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booting from b drive i have a drive as drive a how can i make the system boot from my b drive optimally the computer would be able to boot from either a or b checking them in order for a bootable disk but if i have to switch cables around and simply switch the drives so that it can t boot disks that s ok also boot b wo...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
info about fast centronics ecp epp hello in the edn magazine i found a note about the new c t c i o controller it support several parallel port protocols including fast centronics microsoft enhanced capabilities protocol ecp enhanced parallel port epp the last two handle data rates up to mbytes sec is there any specifi...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re monitor for xga in apr watson ibm com kaul vnet ibm com writes my home viewsonic i like the multisyncs because it s easy to run them in modes like x x k colors noninterlaced or at higher modes like x x oh yeah i just got my new eizo flexscan yesterday to replace my old and i tried it with x this mode is just great i...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
s re problems with s initialization as described the manual the following steps must be done for th initialization of the s card initdisplay bios call with ax reg f h with bx reg h for x x resolution interrupt h unlock register lock cr for access to s register set unlock register lock cr for access to syst control and ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re recommendations for a local bus cached ide controller 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 unde...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
an simulator is example code available hello world i m attempting to write an simulator on an ibm pc for teaching purposes so that first year elec eng students can see the workings of the microcontroller as it performs operations logical ands for example being shown on a bit by bit basis and so that the students can se...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
wanna sex hello you re not quite sure if that s a joke or not anyway you read the article you re right the header only this is a joke it s worth reading perhaps some of you know my regular list of ide harddisk specs where i give all available information about ide harddrives i am strongly interested in contacting the m...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
connection machine hiya all i realise this has little to do with pc s but it does have a lot to do with hardware so has nay of you heard of a computer called the connection machine if so could you e mail me any and all info you have eg references ideas etc all help is appreciated caviar dreams l cause s minyos xx rmit ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
ide scsi controller hi folks i have hd first is an seagate mb the second a cdc mb with a future domain no ram i d like to change my controller ide scsi and buy a new one with ram at least mb that could controll all of them any companies how many and is it possible via hw or via sw select how divide the ram cache for hd...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
apple hard disk drive just wanted to ask a question i bought a hard disk drive second hand the other day and i opened the packaging up and saw that there was a small sticker on the drive that had a little red apple with a bite taken out of it it s socket did not look the same as my existing hard disk that is in my comp...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re hard disk question in article aovai bp qube ocunix on ca aovai qube ocunix on ca aovai writes hi i just disassembled my old xt and get disk drives m hard drive and a k floppy drive my questions are can i use these drives as drives d e on my sx this sx currently has m hard drive m m floppy drives if i can what s w or...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
what video board for my system i d appreciate any advice about a video card for my system dx mb of ram on a novell network monitor nec fge capable of hz vertical refresh rate major considerations i expect i will work mostly in windows but with some dos applications and i would want decent speed in dos i do mostly word ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
dx isa vs dx eisa hello can anyone give me their opinion on which system has got the best overall system performance dx with isa bus or dx with eisa bus the systems are equal in all other areas thanks in advance jesper honig spring spring diku dk if animals believed in god university of copenhagen denmark the devil wou...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
mountain tape backup dh does anyone out their have a mountain tape backup that i could compare dh notes with jumper settings software ect dh or does anyone know where i could contact the makers of this drive dh you can contact mountain network solutions at dh general number dh tech support dh bbs thanks very much for t...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re ctx i started a similar thread about a month ago and got many replies the summary ctx nasty low quality avoid ctx proscan not as good as some other makes however cheap main problem seems poor quality control some reported pincushioning the problem i had others poor focus etc etc i complained about mine and it was re...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re dx isa vs dx eisa on fri apr gmt jesper honig spring spring diku dk wrote can anyone give me their opinion on which system has got the best overall system performance dx with isa bus or dx with eisa bus dx eisa vesa royal among others is celling such a system for penio penev x w internet penev venezia rockefeller ed...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re ide vs scsi i almost got a hernia laughing at this one if anything scsi on a pc will be obsolete killed off by vesa local 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 first off with all these huge software packages and files that they ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re difference between vlb and isa eisa hurley epcot spdc ti com writes in article apr spdc ti com what about vlb and a dx does the local bus still run at mhz or does it try to run at mhz brian hi vlb is defined for cards by mhz and cards by mhz there are designs with mhz and vlb slots s c t mhz and slots are realy diff...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
