Hello Stephen
On 08-Feb-00, you wrote:
> Hello Barry
>
> On 07-Feb-00, you wrote:
>
>> Hello Duncan
>>
>> On 09-Dec-99, you wrote:
>>
>>>
>>
>> All reports of Silver Surfer were so good I decided to invest in one.
>> Power suggested that I bought a Twister instead. To cut a long story
>> short, after 2 weeks of getting nowhere I have decided to beg for
>> assistance.
>> Has anyone out there got a Twister, & had any problems, or has it worked
>> OK? Power Computing cannot believe I have got problems with it. ( They
>> suggested that it will only run on Miami ) - very useful ! Unfortunately
>> I cannot get any browser to run under Miami ( my ISP is Free4all ) The
>> modem goes online - I can retrieve e-mails, but the browser tells me that
>> I
>> am off-line.
>> I am running OS3.0 on rev1A motherboard.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
> I had similar problems with a twister device from Power using both Miami
> and Genesis in NC3. Both stacks were telling me the twister.device could
> not be opened as it may be in use. At the suggestion of Holger Kruse, I
> ran programs such as Term with the same result.
>
> In the end, I sent it back to Power as faulty. They returned it saying it
> was fine.
>
> Anyway, the following week I had some business in Bedford so I took my
> Power Tower'd 1200 in with me and asked the boss, Tony, to check it.
>
> To cut a long story short, we swapped out my Magnum 030/50 card ( rebadged
> Apollo ) and tried a Blizzard card. Everything worked fine.
>
> As Power were out of stock of 040 cards ( I fancied an upgrade ) I settled
> for an 060/50 plus one of their IDE99 interfaces. So, in order to get 25
> UKP twister interface working, I ended up spending 330 ukp.
>
> If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I think I would have smelt a rat but
> the problem definately lay with the accelerator card.
>
> Does this help ?
>
>
>
> Regards
Thanks for the reply & I must apologise for the delay in answering you.
Further info for you.
I have an Apollo 040/25 with 16Meg & run OS3.0
After fitting the Twister & installing the driver it worked fine ( with
Genesis &
Voyager ) BTW I have been online for about 12 months with no problems.
I did notice however, that there was no speed increase - but I assumed the
net was busy - although I didn't have any connection problem.
Next day I went to log on - nothing - it would not run twister.device
I tried various combinations but ended up deleting & reinstalling
twister.device
I could now go online - again with no speed increase than I would expect
on the internal port.( connect 33333 )
Next day it failed to go online again for the same fault.
When I deleted & reinstalled twister.device this time it would not go
online.
I tried reloading my ISP through Genesis Wizard to no avail. It would not
run
on theinternal port either.
Eventually I deleted & reinstalled Genesis reloaded through the Wizard &
it started working on the internal port, but when I tried the Twister it
would not
run.
I tried using Miami but have a problem where I can get online, download
e-mails
but cannot use a browser ( this works exactly the same on both ports )
I think the hardware is OK but I that there is a software problem -
corrupting
the programs - maybe it is a patch problem.
Apologies for the length of this message.
Regards
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Barry Wiringer
Slough, Berkshire
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
-- Bertolt Brecht
