule tasks does not mean that all computers hould be shut down every night i bet starting up nt every morning means a good coffee break jamesc if someone asks if you are a god you say yes in addition to startup time i leave things running because my pc doubles as a fax machine however this is off the original subject i didn t get the replies on bios cmos and dos clock date logic all i know is that i ve been running this way for many months and it is only recently the last month that i have noticed the intermittent clock problem as i stated it is not always the date that doesn t roll forward sometimes i notice that the clock is several minutes behind where it ought to be when unattended the following are generally running minimized in win clock winfax pro print manager ms word file manager program manager a random screen saver is generally running too barry sardis home laurie avenue office san jose ca fax email bsardis netcom com or compuserve com
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2,124 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitors has anyone taken a look at the new viewsonic they claim x at hz how does it compare with the t i in terms of price and quality of display living on tulsa time rusty foreman rforeman trc amoco com amoco production research uunet apctrc zrdf p o box phone tulsa ok fax
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2,125 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | gateway booting from floppy i have a gateway dx v with my inch floppy as drive a i accidentally discovered that if a have a floppy from one particular box of diskettets in the a drive when i boot up rather than getting the non system diskette message the machine hangs and the cmos gets overwritten luckily gateway sends a print of the standard cmos settings with their systems this only happens with a box of pre formatted fuji disks that i have no other disks cause this problem if i re format one of the fuji disks the problem goes away i did a virus scan scan v of the disks and found nothing anyone have any idea what is going on here hardware problem a virus that can t be detected the system reading in garbage from the boot sector tim king tcking uswnvg com
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2,126 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | vl bus hdd fdd controller or ide hdd fdd controller hi i am buying a quantum lps at mb hardisk and is deciding a hdd fdd controller is bit vl bus hdd fdd controller faster than bit ide hdd fdd controller card i hear that the vl bus controller is slower than a ide controller which one is true please shed some light by email or post thanks a lot best regards beng hang tay telnet singapore networks operation phone hewlett packard singapore pte ltd fax depot road internet taybh hpsgm sgp hp com singapore republic of singapore
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2,127 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re debugging possible hardware problems in article r rslinnnv senator bedfellow mit edu jfc athena mit edu john f carr writes i m running linux on an 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 kb write back cache and a dx 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 x r 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 h j
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2,128 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re what s the diff between mouse sys com x sanson gw wmich edu wrote what s the difference between loading mouse com in autoexec bat and doing device mouse sys in config sys the only difference is the time the driver gets loaded mouse sys will be loaded during the config sys and therefor before the command com mouse com will be loaded during autoexec bat and so after the command com which one is better mouse com could be started from the commandline after the booting and it could perhaps be unloaded if no other driver is loaded after it the working of both drivers is totally the same when i ran dos i preferred loading most of the drivers in autoexec bat because some programs won t run with some drivers and i could choose the ones i needed during startup but with drdos this advantage is gone because drdos lets you choose in config sys which drivers should be loaded michael michael jester gun de michael gerhards preussenstrasse germany neuss voice
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2,129 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re help ten beeps with ami bios g wayne nichols gwni troi cc rochester edu wrote i have a motherboard with ami bios after multiple reboots now it only gives beeps and sits there referring to the manual of my motherboard with ami bios beeps are a cmos shutdown register read write error if the system stops after these beeps if the system continues it is a keyboard error michael michael jester gun de michael gerhards preussenstrasse germany neuss voice
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2,130 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re weitek p future plans in article qttufinn dr uniko uni koblenz de from apr gmt you wrote 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 supermac just announced a new line of pc accelerated cards that do x in bit color they start at retail i don t think your wait will be very long rupert
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2,131 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | reboot problem from x b usma usma edu tue apr received from usma usma edu by trotter usma edu smi eef id aa tue apr edt received by usma usma edu eef id aa tue apr edt message id aa usma usma edu date tue apr edt from x b usma usma edu peckham david cdt to cs au decster uta edu subject problem status or i am running a unisys pw sx with dos my problem even when i had dos is that when i have emm loaded i can t ctl alt del if i do the computer beeps a few times rapidly and hangs then i have to use the obscure reset requires a screwdriver or pencil or the power switch to reboot does anyone have a solution to this problem e mail me at x b usma usma edu dave thanks dave david s peckham internet x b usma usma edu u s military academy jason brown cs au decster uta edu fav player ruben sierra
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2,132 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | sound blaster midi hi i m currently in the process of writing a number of pd programs for the sound blaster the first of which is a cmf voice editor which is hopefully going to be available soon as soon as i can get it to an ftp site anyway the next stage is to use the midi port to enter music and play the fm synth remotely the problem is that i have little or no info on the sb midi port i have tried using the sound blaster freedom project routines however this just results in the port locking after a couple of accesses and loss the of note velocity data byte i am using turbo c and would be grateful for any info or source fragments may help when i was in berlin this summer i saw a book which seemed to have all this information but my german is poor to say the least if anyone has this book could they please mail me my second request for help concerns standard file formats how can a file format be standard if you keep it secret i need to know the file format for instrument bank files bnk and roland music files rol finally does anyone have a source for displaying pcx or gif files to ega or vga monitors please help you know it makes sense colin
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2,133 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | sending a null character across ethernet 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 which ctrl does not work thanks saeid