orchid fahrenheit sparkel the answers ok thanks to all of you who responded to my post here s the official response from orchid orchid is aware of the problem the new rev of the board rev d should not would take care of the problem production was scheduled to start on april i have no confirmation that production did st...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
two questions two questions i m trying to figure out how to access cmos advanced chip setting on a eisa motherboard air that has ami bios specifically i would like to set the atclk or wait states or bus speed on this board i can t seem to be able to do it any help in this area would be greatly appreciated i am looking ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
eisa tape controllers is there a qic format tape drive that comes with an eisa controller colorado s only has isa and mca controllers thanks e mail please mark ashley disclaimer my opinions not harris marka gcx ssd csd harris com the lost los angelino
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re choosing an appropriate power supply please help in a previous article lopes cogsci ucsd edu alann lopes says the problem is that i recently had an hd go bad and someone suggested that it may have been because of an inadequate power supply how does one know what kind of wattage is necessary to run two large maxtors ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re why vesa local bus in a previous article guyd austin ibm com guy dawson says something to bear in mind is what the v in vlb stands for v for video the origional intention of the bus was to speed up the bus so that large memory to memory transfers would be faster this is espically useful in transfering data from main...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
q which of these cd rom players would you choose for os netters i need a cdrom drive as my order was cancelled and thought why not ask the net community i was ordering a nec cdr but saw so much cheaper ones that i want to know more the drive will be used to install software and if available for listening to cd s perhap...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
perfect mag mx f monitors i ve been intently following the mag thread while waiting for mine to arrive in the mail there seems to be a lot of complaints about minor alignment problems with the mx f one article contained a comment that the owner called the factory and was told that his screen rotation was within spec we...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
connecting apple laserwriter ii to ibm pc has anyone tried connecting an apple laserwriter ii to a pc do i need any special controller card or software to do that thanks for any comments sardjono insani scip nusunix nus sg
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re shopping for a new nec monitor in article qjfa inn g titan ucs umass edu dtodd titan ucs umass edu david m todd writes from dtodd titan ucs umass edu david m todd subject re shopping for a new nec monitor date apr in article qhppp gha darwin sura net wbarnes sura net bill barnes writes basically i m looking for a sv...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re wanted opinions on mag s and nanao i monitor sleeping dragon ong mang iastate edu wrote i m looking to buy a monitor soon and it seems that i can t decide what monitor i should buy i have a mag s this is a dpi version and it using a triniton tube and a nanao i in mind good luck finding an mx s when i was looking aro...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
hard disk utilities hi to all you pc gurus i m new to these groups and so please forgive me if my questions are frequently asked but i don t know the answer i ve been recently having some problems with my computer with a seagate meg hard drive i occasionally find corrupted files but most of the time programs work fine ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re recommendations for a local bus cached ide controller in article apr sol ctr columbia edu penev venezia rockefeller edu writes 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...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
