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- From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: HELP NEEDED: problems caused by new IDE drive
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- Date: 8 Sep 92 16:53:15 GMT
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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.
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- If you got your new drive from Gateway, call them, their tech support
- is good. If not, well...
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