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2,134 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re can t set com in article c rajn cbnewsh cb att com k bnc cbnewsh cb att com john a siegel writes i have been unable to get com to work diagnostic programs such as msd show nothing installed i think the software options are ok is there a known hardware conflict and or workaround for this problemand cd rom system is a g k dx tower with ati video card ports are set as follows on board coma com irq to external device internal modem com irq dfio port card primary port com irq mouse on board com b com irq does not work i have run this from a boot disk with only command com to eliminate softwar any suggestions before i call technical support john siegel k bnc cbnewsh att com jas hrollie hr att com i had this problem some time ago some bioses do not automatically install com or com in the port tables programs like most modem programs which write directly to the port work fine but anything that uses a bios call fails find a bbs or ftp site where you can get a copy of port finder put device pf sys in your config sys or run pf com from your autoexec bat this little program will locate all existing ports and make sure the bios tables are updated it works great pf will also let you swap ports and such also if that is of any value to you allen mulvey mulvey blurt oswego edu
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2,135 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | need advice to select sound card hi i need some advice from the netland in selecting a sound card i am about to buy a sound card for my kid i don t know which one to buy which one to select from the following list sound blaster miscrosoft sound card audio spectrum sound blaster pro sound blaster my allocated budget is around could some of you know about sound cards help me to select the most appropriate one for my kid i have mz opti mb i also have nec cdrom that i would like to connect to the sound card thank you kent khioe juno jpl nasa gov
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2,136 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re funet fi artieb vnet ibm com writes i saw a posting earlier that refered to funet fi directory pub msdos however when i log on to funet fi i cant even find the pub directory let alone the msdos directory can someone tell me what i m doing wrong perhaps you should try nic funet fi instead of funet fi nic funet fi is the biggest ftp site from europe but the stuff available there should also be available at the other site of the big pool perry egelmeers
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2,137 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ati build drivers good in article c fomu o austin ibm com larryhow austin ibm com writes how stable are the build drivers are people having success installing and running with these i ve been using the build drivers on a gw k dx v for several weeks with no problems i m running windows in x and all software i ve run has worked fine this includes many games and the cd based multi media encyclopedia on which the full motion video works fine i d recommend you give them a try john john gayman wa wbu uucp uunet wa wbu john packet wa wbu wb eah
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2,138 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | gamecards i own an sx mhz mb ram machine and am finding it too slow for certain games such as x wing i was in a computer store there the other day and saw a series of gamecards which claim to speed up your machine to up to mhz i was wondering if anyone out there who has a similar machine had bought one or seen one of these gamecards and whether or not they do actually work any help here would be much appreciated thanks in advance greg when a man lies he murders some part of the world or does he eggman
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2,139 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re no bit box on gateway i got this from gw from gateway aol com x mailer america online mailer to pastor vfl paramax com subject re bit disk access date mon mar est message id tn aol com status ro jon to get bit access in windows all you have to do is edit the system ini look under the enhanced section and add this line to it bitdiskaccess on this will give you the bitdiskaccess that you need thanks regards scot oehlerking g kscooter gateway
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2,140 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | eric bosco where are you eric send me your email address i lost it i ve reconsidered kevin
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2,141 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | pcs from gateway opinions sought sorry if this has been beaten to death on this forum i am looking seriously at buying a dx from gateway i will probably buy it without a monitor as i ve heard negative stuff about gateway monitors i ve also heard its tough to get through to technical support i m seeking opinions on whether or not its wise to go ahead based on criteria such as price warranty service general ruggedness of the system reliability of the machine and of gateway too and so on please advise thanks in advance vasudev murthy vasudev murthy any opinions expressed are strictly murthy asl dl nec com my own and have nothing to do with advanced switching lab nec america inc walnut hill lane irving tx
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2,142 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | summary doubledisk gold v hi netters as promised here are the summary of opinions on doubledisk gold v people seem to be quite happy with the product there is no much of opinion on how good it is compared to the industry leader stacker superstor pro is not considered since it is slower than stacker although just as reliable byte magazine s conclusion so it s hard to make any decision to go with stacker or with doubledisk gold v however it seems that at it is quite a buy buddy christyono buddy optics ece wisc edu summary of replies hello buddy i do not have dd gold experience i just ordered it i currently have dd the last version i am very pleased with its performance here is my suggestion if you do not have any compression software currently i would go with dos s compression all the discussion on the net indicates that for you get the compression built into the os plus the other utilities that you would pay way more than for besides you are now at dos whatever that means if you have doubledisk already like i do the cost is for the upgrade after thinking about it and asking the net i decided that i could not go wrong with the update cost i have never suffered from performance of dd i have a ms hd with large sw packages in both compressed and uncompressed format it works great not delays i think the a is better than b arguements are a lot of bunk they are all comparable in performance i am looking forward to being able to loadhigh the dd sw that has been an annoyance if you have stacker et al currently i would not see it worth the effort to upgrade just my regards mark bagdy buddy i got the same mailer about weeks ago i got ddg and installed it the documentation was in my opinion easy to follow i used the automatic installation not the custom and everything went smoothly there were some specific instructions on a readme file for dealing with max qemm ddg has an uninstall unlike dos if you need it my system has a mb hard drive before installing ddg i had mb free after ddg i had mb free pretty good statistics considering that my mb permanent windows swap file stayed on the uncompressed portion along with other drivers and such i have had no problems whatsoever i have noticed no slowdown other than it takes a little longer to boot either in windows or dos so far i am a very happy camper bruce bruce f steinke never know when you re going to bsteinke dsd es com need a good piece of rope software technical support engineer sam gamgee evans sutherland computer corp my mail my opinions i have been using doubledisk gold for a little more than a month on a dx mhz mb seagate drive running dos windows in enhanced mode i ran some tests and concluded that the speed of a doubledisk drive with a drive read cache is about equal to the bare drive without a cache i have no complaints about reliability it was very easy to install the only problem i had was with castle wolfenstein d i assumed the game was trying to bypass dos disk access and moved the game to the non compressed region of the disk since then the game has never given me a problem there was never any damage to the doubledisk drive compression performance for the whole disk has held steady around this is lower than expected but about size of my files are compressed image files and some large zip files if you have any more specific questions let me know dan i bought it an have been happy with it i use it on both mfm and ide mb drives i was using doubledisk before gold came out that is the same product msdos is shipping with no problems with either product ron bjornseth bjornset pogo den mmc com end of messages
