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In article <6200047@inmet>, gordon@inmet.UUCP writes:
> 
> When I installed a V20 in my PC, I found that DISKCOPY and FORMAT
> didn't work any more.  Since it was an 8Mhz chip, I had increased
> the clock speed at the same time and perhaps that was the cause of
> the problem.  In the end, the performance improvement was so
> negligible (5 or 10% with the standard clock speed) that I decided
> to put the 8088 back and buy a "PC Elevator" which is a card with
> an 80286 on it.  The V20 with an 8Mhz clock is definitely the most
> bang (50% speedup) for the buck (about $25 including crystal).  It
> just bugs me when basic utilities don't work.
> 
> 		-- Mike Gordon	(ihnp4!inmet!gordon)
	Did you check to see if your memory chips were rated at the
new clock speed? They were probably 200 ns chips. I upgraded my ram
to 120ns and the V20 worked fine...