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- From: adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir)
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- Subject: Re: EISA bus speed with ISA cards onboard?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.001205.20156@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: 13 Jan 93 00:12:05 GMT
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- In article <1idmrsINN6c3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> al885@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Gerard Pinzone) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, pablo@acsu.buffalo.edu (Juan P. Abonia) says:
- >
- >>Could someone tell me how the bus speed of the an EISA machine is affected when
- >>an ISA card is installed in an expansion slot. I have heard that the bus
- >>defaults to the speed of the slowest card on the bus. I've seen Mhz ratings
- >>of 8 or 8.33. Thanks for your help.
- >>
- >EISA is locked at 8 MHz just like ISA. If you want a fast bus, you will have
- >to go to VESA Localbus or PCI.
-
- EISA is not "locked" at anything, it depends on your motherboard. Same with
- ISA. I am running my bus at 12mhz (I would go higher but then my video card
- gets strange).
-
- Yeah, yeah, I know, EISA specs say 8.33hz, but that doesn't mean its locked
- at 8.33.
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