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2,143 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | vlb bus master problem i am trying to put together a new pc with vesa local bus i would like to get vlb cards for video and scsi but i have heard of a problem with bus mastering controllers on vlb something to the effect that they will actually slow down a system anyone heard of this problem specifically i am interested in the ultrastor f vlb scsi controller before i shell out the bucks for this thing i would like to get the straight scoop from someone who knows does anyone have this controller any problems with it bob kimball rkimball qualcomm com
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2,144 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re no bit box on gateway in article apr hpcvca cv hp com scott hpcvccl cv hp com scott linn writes while playing around with my gateway local bus machine last night it became apparent that windows didn t give the option for bit access for virtual memory i am using a permanent swap file and the disk drive is on the local bus interface is this expected or should i be investigating further why no bit option appears you need to massage few switches in your system ini in the virtual memory section flip the bitaccess switch on and the associated driver wdctl or some such switch on this will enable bit access but be sure you can use it as not all hard drives and controllers support it for seriously fast disk access throw out windoze install os i did this weekend os is incredible finally a real os for the humble pc tim
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2,145 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re x on ati ultra w nanao i mancus sweetpea jsc nasa gov keith mancus writes reference to running ati s install program and using its functions to position size images at various resolutions i thought this was a neat feature until i noticed that when an image is re sized the scanning frequency is necessarily changed this causes digital multiscan monitors like my mag mx f to get confused as to which mode to use if the frequency gets too far from the standard selections for this reason i use the factory defaults for position size on the ati card and adjust each mode individually only the first time at the monitor the mag and many other multiscan monitors has have the ability to recall these settings the next time each mode is detected edward mcclanahan edm wrs com
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2,146 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re dos i know of two people who have horrer stories about the dos that s of the people i know with dos both have had to reformat their disks and start over i used the standard installation program to put ms dos on my machine with stacker already installed no problems i kept stacker rather than switch i am very pleased with the memory i gained since i did not have a memory manager i also like the multiple boot feature
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2,147 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | how is a null modem cable i am interrested in the extrodinarily simple concept of the null modem cable actually i have no idea so don t count that last statement what i m asking is what pins does it use or what are it s specifications i just want to solder one myself instead of buying one i don t even know what port is used help me please at ke kimmell vax cns muskingum edu kevin p s i m intending to use the cable for pc to pc transfers via lap link or telix ideas and info gladly accepted
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2,148 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | kentucky fried cmos beats hardees hey folks is it possible to short out your cmos chip i think mine is fried these are the symptoms i have to do the following to get my computer a gateway dx to boot turn the power off disconnect the battery to the cmos chip turn the power on get into setup upon getting the cmos configuration error set up the cmos exit the setup with f phoenix bios ignore the diskette seek error and press f the computer then boots normally both hard drives are accessible but the floppy drives are not i can back up over the network and such but if i need to reboot i have to turn off the computer and repeat the steps above if i simply ctl alt del the computer hangs after the memory test does this sound like the cmos chip is fried can i buy another one where thank you for your kind attention john john c lusth becton dickinson research center rtp nc usa jcl bdrc bd com
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2,149 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | wanted your opinions on the insight talon ta or ta multimedia kits for those of you who might be familiar with insight distribution network inc and their multimedia kits i m seriously considering buying the insight talon ta mm kit which is bundled with the cd rom drive with ms access time kb dtr multispin multi session photo cd capability etc and with the pas sound card etc if you are familiar with insight you know the kit i mean i believe the drive is either a texel ms or an nec ms but it is not clear to me which one is actually a part of the bundle at least two of their sales people couldn t give me a straight answer as to which one ah yes one of the drawbacks of oem other questions excuse my ignorance but is texel a reputable maker in the cd rom market or do you think nec is the better drive bottom line is this kit worth the money currently for the ta and for the ta alternatively i was thinking that the ta might be overkill for my uses however i do want full multimedia capabilities photo cd stuff educational programs for my kids etc and considered the lower end ta kit and using the difference around to get something else useful like a tape back up drive unit basically i would just like to hear from those who have actually used these kits and whatever pros cons you might advise preferably directly to the email address below thanks koji koji kodama by nippon motorola ltd ryvg email sps mot com note the opinions expressed herein are mine and do not reflect the opinions or policies of motorola inc or its affiliates
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2,150 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | how hot should the cpu be how hot should the cpu in a dx machine be currently it gets so hot that i can not hold a finger on it for more than s i keep a big fan blowing on it but am considering using a heat sink any advice chris kushmerick kushmer bnlux bnl gov i found my niche in life i just didn t fit in
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2,151 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re monitors in article c shlj ere trc amoco com zrdf trc amoco com rusty foreman writes has anyone taken a look at the new viewsonic they claim x at hz how does it compare with the t i in terms of price and quality of display i m interested in the new viewsonic as well has anyone seen one of these monitors in the flesh tony
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2,152 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | mounting cpu cooler in vertical case i just installed a dx cpu in a clone motherboard and tried mounting a cpu cooler on the chip after about hour the weight of the cooler was enough to dislodge the cpu from its mount it ended up bending a few pins on the cpu but luckily the power was not on yet i ended up pressing the cpu deeply into its socket and then putting the cpu cooler back on so far so good have others had this problem how do you ensure that the weight of the cpu fan and heatsink do not eventually work the cpu out of its socket when mounting the motherboard in a vertical case will estes internet westes netcom com
