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From article <1991Jun27.171632.2433@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, by afdenis@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (Stephen Dennison):
> In article <1991Jun15.004351.11944@unlv.edu>, elvis@hammond.cs.unlv.edu (Frederick Haab) writes...
>>In article <1991Jun14.164755.3515@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> tostan@mars.lerc.nasa.gov writes:
>>>Suppose I have a 286 pc with a floppy and hard disk, and a VGA monitor.  Can
>>>I simply pull out the 286 mother board and replace it with a 386?  Or does it
>>>have to be a 386SX?  I don't have a pc, but I want to learn some things now
>>>before buying.  Will hard disk controller cards and VGA cards work in both
>>>286 and 386 machines?  What's the difference between an "8-bit VGA card" and
>>>a "16-bit VGA card"?  Will they both work on 286 and 386 systems?  Thanks.
>

I purchased a Jameco 16 mhz 386 motherboard (baby AT style) at replaced
my original IBM at motherboard with it.  It was the best thing I
could have ever done!  I would have liked a full 386 instead of the
sx, but I can't complain too much (I only had so much money).  The
motherboard only needed new memory.  It holds 8 meg on the mb and
works with the Intel Aboveboard and AST Advantage for additioanl memory.
All I had to do to install it was populate with memory (Sipps or drams),
deinstall all of the daughter boards off the old mb, install the new
mb and reinstall the cards.  There are two 8 bit and 5 16 bit slots
on the mb.  After running setup (AMI bios), my hard drive booted
just fine!  No need to reformat the drive.  The other option I have 
seen for upgrading to a 386 is to get an Evergreen 386 Superchip II
upgrade.  The current price is $199.  Their phone number is 
503-757-0934.  No slots are necessary.  You simply replace the 286
CPU with their chip.  AMI Bios is $30 for the 386.  They claim
that you can run Windows 3.0, QEMM and a number of other systems in 
386 mode.

 
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