ibm pc convertible parts sale i have some used but working parts available for the original ibm laptop the pc convertible if you have one of these things and still are using it you may have found out that ibm wants outrageous prices for parts i built up a supply of enough parts to keep mine going for a few years and wi...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re ide vs scsi dxb psuvm psu edu writes scsi i ranges from mb s scsi ii ranges from mb s ide ranges from mb s esdi is always mb s although there are some non standard versions the above does not tell the proper story of scsi scsi i bit asynchronous mb s ave synchronous mb s max transfer base scsi faster this requires a...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re help with bit mode for ati in article wong apr ws webo dg com wong ws webo dg com e wong writes i finally got the vesa driver for my ati graphics ultra plus m however where did you get this driver please please please i ve been waiting months for this when i tried to use this to view under bit mode i get lines on th...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re ide vs scsi dxb psuvm psu edu writes in article qlbrlinn rk dns nmsu edu bgrubb dante nmsu edu grubb says in pc magazine april although scsi is twice as fasst as esdi faster than ide and support up to devices its acceptance has long been stalled by incompatability problems and installation headaches i love it when m...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re booting from b drive djweisbe unix amherst edu david weisberger writes i have a drive as drive a how can i make the system boot from my b drive optimally the computer would be able to boot from either a or b checking them in order for a bootable disk but if i have to switch cables around and simply switch the drives...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
pc sound on a sb i read sometime in the last couple of weeks an article which desribed how to play pc sound through a soundblaster i didn t save the article and all old articles have been purged from our system here would whomever posted the article detailing where to connect the wires please re post specifically i nee...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
no bit box on gateway 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 ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
question how to get serial mouse working on ibm notebook l do you happen to know how i can get a serial mouse pins working on an ibm l notebook which has a kind of bus mouse connection besides serial and parallel interfaces the manual doesn t say anything about it i ve tried two drivers with the result that left and ri...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re laserjet iv upgrades to dpi opinions larryhow austin ibm com wrote what are the current products available to upgrade the resolution which ones support postscript any experiences with them either good or bad is the quality difference really noticable i m planning on producing camera ready copy of homes will the high...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
tandberg future domain tmc seagate st m problem i am trying to get my system to work with a tandberg future domain tmc seagate st m mfm controller the system boots up if the tandberg is disconnected from the system and of course no scsi devices found i have no other scsi devices the system boots up if the seagate mfm c...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
logitech button mouse bios routines availability newsgroups comp ibm pc hardware subject logitech button mouse pin out bios routine availability distribution world organization purdue university engineering computer network i have a logitech s f or f s button mouse that i want to interface to a serial port of a differe...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re booting from b drive david weisberger djweisbe unix amherst edu wrote i have a drive as drive a how can i make the system boot from my b drive optimally the computer would be able to boot from either a or b checking them in order for a bootable disk but if i have to switch cables around and simply switch the drives ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re soundblaster irq and port settings the cybard dudek acsu buffalo edu wrote uzun netcom com william roger uzun writes i have a soundblaster board in a sx pc and i have it jumpered to irq port h will this conflict with my parallel port i just have an ide controller a multi io board with ser par port and a vga board sh...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
bye as of today i will no longer be a contact for zeos international on the net this responsibility has been taken over by another tech davidm zeos com and i am moving up and on mo money mo money i just wanted to thank all of the netters who have supported and encouraged the participation of zeos on the net i personall...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
help installing old hd on older compaq xt we are trying to install a donated hard disk miniscribe vintage on a supercheap ancient compaq xt for use in education the only problem is that the supercheap compaq didn t come with the manual and i haven t been able to figure out how to start the setup program i began using p...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re zeos computers mspeed ccwf cc utexas edu matthew p speed writes i am looking at purchasing a system from zeos computers i would appreciate if people could give me some feedback about the quality of their products and customer service along with any advice about which systems people like thanks in advance i bought a ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
what svga excuse me to every one i am an amiga owner and tired to have the same graphic modes so i saw on nn there was a little bridgeboard that made the amiga s pc slots communicate with the stanndard amiga s slot the building mother house of this little gadget assure me that using this thing i can use all the pc boar...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
amd cpu any comments of amd microprocessors good bad thanks pat
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
leading tech question hey does anybody know anything about leading technology computers i have a leading technology sx and need a new mother board for it does anybody know where i can get one leading technoology is really made by samsung sx is samsung model sd
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