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2,153 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re hint vlb isa eisa motherboard in article c ovwv lmo news iastate edu schauf iastate edu brian j schaufenbuel writes i am looking at buying some companion brand vlb isa eisa motherboards with hint chipsets has anybody had any experience with this board good or bad any information would be helpful thanks brian j schaufenbuel i believe that any vl eisa isa motherboard that uses the hint chipset is limited to bit eisa dma where real eisa dma is bit the hint eisa dma has the mb ram addressing limitation of isa for this reason i would pass i own one of these hawk vl eisa isa and am look ing to replace it for exactly this reason please double check me on this in other words call the motherboard manufacturer and ask them if the motherboard supports true bit eisa dma other than this limitation the motherboard works quite well i am using mine with dos windows and unix s r also with adaptec a eisa scsi host adapter gary korenek korenek nmti com network management technology incorporated sugar land texas
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2,154 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re soundblaster irq and port settings these lpt com disk controller are call devices there are devices that requires exclusive interrupt ownership eg disk controller i and keyboard i there are also devices that does not require exclusive ownership ie it will share an interrupt with another device eg lpt no in a standard isa bus the one that almost all non laptop pcs use two separate interface cards cannot share an interrupt this is due to a screwup in the bus design for example if your soundblaster wants to drive interrupt number then it must hold a certain bus wire to or at all times depending on whether or not it wants an interrupt this precludes letting another card assert interrupt number when two or more devices in an isa bus pc share an interrupt it s because they re implemented by a single card andrew klossner andrew frip wv tek com
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2,155 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re zeos computers i have had a zeos for a couple months while the experience was not painless or perfect it was way better than that endured by most people i personally know who have ordered gateways of course several of the gateway buyers were rewarded by getting free stuff as gateway can t seem to keep track of what it has or hasn t sent out b i got the mb viper card the first one was defective but zeos replaced it with only minor hassles this one works fine i haven t noticed any problems in any of my applications i also ordered it because of all the complaints about the ati a few months ago guess you can choose either buggy state of the art stuff or robust average stuff for my particular configuration tower watt supply pkg no monitor viper etc the zeos was slightly cheaper than gateway austin etc but this can change from month to month mike
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2,156 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | ibm link to imagewriter help hello i am trying to hook an apple imagewriter to my ibm clone i seem to have a problem configuring my lpt port to accept this how can you adjust baud parity etc to fit the system i tried mode but it did not work if anyone can help post of e mail thanx abort retry format doctor give me the chainsaw trust me i m a scientist larry henson
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2,157 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re how hot should the cpu be christopher kushmerick kushmer bnlux bnl gov wrote how hot should the cpu in a dx machine be currently it gets so hot that i can not hold a finger on it for more than s i seem to recall that s run somewhere close to the boiling point of water anyone have an exact temperature anyway putting a cpu fan heat sink on it won t hurt and could help depends on how paranoid you are damien neil dpn po cwru edu until someone debugs reality the best case western reserve university i can do is a quick patch here and there cmps eeap linux the choice of a gnu generation erik green
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2,158 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re orchid p vs fahrenheit mini review in article apr adobe com sherwood adobe com geoffrey sherwood writes in going with the modern trend the orchid p card only supports colors in x mode without a driver of course this breaks any dos program which uses svga modes like most of my cd roms this is not the case the rom on the p supports vesa modes of up to x in colors vesa compliant applications should have no trouble setting these modes but i m forwarding your posting to our software group just in case can t be too careful not that i doubt that your applications are failing to run lots of stuff depends on figuring out which exact svga they re looking at and don t use vesa calls vesa is still pretty new every new chip set confuses them the supported resolutions really annoy me you can do x at hz if you tell the driver you have an nec fg they only have about six monitors listed plus generic and if you choose generic you can t get any high refreshes at all but at x you are limited to hz seems to me that the hardware should be able to support the bandwidth if it can do hz at it sure should be able to do it at higher vertical resolution was the main reason i bought the card over the orchid f vlb i currently have and it will do x x hz as well i think we go to at least hz at x x and maybe more and it s a function of the ramdac speed not the power we need to fix the problems you ve noted they were already on the list if you re really interested though take a look at the text file p res dat which holds the data from which the choices in the p monitor installation program are built working by analogy you can build up a new monitor definition that has the right combinations of refresh rates for your monitors keep a backup copy of the file once you ve built a new version of the p res dat file run the p installation program inst and your new choices should show up this assumes you have the weitek v drivers you can tell the rev number by looking at the modification time of the driver is version microsoft uses this gimmick too the board is faster that the ofvlb for most things according to the hercules speedy program this program tests various operations and reports the results in pixels second i don t have the numbers for the graphite card but they were close to half of the ofvlb ie slower but that was running in a mhz isa so the numbers aren t really comparable the following numbers were all obtained using a mhz air motherboard umc chipset with mb memory i give ranges because the program reports the numbers as it computes them and these tend to jump around a bit the speedy benchmark was put out by hercules and iit who to my knowledge were unencumbered by any motivations except making the hercules graphite iit agx card look really good so i d take the numbers with a ton of salt texas instruments did the same thing with wintach trying to make the look good compared to the as if anyone cared it s safer though not safe to use benchmarks from unbiased sources such as testing labs columnists etc interestingly the solid vectors and shaded polygons show no improvement and hatched polygons ie filled with cross hatching and ternary rops whatever they are graphics operations like xors maybe are a dead loss on the i think you ll a large discrepancy between the results of speedy and the results of anything else in the universe on these things i give two numbers for the fonts because i think they are caching when the fonts are first drawn on the screen they are done fairly slowly the speed of the ofvlb then the speed increases dramatically sounds like programming to a benchmark to me font caching is a perfectly legitimate optimization windows has hooks for it built right into the gdi what s kind of silly is iit s use of a hardwired the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog then sat on a tack string in their driver not only is it useless in real applications it lacks the programming elegance of the bart simpson optimization in which you save the bitmap of the most recently drawn string in off screen memory and just do a screen to screen bitblit if you happen to be given that same string a second time in a row we call it the bart simpson optimization because bart s the only person we can see benefiting from it he could right i will not cheat on benchmarks a hundred times and be done in half the time it would take to actually form each character i make no claims that these numbers mean anything at all its just what i saw when i ran them on my computer i normally don t write disclaimers but this time maybe i d better my testing is totally unconnected with my work i program under unix on decstations is done completely without the knowledge blessing or equipment of my company we don t have any lawyers they re all working for intel there used to be a lawyer in montana who didn t but he died robert robert plamondon robert weitek com pay no attention to the man behind the curtain i the great and glorious oz have spoken scene from a trade show
