Hi
13 Apr 2001, "Luis A. Loeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
LL> The motherboard has an AGP slot, 5 PCI slots and an only one ISA slot
LL> very valuable for using DOS stuff.
M$ wanted that computers made after 1997 to have absolutely no ISA slot.
And to be honest ... ISA was OK for XTs with 4.77 MHz, but it can't cope
with todays needs.
LL> a 56k winmodem on a PCI slot and
LL> a Genius PnP 33.6 (full) modem on the ISA slot.
ohoh ... problems to come.
some athlon BIOSes get confused by the ISA card ... Ie the card is only
useable if you disable one of the built in COM Ports.
And ISA PNP *SUCKS* big time ... (my stonage internal 28k8 isa modem with
dip switches works just great in the athlon)
LL> The motherboard comes with on board sound using new hardware standard
LL> AC97 but comes with Sound Blaster Pro compatible Legacy sound
LL> switchable from the BIOS. Port, Irq and Dma is also selectable at the
LL> BIOS.
sounds familiat to me ...
but internal sound will only work with an additional driver in DOS.
I can send it to you if you want.
LL> The computer started ok after I messed a little with the BIOS set up
LL> (quite complicated in fact)
hmmm ??? what did you have to mess around ??
extremely strange !
LL> DEVICE=A:\EMM386.EXE AUTO FRAME=E000 I=B000-B7FF I=CC00-EFFF NOEMS
WOWOWOW ...
you can't simply tell EMM to include regions randomly !!!!!!!
emm386 noems should suffice.
after that add I=b000-b7ff (old monochrome video memory, not needed any
more)
after that you can try to add highscan ... if it works great, if not also
good :))
If you need the memory THAT desperately, you can use msd (M$ diagnostic)'s
memory feature to see a memory map, and try to include different regions,
but this should not be necessary.
LL> however I experienced some unexpected resets.
you can't simply include memory regions which the BIOS needs ...
sure that this has led to problems.
LL> After some thinking I took EMM386 out and started working ok, so I
LL> figured that some of the upper memory usage in this new video card
LL> might be different from the old Trident in P166. I ran Msd.exe and
LL> looked at memory map and noticed that the area between C8000 and
LL> CBFFF is now used by the new video card So by changing one of the
LL> parameters in EMM386 from I=C800-EFFF to CC00-EFFF solved the
LL> unexpected reset problem.
yes :))) exactly
But why do you want to include memory regions yourself ??
emm should do this by itself.
Highscan makes it a bit more aggressive, which means more memory and
chances higher that it marks used memory as available which leads to
crahses.
LL> Then I adjusted conex (short comm program) so that it matched
LL> the setpnp /C:4 /I:3 comport 4 and irq 3 to test the modem.
LL> It didn't work. I tryed several ports and irqs and in one occasion I
LL> made it dial , but after spending one full day I decided that I will
LL> try to solve this later as everything else seemed OK.
look at msds com port screen ...
if the bios has recognized all your modems :)
LL> I installed the HD and decided to boot directly from On-Track Disk
LL> Manager directly but didn't boot.
why do you need ontrack ??
LL> My son wanted only 1 partition of 30.8 GB and I decided for 3
LL> partitions D: 5.0 GB, E: 2.2 GB and F: 2.0 GB
LL> previewing I might install linux later.
wise decision ... installing linux !
For DOS you don't need an athlon :-P
LL> I copied all my DOS stuff which was in the F: partition on my P166
LL> to my F: partition in the new computer so as to minimize renaming
LL> of links and directories.
and I'm sure that some of your old programs (written in borland/turbo
pascal) will not work, I can send you a patch for that.
And maybe unp an executable unpacker, which is needed if the exe has been
compressed. (patcher will not recognize the pascal EXE without prior
unpacking)
LL> (End of part 1)
I hope that part 2 will sound better :)
The athlon is really the best CPU manufactured today ...
PS: an athlon IS really overkill for DOS :)
LL> Regards
LL> Luis A. Loeff
CU, Ricsi
PPS: Not related to this message, but I don't want to write a new one :)
But I never felt well with the definition of 'bloat' used on this
Mailingslist, so I had to share this definition, which I feel MUCH more
comfortable with. (written by Linus Torvalds [Maintainer/author of the
Linux Kernel] on the kernel mailinglist)
=== Begin file ===
Bloat is not about being big. Bloat is about being slow and stupid
and not realizing that it's because of design mistakes.
=== End file ===
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