[WinMac] Re: no time for toys
Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:58:30 -0500
Dear Alex,
Which model of the Intellistation do you have? Also, which video card(s)
are you using? If you're using Matrox Millenium cards, there's a Registry
modification that fixes a driver bug related to the PCI bus. I'll get for
you and post it to this list...
Also, I threw out the adapcrap SCSI cards and installed BusLogic
Flashpoint 950 cards... Now down to $49 for the LW-950 and $24 for the
LT-930 at ONSALE.COM... These are robust, stable cards that support SCSI
bus parity under NT... UNLIKE the 2940/7880 - series cards. [This may have
also resulted in your mysterious weekend lockup, now that I think of it...]
I guess I should have added Adaptec SCSI cards & ASPI to the list of
"toys" including "screwdriver jobs," "games," & "windoze 95/98." :)
Cheers!
Dan
Reference URL's: <http://www.onsale.com/category/Mass_Storage.htm>;
<http://www.onsale.com/category/inv/00000294/01489660.htm>
At 06:54 PM 1/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>Alex:
>>
>> I don't waste my time with, nor do I service or support:
>> * win 95/98;
>> * Games;
>> * "Screwdriver job" pee-cees.
>
>I'm sorry, what is this about? I don't follow...
>>
>> Life is too short for these self-inflicted hassles.
>>
>> -----
>>
>> By the way, if you want a very good PC, check out the IBM IntelliStation
>>M's at:
>> <http://www.onsale.com/category/inv/00000200/01483318.htm>. I've set up
>>two Intellistation M's; and I personally use an IntelliStation ZPro (dual
>>200 mHz Pentium Pro CPU's).
>>[Alternate URL: <http://www.onsale.com/category/Servers.htm>
>
>We have a whole bunch at work and we're not very impressed with them, we
>keep having all sorts of video glitches with NT and the latest video
>drivers (Photoshop, when the PC is in true color mode- 32 bit- displays
>everything with a yellow tint. Only on these machines running NT).
>
>We had some DOA units, some with bad CD-ROM units, some with bad hard
>drives, things like that, and the shipment wasn't that big, we're talking
>like a 12% failure rate on our shipment.
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