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2,159 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | do the mb ati ultra pro and bit windows drivers work hi there we just bought a dx gateway system with a meg ati ultra pro video card everything seems to work fine except for the windows drivers for x bit and x and x bit modes the fonts and icons start deteriorating after windows startup and within minutes of use everything on the screen is totally unintelligible naturally i called gateway tech support to inquire about this the technician asked me about the drivers and i told him it was version build he told me that the and bit drivers for the ati ultra pro simply do not work is this true if so i m simply amazed how could this be the strange thing is i would have expected to see some discussion on here unless the subject has made the faq one very suspicious point that came up later was that he stated that none of the windows accelerator boards have working and or bit drivers for windows i easily challenged him on that because i ve been running a diamond x in bit mode at home for months now and i have tested and used the bit mode as well he then backed off and said well diamond has been working on those drivers much longer anyway i just wanted to see if anyone else had any trouble and what they did about it any feedback will be appreciated the system configuration is gateway dx local bus megs ram scsi hd cd rom ultrastor f local bus scsi controller ati ultra pro local bus with mb vram dos windows mach drivers version build thanks in advance ali r vali reza magellan ae utexas edu
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2,160 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re problems with toshiba cdrom in article apr news columbia edu imj cunixa cc columbia edu imad m jureidini writes hi i recently purchased the toshiba cdrom i own an adaptec b scsi card and i have so far failed to get the cdrom to work under dos it works very well under os so i know that the drive is not faulty in my config sys i have aspi dos sys aspidisk sys aspicd sys in my autoexec bat i have mscdex which came with dos mscdex seems to find and install the drive as drive f but when i switch to that drive and try a dir i get an error message telling me the drive is not ready or something like that the cdrom is locked too and the adaptec utilities don t seem to recognize that i have a cdrom at that point has anyone ever had this problem is there something abvious that i am missing and finally i was wondering if anyone using this setup could kindly post his her config sys and autoexec bat hi one of the aspi drivers i think it s the aspicd supports a norst paramter which means to not reset the scsi bus when it loads this fixed the problem a friend of mine was having with his adaptec tosh regards terje
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2,161 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | volante warp board i ve been troubleshooting the existence of way too many general protection faults on a eisa vlb system at this point i think i ve narrowed the problem down to the video drivers for the volante warp adapter by national design inc yet somehow i find this hard to believe does anyone else have any experiences with this board thanx robert moskal brooklyn usa
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2,162 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | should i get vesa controller card i have a dx mhz with local bus would i see much of an increase in speed in my drives if i got a vesa ide controller card i need advice jimmy buddenberg internet jbuddenberg vax cns muskingum edu muskingum college
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2,163 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | what dma s are my system using hello i am having a small problem with my sound blaster pro and a game is there a utility out there that would tell me what dma s my system is using thanks mark brown
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2,164 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re need info on diamond viper video card experiences with diamond viper vlb video card several problems the ad specified million colors at x resolution with mb of vram which is what i have this color depth is not supported with video bios version and drivers version a max of k colors are supported at x and x resolutions with mb vram with the k color choice i notice two minor irritations a under ndw when an entry in a list is highlighted such as in an open menu and then is deselected a faint vertical line often remains where the left edge of the highlighted rectangle used to be b with word for windows when you use shading in a table the display shows the inverse of the shading for example if you shade the cell as the display is the printout is ok the big killer bug is using the borland c integrated development environment the problem occurs when you click on the turbo debugger icon or use the debugger option in the run command and the debugger application goes to vga character mode as it is designed to do the screen goes haywire and is largely unreadable the turbo debugger display is all garbled through trial and error i have found that when the disrupted screen is displayed you should do alt spacebar followed by the letter r this instructs turbo debugger to refresh the screen and it does this satisfactorily i wish i didn t have to do this the bug is more than with the diamond drivers the same disruptive behavior happens with the standard vga driver that comes with windows there must be something in the video card that mishandles the vga mode the problem is not my monitor the same bug shows up when i use another monitor in place of my usual one i still like this video card and am hoping its problems will be remedied they do offer a year warranty swh apr
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2,165 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | how do i put an hd on an xt this may be a dumb question but i need to put a hard drive on my father s pc xt either mfm rll or ide i know how to hook it up but how do i tell the computer the geometry of the drive on my you set it in the bios but i doubt that s how it s done on an xt i thought it might be software with the controller card but the ide card for xt s that i saw didn t come with any also how do i low level format it once it s on the computer assuming a drive which needs formatting advthanksance rob rxg ultb isc rit edu
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2,166 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | the p t hay all has anyone out there heard of any performance stats on the fabled p t i was wondering what it s performance compared to the and or pentium would be any info would be helpful later bob robert novitskey rrn po cwru edu cwru cleve ohio computer engineer and c programmer now seeking summer jobs
