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Re: "PCI Bus Mainboard 486" & DX4-100 'Dead' ?

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From: David Longley
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <819928536snz@briac.demon.co.uk>
           Ray@briac.demon.co.uk "Ray Hyman" writes:

> > In article <819765886snz@longley.demon.co.uk>
> >            David@longley.demon.co.uk "David Longley" writes:
> >
> > Now I've got this sorted out - can you let me have your setup? I have the
> > 3.3V Intel DX100 and yes, the same manual.
> Do you mean the jumper setup or the Bios setup ?
> Let me know which and I can either e-mail or post in this group.
> 
> > How do you rate the board?
> It's not bad but at work we had 15 of them delivered with a mixture of
> Cyrix and AMD DX4's and it took some time to identify the actual cause
> of the problem. The supplier ended up swapping all 15 and fitting
> a totally different make of motherboard in the end, all FOC.
> Now that's what I call service !
> 
> I hope that hasn't depressed you too much as the boards are still not
> too bad, it's just that he couldn't afford us to have any problems when
> he is hoping for repeat orders.
> 
> BTW were you waiting up to see if Santa turned up to buy any of your
> goodies when you posted the last message :-) ?
> 
> Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all Demon Subscribers.
> 
> --
> Ray Hyman
> 
I'd be very grateful for an optimal bios setting, s I've cleared mine
as part of the problem solving exercise.

I take it you are referring to the sale of pc parts ad? Sad really..
Not so long ago, all of the equipment was state of the art as they say
now it's al going for 10% its original value. I guess the net is not the
best place to sell computer bits over a year or so old...  

Merry Xmas
-- 
David Longley
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From: David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: "PCI Bus Mainboard 486" & DX4-100 'Dead' ?
Date: 1995/12/25
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