From: Nial Stewart (nials_at_sqf.hp.com)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 04:16:43 EDT
"James H. E. Maugham" wrote:
>
> IRQ errors primarily. Try running your DOS program from a DOS prompt rather
> than from within a W98 DOS window. Use the DOS configuration utility to set
> your ports correctly: http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/RMIE-3AXE3E.html
>
> Run the PS2 ? command from a DOS prompt to get all the info you might need.
This seemed to do the trick with the serial comms, although I can't quite
remember what I did. The utility wouldn't install so I just ran it from the
A drive and it seemed to work OK. I enabled the serial port and the COM
port it was on using it, rebooted and the comms were working. They seem
to work either in a DOS box or if I run the program straight from '98
so I'm happy with this now.
>
> > 256MB rings a bell, this is reported in the BIOS isn't it?
>
> No, but the Intel utility will give you this info.
And unfortunately it said 512K. It also said I've got a PentiumII, but it
said it doesn't support the speed testing the utility performs.
> BIOS: INET34WW, 11/20/99
> System/Ser No.: 26454AUXXXXXXX
> System Board Ser. No.:
> Microprocessor: Pentium(**) II processor 366MHz.
>
> If you don't get get a report similar to the above, especially WRT the
> processor, then there's a problem. The PII processor in the 600Es is _not_ a
> Speedstep enabled processor, so that's not a possible problem with your
> unit.
Everything here points to the machine being a 600E apart from the
BIOS revision and the system board number. The system board
number might indicate a 600 board, is there any way of finding out?
Would IBM know?
> > I suppose I could download the latest 600 Bios and see if that works,
> > but this could be a bit risky if the machine's not standard.
>
> I wouldn't do that at this point, let's first try to get a final answer on
> what's inside your unit.
It looks like this might be worth trying now.
Nial.
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