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2,167 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | where can i buy a bios i m in the market to upgrade my bios to a phoenix got a new hard disk discovered my bios doesn t have a type and i would like know where i can purchase one of these things i checked with the motherboard manufacturer for the curious it s from mylex and hearing the figure prompted me to at least try to shop around problem is i don t know where to shop around for something like this i have heard that there s a bios speciality shop in the south bay and it s been alleged that they advertise in the microtimes did find the microtimes didn t find the ad or the shop so can anybody help me out on this quest to anybody who replies to this thanks in advance jeff chan these are my opinions it jeff ikos com not ikos netcom com would be quite silly if it netcom ikos jeff was also my company s
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2,168 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re non turbo speed nic percival x nmp mfltd co uk wrote 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 it should be halved that of turbo ie mhz
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2,169 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re how is a loopback connector made uwovax uwo ca wrote i need to know the pins to connect to make a loopback connector for a serial port so i can build one the loopback connector is used to test the serial port thanks for any help steve me too skcgoh tartarus uwa edu au
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2,170 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re hint vlb isa eisa motherboard in article id xnfz vj nmti com korenek nmti com gary korenek writes in article c ovwv lmo news iastate edu schauf iastate edu brian j schaufenbuel writes i am looking at buying some companion brand vlb isa eisa motherboards with hint chipsets has anybody had any experience with this board good or bad any information would be helpful thanks brian j schaufenbuel i believe that any vl eisa isa motherboard that uses the hint chipset is limited to bit eisa dma where real eisa dma is bit the hint eisa dma has the mb ram addressing limitation of isa for this reason i would pass i own one of these hawk vl eisa isa and am look ing to replace it for exactly this reason please double check me on this in other words call the motherboard manufacturer and ask them if the motherboard supports true bit eisa dma other than this limitation the motherboard works quite well i am using mine with dos windows and unix s r also with adaptec a eisa scsi host adapter gary korenek korenek nmti com network management technology incorporated sugar land texas you are correct the motherboard manufacturer where i usually buy boards says that they will have this problem fixed in about two weeks 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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2,171 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re floppy only reads what it wrote in article netxcom netx com pdressne netxcom netx com peter dressner writes i have a gateway with a floppy the drive only reads files it wrote to the floppy floppies that have been formatted and contain files from other machines are unreadable also floppies that were written by this defective floppy drive a long time ago are also unreadable this sounds like a head alignment problem too right it does how does one go about fixing it are there alignment screws that you can adjust the very very first thing you do is make sure that all files on the floppies that you can currently read in the drive which aren t already on your hd or another floppy if you have two floppy drives get copied to your hd and or to a floppy in your other drive if you don t do this before fixing the alignment problem you have kissd those files goodbye well you can try to re misalign the drive back to read your floppies but don t count on be able to do so generally head alignment is something i d only trust to a good repair shop though there are have been diy guides nick fitzgerald pc applications consultant csc uni of canterbury n z n fitzgerald csc canterbury ac nz tel fax
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2,172 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | gateway ethernet card drivers needed hi all could anybody please tell me where i might be able to find device drivers for a couple of older gateway ethernet cards i don t have the model number off hand but they have only a bnc connector and a header connector for a novell keycard one has one installed i m looking at using these with a node copy of net that i picked up at a swap meet i d love to do lantastic or netware lite but i m a poor college student and the price was right please reply via email as i haven t had a lot of time for news because of exams and such mike gordon n loi mwgordon nyx cs du edu
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2,173 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | otronics attache luggable info needed hi all i m looking for some info regarding an old pcmade by otronics or maybe oltronics called the attache this little beauty is an z luggable with a or inch screen monochrome cga and floppies for serial ports it has db connectors one is labled printer and i can t figure out the pinouts for them i also don t know if they are standard com ports addressable as com and com i have figured out that they ll only work with dos something if anyone can give me some pointers on this one i d be most appreciative please reply via email as i can t keep up with news lately finals are coming up you know thanks much mike gordon n loi mwgordon nyx cs du edu
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2,174 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re help with hooking irwin tape drive to pc i would like to thank all those people who responded to my post i would however like to clear some things up my tape drive is external also the connector on the back of it is of the male db pin variety as a result i cannot easily find a cost effective solution to use the drive any advice will be greatly appreciated i would prefer email thanks tony shan tonys uiuc edu
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2,175 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | for sale sound blaster card hurry well it seems that i have a soundblaster card for sale since i recently purchased a sbpro the card comes complete in mint condition with box manuals docs disks and original packaging make an offer canadian inquiries prefered respond before april e mail at acps ryevm ryerson ca j m
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2,176 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re do the mb ati ultra pro and bit windows drivers work in article ut emx uucp reza magellan ae utexas edu alireza vali writes hi there we just bought a dx gateway system with a meg ati ultra pro video card everything seems to work fine except for the windows drivers for x bit and x and x bit modes the fonts and icons start deteriorating after windows startup and within minutes of use everything on the screen is totally unintelligible naturally i called gateway tech support to inquire about this the technician asked me about the drivers and i told him it was version build he told me that the and bit drivers for the ati ultra pro simply do not work is this true if so i m simply amazed how could this be the strange thing is i would have expected to see some discussion on here unless the subject has made the faq one very suspicious point that came up later was that he stated that none of the windows accelerator boards have working and or bit drivers for windows i easily challenged him on that because i ve been running a diamond x in bit mode at home for months now and i have tested and used the bit mode as well he then backed off and said well diamond has been working on those drivers much longer anyway i just wanted to see if anyone else had any trouble and what they did about it any feedback will be appreciated the system configuration is gateway dx local bus megs ram scsi hd cd rom ultrastor f local bus scsi controller ati ultra pro local bus with mb vram dos windows mach drivers version build i have been able to successfully use both and bit color modes on my gateway system although my setup is less complicated than yours it sounds as if you may have a hardware conflict or problem is your memory aperture above m i have heard rumors of incompatibilities with that scsi card with a variety of systems call up gateway and give them hell until they help you fix it dan daniel matthew coleman internet dcoleman utxvms cc utexas edu dcoleman ccwf cc utexas edu the university of texas at austin decnet utxvms dcoleman electrical computer engineering bitnet dcoleman utxvms bitnet
