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Article #10560Re: Hard disk and CPU Speed.
From: Geoffrey A. Coulter
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 08:03
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 08:03
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In article <1eiuk1INN1v0@lucy.cs.widener.edu> quairoli@cs.widener.edu (Patrick Quairoli) writes: >i have resently built a 386 33Mhz with 2 IDE Seagate drives, (which >used to be on a different 386 33Mhz board). > >the problem is this, the hard drives won't boot if the turbo switch is >on. so if i want to boot the machine i have to drop it to 17Mhz. > >even at 17Mhz, none of the norton disk utilities work! > >help me find some kind of solution. should i get a different >controller or should i try a different 386 board (yes i have a spare). > > >-- >_____________________________________________________________________________ >patrick quairoli quairoli@cs.widener.edu department of >rebel coordinator widener university computer science >"Time is a Spiral - Space is a Curve" - Rush It sounds like you have the bus speed set at clk/1 (i.e. 33mhz or 17 mhz). Go into your BIOS and set it to clk/4, and maybe everything will work form there. Good luck. Geoffrey Coulter gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu coulter@guvax.georgetown.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!ellis!gac2 From: gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Geoffrey A. Coulter) Subject: Re: Hard disk and CPU Speed. Message-ID: <1992Nov21.080333.4561@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Reply-To: gac2@midway.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations References: <1eiuk1INN1v0@lucy.cs.widener.edu> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 08:03:33 GMT Lines: 28