     17 Tyan Tomcat I and Win95 Won't Detect
Mouse ?
Tyan Tomcat I M/B, Award Bios v2.12 (latest posted
at Tyan site for this board), while formatting HD, installed Dos6.x/Win3.1
in preparation for returning to Win95 (I always do setup this way, as an
upgrade from a generic dos/win installation, because it has always worked).
Mouse worked fine in win3.1 (bus mouse), as soon as upgrade to win95, win95
unable to detect it. Tried serial mouse also, same result. Any ideas? this
looks like a bios/win95 issue to me, because it did work in 3.1.
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:54:28 GMT
From: Bob Yellin <byellin@TOGETHER.NET>
Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Tyan Tomcat I and Win95 Won't Detect Mouse
Suggestion: - Are you using the serial cables
that came with the board? There are two types of com port pinouts in general
use: IBM & Everex. The Tomcat uses the IBM pinout and most other motherboards
use the Everex. Though the mouse may function under certain circumstances
with the "wrong" pinout, it won't function properly in all cases.
The cables supplied with the board use the correct pinout for the board.
This was the solution to the problem when my mouse wouldn't work under
Win95. Hope this helps.\
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:54:28 GMT
From: "Neil D. Eisner, D.D.S." <ndedds@IAC.NET>
Subject: HARDWARE: Tyan Tomcat Motherboard/Mouse Will Not Work
Solution:- Thanks for all of the suggestions.
For now, upgrading to the AWARD Bios v3.02 (this is NOT at Tyan's Web Site,
only at their BBS, and without a title - in other words, it seemed to be
that they didn't want this version distributed) worked, but not with a
bus mouse. A serial mouse works, but Win95 doesn't detect the presence
of one or list it in device manager. Neil
| 18 HARDWARE: Removing Master HDD (i.e.
removing a physical C - & Trying to keep the software) ?
In my PC I have two HDD's. The Master is a Old IBM
170MB and the Slave is a fairly new WD 1.2GB. The IBM is configured as
Drive C: and the WD is configured as D: thru H:. I plan to remove the IBM
as it's seriously degrading performance.
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996
From: "Hans Klarenbeek" <hansie@wantree.com.au>
Subject: HARDWARE: Removing Master HDD
1) Can I just copy all Data (WIN95 et al) to the
WD HDD and set the jumpers to be the Master or is it more complicated ???
It is definitely more complicated
as none of your programmes (well large ones anyway) would work...... Since
all application's paths are stored absolutely by removing C: thus D: becomes
C: E: become D: and so on.... all those Registry entries and ini files
would spit the dummy.... You could fix these programmes but it may be less
time consuming to reinstall them.
2) Also, I plan to buy another 1.2GB HDD, would it be easier to specify this as a 2nd Slave HDD, copy the IBM to this, then set it to the master. ???
Yes! this will work a lot better.
From: "Ray D. Stambaugh" <rdstambaugh@CYBERIA.COM>
Subject: Re: HARDWARE: Removing Master HDD
I recently performed a similar task. I assume your
second drive has data on it. If so reformatting will erase all data on
that drive.
What I did:
1. Install the new drive as a slave.
2. Configured the BIOS for the second drive.
Note: steps 3 through
5 were done in a DOS window, (NOT DOS MODE)
3. Using FDISK created one primary partition using
the entire disk.
4. Using FORMAT to format the new drive and copy
the system files.
5. In a use xcopy c:\*.* d: /E /C /H /R /K This will
copy all files from c to d. See xcopy /? for switch meanings
6. Created a boot floppy disk with fdisk on it.
7. Turned the power off and swapped the drives. New
drive is C, old drive D.
8. Turned the power on and entered the BIOS setup.
Set the HDD parameters. Saved the new settings
9. Reboot from the boot floppy.
10. Using FDISK set the primary partition active.
11. Remove the boot floppy and reboot.
What you should do:
1. Since you are using the second drive, steps 1
through 4 of my procedure should have been done already.
2. In a DOS windows use SYS d: to copy the system
files.
3. Do steps 5 through 11 of my procedure. Except
remove your old drive.
19 Partitioning a
Hard-Drive so what?
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 20:39:03 GMT
From: Bob Kurke <bob.kurke@SHARPCOR.COM>
Subject: Adding hard drive partitioning question
I assume you wish to keep your cluster size down,
hence the partitions.