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2,177 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re vl bus hdd fdd controller or ide hdd fdd controller in article hpsgm sgp hp com taybh hpsgm sgp hp com beng hang tay writes hi i am buying a quantum lps at mb hardisk and is deciding a hdd fdd controller is bit vl bus hdd fdd controller faster than bit ide hdd fdd controller card no vl bus ide is no faster than isa ide the ide interface is fundamentally nothing more than an extension of the isa bus and if you hook it to vl bus it ll work as fast as the slower of the two meaning isa speed i hear that the vl bus controller is slower than a ide controller on the other hand i wouldn t expect it to be slower richard krehbiel richk grebyn com os will do for me until amigados for the comes along
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2,178 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | need help identifying serial board i need some help with a multi port serial board of unknown origin i m hoping someone knows what this board is or even better what the various switches and jumbers are used for anyway here s description of the card it is a bit card although i noticed that none of the contacts in the bit extension are connected to anything it has ns an chips in sockets and corresponding connecters labeled com com there is also an external female connector with pins there are banks of switches banks of switches and jumpers i believe that i have determined by following traces that sw and sw switches in all control the interrupt level for each of the com ports sw are for irq sw are for irq and sw are for irq the other switches are beyond my meager ability to follow the only identification printed on the board is multi serial port board across the bottom there is a box for serial number but it is blank immediately below the words serial no but not in the box left for the s n are the numbers anyone have any clues your help is greatly appreciated dwayne stratsft uucp we have ways to make you scream dwayne bailey intel advertisement strategic software in the june doctor dobbs journal redford michigan
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2,179 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | actix graphicsengine plus i just bought an actix graphics engine plus with megs i am not impressed i have been having all sorts of problems with the board various lock ups in windows problems with the screen not centering no flexibilty in choosing synch rates for a monitor buggy windows drivers lack of x x k driver if anyone else has one of these cards please e mail me looks like i m going to try the ati ultra plus brad bach udel edu brad cain n naf cain snow white ee udel edu university of delaware electrical engineering cain freezer cns udel edu blah blah blah alt blah
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2,180 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re a drive won t boot balog eniac seas upenn edu eric j balog writes hi i recently switched my drive to a the problem is while i can read and write to both the new a and b correctly i can t boot from a floppy in a i ve checked the cmos settings it is set for floppy seek at boot and boot order a c once i had a floppy that did not have the systems files on it in a i got a message telling me to put a disk systems disk in the drive it didn t work when i do have a systems disk in the a drive this is what happens power on and memory test a light comes on b light comes on followed by a short beep hd light comes on for an instant b light comes on again then nothing happens the light goes off there is no disk activity of any kind and the screen blanks i can t even use ctrl alt del any suggestions have you checked the setting of drive a to m floppy the setting of drive b to m foppy the cable connecting the two drives to the controller card i can t remember which two wires are swapped but they determine which is drive a b i hope this is of some help steve s minyos xx oz au
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2,181 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re simms and sipps mb needed yuri atmos washington edu writes i need simms and sipps mb but price should be around piece i assume you are talking about meg x simms or meg x sipps with speed of ns i would take k pieces per week if you have that price fob us port i am not waiting for an offer with that price i could only dream tiger i am waiting for an offer yuri yulaev th ave ne seattle wa home work fax internet yuri atmos washington edu uucp uw beaver atmos washington edu yuri
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2,182 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | disk data compression and interleave does anyone have enough experience to report whether disk data compression has any effect on the optimal disk sector interleave offhand i expect that the time required to decompress disk data would increase the optimum disk sector interleave alan hinds
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2,183 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | chaining ide drives hi i am trying to set up a conner and a quantum at drive i have the conner set to the master and the quantum set to the slave doesn t work the other way around i am able to access both drives if i boot from a floppy but the drives will not boot themselves i am running msdos and have the conner partitioned as primary dos and is formatted with system files i have tried all different types of setups and even changed ide controller cards if i boot from a floppy everything works great except the booting part the system doesn t report an error message or anything just hangs there does anyone have any suggestions or has somebody else run into a similar problem i was thinking that i might have to update the bios on one of the drives is this possible any suggestions answers would be greatly appreciated please reply to jason badry badry cs ualberta ca
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2,184 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re ide vs scsi in article apr julian uwo ca wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes stuff deleted so the lowly low density original pc fdd card used dma and the pc at hdd controller doesn t that makes real sense actually it does make a reasonable amount of sense fixed disk sectors are buffered by the controller and transferring them to memory with a rep insw or whatever the instruction is called is quite efficient single instruction goes as fast as the controller cpu know how to use the bus since the wasn t cached the bus is likely a critical resource relative to cpu performance and it s possible that dma bus interference would cause as much or more loss of cpu cycles for computing as does the rep insw sequence the floppy on the other hand is not buffered so that using the cpu for floppy data transfer as was done on the pc jr by the way really does stink wally bass
