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- From: amund@itk.unit.no (Amund Skavhaug)
- Subject: Re: Random problem with OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.223847.22329@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology / SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway
- References: <1992Aug12.164624.27172@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 22:38:47 GMT
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- I used to have 'random' lockups at home...after 15 to 60
- minutes. Always when the disk was accessed. Couldn't even
- format with HPFS, locked up on some bad spots...LOCKED up
- os2 completely !
- So I went on changing disk, controller, ram, vga, serialcard
- and nothing helped. Well taking out the INTEL 387 DID in fact
- help some. Just before giving up...my machine, not os2 :-),
- I tried a little 16mhz sx card, and everything worked....
- (I had a 25MHZ opti chipset 386 DX) So I bought a new 25MHZ
- 386 DX mothercard, this took a cold reboot after the os2 logo :-)
- Now I have a 40MHZ AMD /opti /ami 386 DX and everything works
- great, even the old 4096 mfm disk could be formatted to HPFS.
- I have installed os2 on several selfmade clones the last year, and
- except for my own, there has been very little problems, yes ,even
- a westerndigital motherboard with everything built in and bios
- saying 1988 (?????) works (except internal error if booting dos from
- 1.2 MB B: drive, but I don't have to do that :-) Yes, the bios
- reports some very strange figures to programs like checkit also.)
-
- The moral:
- Borrow a new motherboard (and ram,HD,VGA) to see if it works when
- you swap them. By the way, in Norway you get a 16mhz sx for less than
- 200 us $, a 33 MHZ 486 for less than us $800, you should be able to
- get some working stuff for less than $1000 !
-
- --
-
- Regards, Amund Skavhaug
-
- Division of Engineering Cybernetics : Phone +47 7 594376
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