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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!seas.gwu.edu!ilan
- From: ilan@seas.gwu.edu (Ilan Berkner)
- Subject: Re: PS/2 VGA, among other things!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.182208.11959@seas.gwu.edu>
- Sender: news@seas.gwu.edu
- Organization: George Washington University
- References: <1ej5hcINNbuq@mercury.kingston.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 18:22:08 GMT
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- In article <1ej5hcINNbuq@mercury.kingston.ac.uk> cs_d637@ceres (Paul Neve) writes:
- >1. It only appears to be running at 16MHz. I thought the 70s were at least
- > DX-25s. Is there something wrong with mine?
-
- Like everyone else said, there are 16, 20, and 25 MHz versions of the 70.
- I have a 25MHz, and the nice thing is that it can go to 8MB on the MB and
- I can get the "Power Platform" upgrade and make it into a 486-25.
-
- >2. If I hold down a key (any key!) and move the mouse it goes mental and
- > the mouse moves and clicks by itself. This continues until I quit whatever
- > program I'm in.
-
- Some PS/2's supposedly have a bad mouse port. I have problems with mine only
- with two programs: Gauntlet II and OS/2 2.0, although the OS/2 problem hasn't
- shown up recently, and I don't play Gauntlet anymore. Another problem you
- might want to investigate is a fault 16550 UART. The FIFO has a bug which
- makes it look like a 16540 (16450?) instead.
-
-
- >3. The VGA seems to be incredibly SLLOOWWWWWW! A friend of mine has a 286 and
- > most games run FASTER on it! Wing Commander 2, especially, when I have it
- > running with the expanded memory features. Any way I can speed it up?
- > (Replacing the video RAM with faster memory chips, perhaps?)
-
- Welcome to the PS/2 world - the computers with the slowest VGA on the planet.
- However, upgrade your system to an XGA-2, and you'll have the fastest VGA
- on the planet, plus an advanced graphics card that blows the doors off every
- SVGA card out there.
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