need info on high quality video card hi i need some info on video card i am looking a video card that can deliver a high quality picture i need the card to display images well for advertising company btw so it must be rich with colors and the speed must be fast too i am just wondering if somebody can advise me what to ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
comments on an accelerated video card for isa bus hi i am looking to buy an accelerated video card for my dx with isa bus i have a svga ni monitor i m currently running dos and windows although i m considering os in the future can anyone make a suggestion for a video card that would suit my needs how is diamond speedst...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
monitor with rgb sync to vga i don t know if this is an obvious question but can any of the current batch of windows accelerator cards diamond etc be used to drive a monitor which has rgb and horizontal and vertical sync bnc jacks altogether connectors out the back i might be able to get ahold of a raster technologies ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
for sale decpc sxlp for sale decpc sxlp it s in very good condition used for one year it has mhz intel mb hard disk super color vga monitor button mouse mg floppy disk drive software microsoft dos microsoft windows microsoft works for windows borland turbo pascal borland turbo c for dos i m asking for the system send m...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re monitors tony catone catone compstat wharton upenn edu wrote in article c geh n d utdallas edu goyal utdallas edu mohit k goyal writes oh yeah i just read in another newsgroup that the t i uses a high quality trinitron tube than is in most monitors the sony s for example and this is where the extra cost comes from i...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re soundblaster irq and port settings in apr walter cray com huot cray com tom huot writes i would also like an explanation of this if anyone can explain why the sb pro and lpt can share an irq please do so i think it s simply because dos doesn t use the irq for anything os does so with that you can t share the irq ans...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re ide vs scsi in article qlbrlinn rk dns nmsu edu bgrubb dante nmsu edu grubb writes in pc magazine april although scsi is twice as fasst as esdi faster than ide and support up to devices its acceptance has long been stalled by incompatability problems and installation headaches note what it does not site as a factor ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
orchid p vs fahrenheit mini review i just purchased a viewsonic and and orchid p in short i am happy with the monitor and unhappy with the card i have spent a lot more time futzing with the card so that is what i am going to write about the monitor is pretty the moires i had under simcity on my magnavox went away it is...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
question can i connect two harddisk to one controller hi i ve got a victor pc xt with a mb harddisk in it the controller is a toshiba mfm controller with an additional pins connector there are busses from my harddisk to this controller one with wires and another with wires the controller has two connectors for a wire b...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
s video card at different address i d like to add a second s based video card to my system does anyone know of a company that sells a card that can coexist with another one all i really need is color text on one monitor and fast color graphics on the other probably just a configurable address would do it
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
switch to a hi i d like to switch my floppy drives so that my b drive becomes a while my a becomes b i m having a few problems though i know that the ribbon cable must be switched as well as the cmos settings to reflect this change and i think that i ve done that correctly however the drives do not operate correctly in...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
help me select a backup solution hi netters i m looking at purchasing some sort of backup solution after you read about my situation i d like your opinion here s the scenario there are two computers in the house one is a small mb ide drive the other is a dx scsi drive w adaptec controller both systems have pc tools and...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
help video problems i am using a ibm monitor greysale with a trident mb card the screen looks great windows at x but total shit at x there are lots of lines and the image is sorta blurry is there anything i can do do you think it is the monitor i know that it is interlaced at that res but still thanks for the help paul...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re comments video blaster creative labs in article apr ultb isc rit edu mej ritvax isc rit edu writes in bu edu heiser acs bu edu bill heiser writes in article c rdy fw chinet chi il us randy chinet chi il us randy suess w rites the video blaster doesn t work with the ati graphics ultra pro doesn t work with m system r...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re int h for joysticks is slow lioness oak circa ufl edu writes i m using int h to read my joystick and it is hideously slow something like of my cpu time is being spent reading the joystick and this is in a program that does nothing but printf and joyread the problem is that a lot of programs trap int h like smartdrv ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