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2,185 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re date is stuck in article apr oec orbital dialix oz au oecjtb oec orbital dialix oz au john bongiovanni writes stuff deleted 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 there are two problems the bios tod routine which updates the bios clock uses only bit for day increment so a second wrapping of the clock past midnight will get lost if no one calls the bios to read the clock in the meantime and the bios resets the day wrap indicator on the first get date call from anybody after the wrap indicator has been set so unless the first bios get date call after midnight is done by the dos kernel which is the only part of dos which knows how to increment the date the day wrap indication is normally lost my guess is that kevin s menu system uses bios calls to read the clock in order to display the time and is hence the entity which causes the day wrap indication to get lost even if the menu system notices the day wrap which i think is indicated by a non zero value in al there really isn t any particularly good way to tell dos about it so that dos can update the day the menu system should use dos calls to get the time which would cause the dos kernel to do the bios call and the wrap indicator would hence be processed properly possibly though the menu system can t easily use dos calls for time because dos is not reentrant and perhaps time incrementing ofters occur while the menu system is inside some other dos call wally bass
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2,186 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re amd i clones now legal in us poe wharton upenn edu writes a friend of mine called me on the phone and told me he was wathcing cnn and saw a report that the ruling prohibiting amd from selling their i clones has been thrown out making it legal for amd to ship in the us can anyone out there verify this thanks in advance phil yep this was on the news great news for consumers bad news for intel
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2,187 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re diamond stealth giving winmarks on my dx with the stealth vlb i get winmarks with ver
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2,188 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re atari mono and vga in article apr oregon uoregon edu arosborn oregon uoregon edu alan osborn writes in article apr tdb uu se m max tdb uu se max brante writes have anybody succeded in converting a atari monomchrome monitor into a mono vga monitor if so please let me know exactly how you did and what graphics card you used i wish i could help i posted a similar question about two weeks ago i got no response at all i ve asked locally at my friendly atari store i was told that it should be possible but that they had no idea how it might be done nor did they particularly care to investigate please if anyone has any suggestions post them you might try asking on one of the comp sys ibm echos the best one may be comp sys ibm pc hardware i say this because the conversion seems more geared toward a pc user wanting to use that monitor than an atari user who already can use the monitor unless maybe they want to really go wild converting the monitor to vga then using it as a vga monitor with a falcon as for graphics cards assuming that the atari monitor can be modified adapted to handle vga signals you should probably be able to use any vga card at least with a res around x i haven t tried this but that would be my guess robert anisko anisko usdtsg daytonoh ncr com you might want to price mono vga monitors anyways it may be cheaper to go that route than to do the conversion besides with the falcon and beyond vga svga multisync monitors will probably be the way to go
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2,189 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | multi i o card with uart s is it possible to buy a serial i o card with the uart s built in rather than having to buy them separately and socketing them in my current i o card uses s correct number the braindead ones anyway it also controls two floppy drives and two ide hard drives ideally i d like to get a new multi i o card that had serial ports with s and could also control another ide hd s it would have to have configurable addresses for both the serial ports and the ide controller so it could co exist with my existing card does such a beast exist now the hard part where can i get one in australia preferably brisbane thanks geoff green spart cs uq oz au
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2,190 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re problems with toshiba cdrom in article r nt oa ratatosk uninett no hktth nho hydro com writes in article apr news columbia edu imj cunixa cc columbia edu imad m jureidini writes hi i recently purchased the toshiba cdrom i own an adaptec b scsi card and i have so far failed to get the cdrom to work under dos it one of the aspi drivers i think it s the aspicd supports a norst paramter which means to not reset the scsi bus when it loads this fixed the problem a friend of mine was having with his adaptec tosh regards terje it worked thank you very much imj cunixa cc columbia edu imad hexabyte jureidini the ultimate knight grand priest of the secrets of the undefined
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2,191 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | cpu temperature vs cpu activity this may be a very naive question but is there any basis for the claim that a cpu will get hotter when a computationally intensive job is running my friend claims that there will be little difference in the temperature of an idle cpu and a cpu running a computationally intensive job lino montuno
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2,192 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | test don t read 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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2,193 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | color drivers i would appreciate the driver name from cica which functions as a color driver for a quadtel video card the type of chip or chipset used would suffice as well umeister u washington edu
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2,194 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re g k jumbo backup problems in article apr den mmc com snorman den mmc com writes 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 i ve been using an identical setup except for the tower config for several months now from previous discussions on the net the first thing to check for is dma conflicts with other devices especically if you ve got any funky ones next off suspect your tape try a fresh one good luck tim
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2,195 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re diamond stealth giving winmarks pc mag only got around winmarks when they tested the steal it sounds like you are ok jamesc if someone asks if you are a god you say yes
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2,196 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | re how is a loopback connector made uwovax uwo ca writes i need to know the pins to connect to make a loopback connector for a serial port so i can build one the loopback connector is used to test the serial port thanks for any help from a recent byte magazine i got the following question and part of the answer deleted if you are handy with a soldering iron the loopback plugs are easy to make on a serial rs nine pin port use a female db connector and connect pins to to to and to to for serial rs pin ports you ll need a female db connector with pins to to to to to to to to to and to connected to test a centronics pin parallel port you ll need to connect pins to to to to and to in a male db connector stan wszola i haven t tried it use at own risk kkc etobkkc hisoy etn ericsson se
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2,197 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | any comments on eisa bus book hello i have the following list of books about isa eisa buses isa system architecture by tom shanley don anderson mindshare press eisa system architecture by tom shanley don anderson mindshare press isa eisa pc xt at e isa isa and eisa i o timing and specs by edward solari copyright isbn at bus design by edward solari copyright isbn interfacing to the ibm pc xt by eggebrecht lewis c copyright do you have any comments on any of them please reply by e mail thanks in advance manolis stratakis
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2,199 | comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware | hayes jt fax card for sale i have a like new hayes jt fax for sale or offer or trade wally waggoner wow cup portal com
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