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Article #1Help: Where to buy PC BIOS near Mtn View?
From: Marty Rattner - SMCC Professiona...
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 19:46
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 19:46
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I just upgraded my 386-25 PC clone (made by Tangent) to Windows 3.1, and I'm getting frequent crashes--usually, General Protection Faults--in 386 enhanced mode; the problem doesn't seem to occur in Standard mode. The problem always seems to occur during disk activity. It usually happens when running Ami Pro but I've seen it crash in the same way running the vanilla Microsoft Win 3.1 accessories. The mother board is called "386A"; I'm not sure who the manufacturer is (BSI?-- I believe it's from Taiwan). The tech support people at Microsoft and Tangent tell me that it might help to upgrade my ROM BIOS chips to a newer version. I currently have an AMI BIOS dated March '89. Can anyone recommend a good place near Mountain View to buy a ROM BIOS? What should I expect to pay for it? Any preferred brand or type? One feature I'd appreciate is a faster power-on memory test! Thanks in advance, --Marty Rattner marty.rattner@corp.sun.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!ames!sun-barr!news2me.ebay.sun.com!jethro.Corp.Sun.COM!ufo.Corp.Sun.COM!marty From: marty@ufo.Corp.Sun.COM (Marty Rattner - SMCC Professional Services) Newsgroups: sun.pc-interest,ba.market.computers Subject: Help: Where to buy PC BIOS near Mtn View? Followup-To: poster Date: 1 Sep 1992 19:46:14 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 23 Distribution: ba Message-ID: <la7i46INNe0@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: ufo.corp.sun.com Keywords: AMI BIOS PC clone