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- From: affie@earley.sns.neuphilologie.uni-tuebingen.de (Ralf "Affie" Hauser)
- Subject: Re: First time OS/2 weirdnes and questions...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.151257.28650@softserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de>
- Sender: affie@earley (Ralf "Affie" Hauser)
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- References: <sNq0PB1w164w@dvss.UUCP> <gjw900.13.716037791@anu.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:12:57 GMT
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- In article <gjw900.13.716037791@anu.edu.au>, gjw900@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman) writes:
- |> In article <sNq0PB1w164w@dvss.UUCP> dvss!jtroy@udel.edu (Jay Troy) writes:
- |>
- |> My home system freezes every 7-10 days, with the HD light hard on. It isn't
- |> doing anything that I can tell. Maybe it's a hardware problem; my HD didn't
- |> like being kicked around by the WPS in 4 meg.
- |>
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- I had the same problems in the earley days of computing...
-
- I fixed the problem by changing the CMOS setup of my system (486/33, 16MB, AMI
- BIOS dated June 91, ADAPTEC 1542B):
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- There is a setting in the "Advanced BIOS setup" called:
- BUS CLCK RATE or something like that
- I can't remember the name but I can look for it this evening...
-
- Anyway, it has four (or five) different possible values
- 2,5 3 4 (5) 6
- and it determines the clock divisor for the system's bus.
-
- Anyway, I increased the value from 2,5 (33Mhz/2,5: optimal)
- to 3 (33Mhz/3: not that optimal but far from being bad)
- and everything worked fine.
- It has to do with my ADAPTEC 1542B and my disk drives (HPFS & FAT)
- but don't ask me for a explanation of why and why not.
-
- Anyway, it works!!!
-
- I hope this is of any help for you!
-
- affie
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