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- From: gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Geoffrey A. Coulter)
- Subject: Re: Hard disk and CPU Speed.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.080333.4561@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1eiuk1INN1v0@lucy.cs.widener.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 08:03:33 GMT
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- In article <1eiuk1INN1v0@lucy.cs.widener.edu> quairoli@cs.widener.edu (Patrick Quairoli) writes:
- >i have resently built a 386 33Mhz with 2 IDE Seagate drives, (which
- >used to be on a different 386 33Mhz board).
- >
- >the problem is this, the hard drives won't boot if the turbo switch is
- >on. so if i want to boot the machine i have to drop it to 17Mhz.
- >
- >even at 17Mhz, none of the norton disk utilities work!
- >
- >help me find some kind of solution. should i get a different
- >controller or should i try a different 386 board (yes i have a spare).
- >
- >
- >--
- >_____________________________________________________________________________
- >patrick quairoli quairoli@cs.widener.edu department of
- >rebel coordinator widener university computer science
- >"Time is a Spiral - Space is a Curve" - Rush
-
- It sounds like you have the bus speed set at clk/1 (i.e. 33mhz or 17
- mhz). Go into your BIOS and set it to clk/4, and maybe everything
- will work form there.
-
- Good luck.
-
- Geoffrey Coulter
- gac2@ellis.uchicago.edu
- coulter@guvax.georgetown.edu
-