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- From: gettys@regent.enet.dec.com (Bob Gettys)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: HELP NEEDED: problems caused by new IDE drive
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.005603.1083@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 01:52:09 GMT
- References: <18dl4tINNd0g@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
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- In article <18dl4tINNd0g@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, jregehr@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (John David Regehr) writes...
- >I just replaced the 65 meg RLL drive in my Gateway 2000 386 with a Maxtor
- >7213A. The drive works beautifully, but it has caused some other problems
- >with my system.
- >First of all, about half of the time there are dark horizontal bands moving
- >up or down my screen. The appear for no apparent reason, and they disappear
- >when I access a floppy drive. I moved my video card so that it is as far as
- >possible from the IDE adapter, but it didn't seem to help. My video card
- >is an ATI VGA Wonder, and my monitor is a NEC MultiSync 3D.
- >Also, my SoundBlaster has stopped working. It used to use interrupt 7, but
- >now the installation program says that int 7 is taken, along with the others
- >it can use (2, 5, and 8, I think).
- >Anyway, I would appreciate hearing from anyone who cam shed some light on
- >these problems. Thanks.
- >
- >---------------------------------------------------------------------
- >John Regehr
- >jregehr@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
- >Kansas State University
- >---------------------------------------------------------------------
- >
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- I'll bet that you bought one of those "does everything" IDE adaptor
- cards with 2 serial ports, a parrallel port, and a game port. The parallel port
- is probably default configured on IRQ7. There may something on IRQ2 like a com
- port. Does your video card use IRQ2? If it is set up to do so, try disabling it
- on the video card. The video shoudn't need it. It is there to support a mode
- that is almost never used at EGA resolutions.
-
- /s/ Bob Gettys
-