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Article #42144Re: 286 -> 386/386sx motherboard upgrade
From: Stephen M. Dunn
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1990 03:23
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1990 03:23
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In article <1990Feb9.062246.3508@cs.uoregon.edu> akm@spencer.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal) writes:
$A number of people have mentioned that they upgraded their
$motherboards, and I have a question in relation to that. How concerned
$does one need to be about the speed of the cards plugged in to the
$machine right now? To be more specific, if I take the cards (drive
$controller, video, serial/parallel, but not memory) out of a
$12 MHz AT, and plug them into a 386/386sx motherboard, can I expect
$them to work?
The standard speed for an AT I/O bus is 8 MHz, and most clones
obey this; I would imagine that 386SX and DX boards also use this
speed so that you can plug in standard cards, although many of the
newer cards will run at higher speeds. So you _should_ be okay
taking the cards out of your AT and plugging them into a DX or SX
board.
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Stephen M. Dunn cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lethe!geac!maccs!cs4g6ag From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: 286 -> 386/386sx motherboard upgrade Keywords: motherboard upgrade Message-ID: <25D4DABF.3304@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Date: 11 Feb 90 03:23:43 GMT References: <1990Feb9.061343.3419@cs.uoregon.edu> <1990Feb9.062246.3508@cs.uoregon.edu> Reply-To: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn) Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Lines: 20