fujitsu and seagate ide drive compatibility i ve been trying to get my fujitsu m t mb hard disk circa to share my ide card with a new seagate st a mb one i ve tried fiddling the jumpers to set the master and slave drives without any success without the table of hard drive specs from this newsgroup i couldn t have got t...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
memory access time was re sram and simms sale ben elliston writes msg id aa f n z fidonet org posted mon apr organization compact solutions canberra act australia k of ns sram by my way of thinking michael how could this memory be static ram if it has a speed rating i didn t think sram needed a refresh time doesn t tha...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
q asus motherboards i m considering the purchase of a dx vlb system to run linux the system has an asus brand motherboard anyone have any comments on asus motherboards thanks bob craycroft craycrof rtp semi harris com systems analyst phone harris semiconductor rtp nc usa
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
specs for a wd drive greetings all could some kind sole email me the specs for a western digital drive it is model wd a with cyl and hds but i do not know the sectors per track or any of the other information i have to feed to my bios to get it up and running thanx for any help bob k roking lynx dac northeastern edu no...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
i need a definition of the spec and dhrystone benchmarks i need definitions of the spec and dhrystone benchmarks any background material would also be welcome if anyoneand email something to me or point me to an anonymous ftp server i d appreciate it thanks al dykes adykes jpr com adykes ad com
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re toshiba b cd rom any problems i have the pas toshiba combo and have no problems with it
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
adaptec asw and sony cdu about two months ago i purchased the adaptec asw driver for use with a cd rom drive at the time this seemed the thing to do as the documentation i had with my adaptec scsi controller said that this is the driver to be used with cd rom drives since then i have learn that this driver is out of da...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
do not rotate interrupter woops help aaahhhh please someone tell me what i have done my meg miniscribe at has a big sticker on the side that says do not rotate interrupter big knob here a big knob sticking off the side of the drive is pretty hard not to turn when removing the drive i turned it now the drive won t spin ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
a drive won t boot 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...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re date is stuck 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 t...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
help installing second ide drive 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 ...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re ide vs scsi in article qmgtrinnf a dns nmsu edu bgrubb dante nmsu edu grubb says dxb psuvm psu edu writes in article qlbrlinn rk dns nmsu edu bgrubb dante nmsu edu grubb says in pc magazine april although scsi is twice as fasst as esdi faster than ide and support up to devices its acceptance has long been stalled by...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re need phone number for western digital esdi problem western digital 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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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
help is my monitor dying hi recently my svga monitor has been acting up by taking about minutes to warm up previously when i first start up my pc i can see all the cmos messages ram test etc but now i ve got to wait for about min before the display shows anything and it starts up with a bright white flash this only hap...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re ide vs scsi here we go again in article apr julian uwo ca wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes in article ercc h w netcom com erc netcom com eric smith writes scsi is better because it has a better future and it has a lot of minor advantages right now ide cards are cheaper right now but will be obsolete...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
mb isa limit i was just reading in pc magazine that the peripherals in a pc with an isa bus can only access mb of memory also that some video cards on the isa bus look for a memory aperture to map their memory to so that if i wanted to put mb of memory on my pc my video card wouldn t have anywhere to map it s memory to...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re monitors i have a sony s monitor and i don t see any lines across the screen and am only using the non interlaced mode but because of the hor lines and poping that i do see and hear when i am usinf x x and x x modes and switch back to anything of less i would not buy another sony at what ever price oh ya this is i g...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re please help identify this old com ethernet card in article qhvuninnhau emory mathcs emory edu splee pd org seng poh lee speedy writes i have an old com ethernet card pc at bus that came out of a apollo workstation i m trying to identify it in order to use it on a pc the assembly number is rev and it is a bit card ci...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re changing motherboards messing with connectors in article ip portland caps maine edu jozef slaby ip portland caps maine edu writes when i changed my motherboard i had a lot of trouble getting led spkr turbo turboswitch hdd klck rst connectors correctly reconnected for example turbo switch had three wires and the moth...
