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- 09/01/90 Release 3.0 Page 1
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- The following describes changes to CheckIt
- since the manual was printed.
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- General
-
- A few issues of compatibility are discussed in this section. Mostly,
- this text is purely informational; CheckIt will automatically take any
- action necessary to maintain compatibility with a particular PC.
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- * CHECKIT IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE TANDY 1000, 1000A, 1000SX, 1000EX, 1000HX,
- * 1000TX, OR THE TANDY 2000.
- *
- * GENERALLY, CHECKIT WILL WORK CORRECTLY IF THE MACHINE IS A TRUE PC-COMPATIBLE,
- * WITH IBM-PC - COMPATIBLE SLOTS INSTEAD OF THE TANDY "PLUS" SLOTS.
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- DISK NAMES
-
- CheckIt refers to the physical drives installed in your PC as "Drive 0,"
- "Drive 1," etc. Since you may not be familiar with these names, CheckIt
- tries to determine the DOS names for these drives as well (i.e. A:, B:,
- etc.). The line below shows an example of how both a floppy and hard
- disk would be represented on a typical system:
-
- Floppy Drive 0 (A:) Hard Drive 0 (C:-D:)
-
- On rare occations, CheckIt may mis-identify the DOS names for the drive.
- Since CheckIt does not use DOS drive names, all functions will still
- work properly on the drive number being used.
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- COMPATIBILITY
-
- CheckIt runs on most PC compatibles, and will probably run on yours.
- Here is a partial list of the systems and equipement that this version
- of CheckIt has been tested on and is fully compatible with:
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- PC Systems:
- Amstrad PC
- ALR 386/33
- AST Premium 386/25, 386/33
- AT&T PC 6300, PC 6386 WGS
- Compaq Portable I, Deskpro 286, Deskpro 386/20, Deskpro 486/25
- CompuAdd Turbo 10, 286/12, 386/16
- Dell 310
- Epson Equity I+, II+, and Ie
- Everex 386/20, 386/33
- IBM PC/XT/AT
- IBM PS/2 Models 25, 30, 30 286, 50, 55, 60, 70, and 80
- Mitsubishi 386
- Toshiba Portable T1000, T3100e, T5100, T5200
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- Co-processors and Accelerator Cards:
- Intel 8087/80287/80387 Math Co-processor
- Orchid Tiny Turbo 286
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- Video Adapters:
- MDA: IBM Monochrome Display Adapter
- Hercules: Everex Evergraphics Plus
- CGA: IBM Color Graphics Adapter
- EGA: EGA 480
- MCGA: IBM (PS/2 Model 30)
- VGA: ATI Wonder 16-bit VGA adapter (On Compaq Deskpro 386/20)
- Compaq 16-bit VGA adapter (On Compaq Deskpro 286)
- IBM (PS/2 Model 50, 60, 70, and 80)
- Video 7 Vega VGA adapter
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- COMPATIBILITY (Continued)
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- DOS Versions:
- AT&T DOS 2.11 and 3.10
- PC-DOS and MS-DOS 2.00 to 4.01
- Compaq DOS 2.00 to 3.31
- Epson DOS 3.20
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- Miscellaneous
- Microsoft Mouse
- Logitech Mouse
- Kraft Premium III Joystick
-
- The following paragraph explains known problems with specific systems:
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- CheckIt will not test protected mode (in the System Board test) or
- extended memory (in the Memory test) on the AT&T PC 6300+ and Old HP
- Vectra PC. All other functions work normally. CheckIt automatically
- determines if it is running on one of these machines and skips these
- tests.
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- HERCULES MONOCHROME GRAPHICS COMPATIBILITY
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- CheckIt will detect and support the Hercules Monochrome Graphics
- Adapter (HGA) only when the MSHERC.COM program (on Disk #2) has
- been loaded first. To do this, insert Disk #2 and type "MSHERC"
- from the DOS A> prompt before running CheckIt.
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- Testing with Multiple Passes
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- If you are testing multiple passes with either "Test Memory" or
- "Select Batch..." and logging the results to either a disk or
- printer, CheckIt will only save the detail log to these devices.
- The in-memory log is disabled to avoid running out of memory
- during long batches.
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- The CHEKBIOS.EXE File (Disk 2)
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- If CheckIt displays "(Standard)" as the BIOS manufacturer on your PC,
- you can use this program to create a file containing the information
- we need for a future release of CheckIt to recognize your BIOS.
- Please call our support department before using for additional
- instructions.
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