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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 P70 and Cyrix Cx486DLC
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.052631.11255@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <ikkerne.721647160@id.dth.dk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:26:31 GMT
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- In article <ikkerne.721647160@id.dth.dk> ikkerne@id.dth.dk ( Indiv. kurs arb. (920501#LHOE) ) writes:
- >I got an old IBM PS/2 P70 with OS/2 2.00 and is having trouble
- >replacing the old Intel 386DX, with a Cyrix Cx486DLC. It seems that every
- >program except OS/2 2.0 works fine. When using OS/2 the problem is the
- >floppy disk drive, which sometimes hangs the machine. If I attempts to boot
- >on my OS/2 diskettes, the machine hangs while processing the seccond disk
- >(Disk 1).
- >Any suggestions? One thing I have been wondering is whether the ABIOS in the
- >machine is capable of using the Cx486DLC. Is there any way to disable the
- >ABIOS?
-
- I suspect that's the problem, that there might be some timing
- sensitive code somewhere in the ABIOS. Ordinarily that wouldn't be a
- problem, but OS/2 does use the ABIOS.
-
- However, there is some sort of Cyrix utility for OS/2, available now
- via anonymous ftp from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (check the list
- /pub/os2/00Index for location). I haven't looked at it at all, but
- perhaps it will help you.
-
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