I have a 1.6 and formatted c,d,&e to 500, and a tiny f for some private
files that no one els has access to. I am not in any danger of running
out of space for program files. Then again I do not have tons of
software. If you do, maybe you should make the c:drive bigger, below is
the cluster to partition relationship.
| FDISK Partition Size* |
Cluster Size |
| 0-127 MB |
2K |
| 128-255 MB |
4K |
| 256-511 MB |
8K |
| 512-1023 MB |
16K |
| 1024-2047 MB |
32K |
* 1 MB=1,048,576 bytes
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 10:21:46 -0700
From: Rick Teale <rteale@S2.SONNET.COM>
Subject: Re: HARDWARE:Hard Disk
No, you can NOT use Partition Magic *in* Win95. (I'm
taking the most literal interpretation of your question). You must run
PM from MS-DOS mode.
I recommend downloading and installing the latest
update from the PowerQuest web site before you use it.
http://www.powerquest.com
If you like, I can send you a couple of their monthly
"The Partition Magician" newsletters that contain excellent technical
info on doing exactly what you want to do.
20 What's the difference between 16
and 32 bit applications?
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 17:23:11 -0400
From: grt <grt@WOW.NET>
Subject: Re: difference between 32 apss and 16 bit apps
Question:- I
have been using Win-95 for the past year and a half and am quite confused
about 32 bit apps Vs 16 bit apps. I know for a fact that there's supposedly
more you get from a 32 bit app compared to a 16 bit app in that you can
use long file names and that the right mouse has different abilities but
what makes 32 bit apps so special besides being Win 95 native?
Answer:- The
Intel 386, 486, Pentium etc use a 32 bit instruction set. A 32 bit application
can thus handle large numbers more effectively than a 16 bit one since
fewer instructions and memory accesses are required. 32 bit code uses a
flat address space (up to 4 GB) whereas a 16 bit app can see only 64K of
data at a time. To use more than 64K of data, a 16 bit app will have to
load and unload segment registers in order to get at the data. Thus a 32
bit app will be faster if it has to handle large arrays of data, perform
calculations or move data around in memory etc.
Under Windows 95, 32 bit apps are preemtively multitasked
and support multiple threads of execution. Each 32 bit app sees a private
address space (between addresses 2GB and 4 GB). It cannot see other 32
bit processes and thus interfere with them. 16 bit apps are run in a shared
address space (2 GB to 3 GB) along with system DLLs and shared DLLs. They
are cooperatively multitasked (an app can hog the system) and can interfere
with one another.
Windows NT on the other hand, runs 32 bit apps in
a private address space also. Unlike Win 95, they have no direct access
to the system DLLs and cannot interfere with them and crash the system.
16 bit apps can be run in a shared address space or in a private space
for each, again isolated from other programs and the system componants.
Thus 32 bits is the way to go. The only downside
is that with a new 32 bit compiler, some programmers take advantage of
ALL the features of the user interface. Having to upgrade also means adding
new features to the app. As a result it can get loaded with all sorts of
things and become bloated and slow.
| 21 Dual
Monitors in Windows 95 or Windows NT
Is it possible to have dual monitors in Windows 95
or Windows NT??? This issue generated a lot of outdated advise or indeed
incorrect advise - generally it was though that two different types of
card would work ok eg. a Mono card and a VGA card since they would not
share the same address space - the other strain of thought was that you
would need a specially designed card to so...
I quote:-
'Using just off
the shelf cards I believe it is not possible as the boards would have to
share the I/O Memory locations. I have heard of a card for industrial applications
that will drive two different monitors with different windows active on
each, at the same time.'
'Worth a try,
but it's not like the sound card where you can set the " preferred
" device. So it may not work. A conflict in resources will likely
show up, so one of them will not work. Assume that that card is the B &
W . The trick may be to have 2 HardWare Profiles, one disabling the card
that works so that the B & W will go .'
'I have run both
a Mono and a VGA card in the same machine, BUT in order to use the mono
card, your software has to be especially written for dual cards - in my
case the only thing that could take advantage of the second card was a
C/C++ Debugger -- not of great use for most users, and newest versions
of compilers no longer support the two video card option.'
This discussion ran along side the Matrox Millenium
vs the Matrox Mystique debate, this was rather humerous since the latter
can quite happily run 2 or more monitors if installed in multiples....
Please contact Matrox for more details
Matrox
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