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- From: btbg1194@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Bradley T Banko)
- Subject: Problems with 66 MHz 486 machines? (Dell)
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:39:01 GMT
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- We just got a Dell 486/D66 66 MHz 486 machine, and one day after
- taking it out of the box, it lost its CMOS bios configuration.
- Dell talked me through tightening the battery connections to the board.
- Two days later, while starting windows the machine hung and lost
- its bios configuration again...
-
- I am starting to think that maybe the 66 MHz motherboard technology
- hasn't been debugged enough. My 20 MHz 386 machine at home hangs
- every once in a while when I am running 2 meter amateur packet radio
- (with a 144 MHz 2 Watt transmitter right next to the machinee).
-
- Any thoughts? Or suggestions? Our research group cannot afford to
- get stuck with a lemon machine with funding the way it is. (or ever!)
-
- Thanks. Please respond via email.
-
- Brad Banko
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- Brad Banko; Dept of Physics; U of Illinois; b-banko@uiuc.edu
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