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re soundblaster irq and port settings in article s ee tut fi s ee tut fi anssi saari says in apr walter cray com huot cray com tom huot writes i would also like an explanation of this if anyone can explain why the sb pro and lpt can share an irq please do so i think it s simply because dos doesn t use the irq for anyth...
1,884
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
info on genoa vlb card or other low end vlb i am looking for an inexpensive vlb card and have yet to run across any real reviews of them one of the cards the local stores are pushing is the genoa for apparently it uses a cirrus logic acc chip but i don t know which one gd one of the shops i ve spoken with claims the ca...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re splitting drives into two does it make them faster in article d q b w w infopls chi il us andyross infopls chi il us andrew rossmann writes guyd austin ibm com guy dawson writes the partitions take up disk space having or partition will cost somewhere between meg of hard disk space if you can afoord this luxury more...
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comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
re more western digital hd info needed cs sd ae maccs mcmaster ca holly ks writes 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 well i figured out how the jumpers go ...
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re help is my monitor dying it sounds like a magnavox with a sick flyback on its way out 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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re monitors catone compstat wharton upenn edu tony catone writes in article c geh n d utdallas edu goyal utdallas edu mohit k goyal writes oh yeah i just read in another newsgroup that the t i uses a high quality trinitron tube than is in most monitors the sony s for example and this is where the extra cost comes from ...
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can t write to floppy ok all you experts need answer quick machine floppy unable to write to a formated disk machine claims that disk is write protected but it is not note it ll read s with no problem please e mail or post
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re difference between vlb and isa eisa in article snx finbol toppoint de jschief finbol toppoint de joerg schlaeger writes better oss os ix are able to handle more than mb of dram if you use eisa bus has someone experience with vlb i think of scsi vlb busmaster the problem is the bit floppy dma controller which is unab...
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how to number prongs of a chip how can one tell which prong of your basic chip is number i realize there is a chunk of the chip missing so that one can orient it correctly so using that hole as a guide how can i count the prongs of the chip to find please help ren hoek internet ren ccwf cc utexas edu it is not i who am...
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help with no docs for motherboard
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pc scanners hello there i am looking out for good scanners gray scale only no color which can be connected to ibm pc compatibles also automatic tray feeding is a must can somebody point out good scanners what are things that one should look for while purchasing a scanner i do not want hand held scanners my preliminary ...
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re original ibm pc specs in article c jd j i s dutiws twi tudelft nl winfrvk dutiws twi tudelft nl r v kampen writes in article apr ucbeh san uc edu hoffmamc ucbeh san uc edu wr ites a hard drive with xt type controller can be added but i recommend not trying a full height hard drive as i have run into trouble with the...
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re possible faq question about a uart thought i d post this as well as e mail it just in case anyone else is interested in this info in article apr henson cc wwu edu n henson cc wwu edu dan jordan writes hello my question is could someone e mail me the names of manufactures of the and predecsor uarts i have only seen t...
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re ide vs scsi wayne smith wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wrote in article qk kvinnndk dns nmsu edu bgrubb dante nmsu edu grubb writes point of view why does scsi have an advantage when it comes to multi tasking data is data and it could be anywhere on the drive can scsi find it faster can it get it off the drive and i...
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re ide vs scsi grubb bgrubb dante nmsu edu wrote wlsmith valve heart rri uwo ca wayne smith writes what does a meg megs sec scsi drive cost since the quadra is the only mac able to deal with mb s and hard drives start at mb i have no idea for the mac i have the following these are all external mb mb mb mb mb mb mb mb m...
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ide mfm in same machine how if anyone out there can help i would greatly appreciate it this christmas i built a computer out of used parts for my father in law the disk drive that i installed was a seagate mfm anyway he now he would like to put another hd into this system i don t want to buy another mfm the only reason...
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maxtor drive geometry jumpers