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- From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
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- Subject: Re: 4000 problems! PLEASE READ
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.090317.5737@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 09:03:17 EST
- References: <1992Nov16.142003.12937@zds-oem.zds.com> <1e8tjaINN8pn@bowen.rick.cs.ubc.ca> <1992Nov17.073316.5646@desire.wright.edu> <Boinger.06aj@myamy.hacktic.nl>
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- In article <Boinger.06aj@myamy.hacktic.nl>, Boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov17.073316.5646@desire.wright.edu> fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu writes:
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- >> Has anyone noticed the following on an A4000?: When "heavy" hard
- >> disk activity is going on the video "jitters" up and down.
- >>
- >> I have just started noticing this. I haven't noticed whether it
- >> happens on all programs, definitely when using SAS/C 6. I would
- >> suspect a power supply problem. Any ideas or similar experiences?
- >
- > Nope. But I doubt it's the PSU. I'm guessing it is due to the fact that SASC
- > 6.0 is both very processor and hd-access active. And that IDE hd transfers
- > data by having the 040 poll it. (Correct terminology?) I get the idea that
- > the display is suffering from a very high load on the bus. Have you tried
- > getting a GVP SII (v4.5) or A2091 from a friend and running SASC of that?
- >
- Well I have a A2091 I could use, but it has 5.92 roms. I really
- don't want to spend $35 a pop to get the roms. I thought the
- A2091 in the A4000 would only be able to do PIO anyway?
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- > CYa, Paul
- >
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