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In article <24JUL199209035496@zeus.tamu.edu>, rcg1597@zeus.tamu.edu (GUYNN, RICHARD CARL) writes:
> 
> 	I have seen quite a few people talking about the fact that they have 
> upped the bus speed on their boards.  I was just wondering, is this simply done 
> by replacing the oscillator crystal?  Or is there something else that must be 
> done with the crystal changeout?  Ids there an easy way to determine whether the 
> board will support the new speed?

My Gateway 2000/386 has a little switch on the motherboard that can be set to
`high speed' if the user wishes.  I believe it changes the number of wait states
in the bus protocol, or some such..

Gateway sets it to `low speed' and inserts a sentence in the hardware manual
that says `increase speed at your own risk'.

I did.  Then spent many frustrating hours trying to figure out why the file
manager of MS-Windows 3.1 would freeze up when I touched drive a: or drive b:
icon.  It would operate just fine under DOS, which kept me from guessing that
it might be the bus speed causing problems.  I had to set the speed back in order
to get Windows 3.1 file manager to work right again.

So, try it.  Change nothing else for some time and verify it all still works.

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