Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rochester!ur-tut!akk2 From: akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (A Kacker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Do hard cards work in PC's? Message-ID: <899@ur-tut.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Dec-86 18:37:46 EST Article-I.D.: ur-tut.899 Posted: Sun Dec 14 18:37:46 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 03:20:19 EST References: <24@bcsaic.UUCP> Reply-To: akk2@ur-tut.UUCP (A Kacker) Distribution: na Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center Lines: 33 In article <24@bcsaic.UUCP> paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen) writes: >One of my coworkers has an old IBM PC (not an XT) that he is trying to >add a hard card to. At first the drive appeared to work OK, but then he >started seeing parity check errors. Diagnostics showed random flakey >memory errors. He replaced the power supply with a 150W unit. The >power on self test now reports error number 131. Diagnostics report the I have some questions along the same lines. We have two IBM PC's in our office for the secreteries to use. One of them is a PC and the other an XT. We bought an Omega Hard Card 20 for each machine and started having strange problems. On the XT which had a Paradise card and an Amdek monitor, the screen would sometimes just go blank and the computer would lock up and the only alternative would be to power up again. We used another Graphics card and another monitor and still had the same problem. The problem it seems was that the hard card was in the slot next to the Graphics card and the interaction between them was causing the blackouts. Well, when we had that problem fixed, we started getting occasional Drive C: not recognized errors. If we turned the machine off and then on again Drive C: would be just fine. We had this problem on both Hard Cards. The dealer told us that Omega had come out with a newer model and replaced our drives with the new ones. This was last Friday and we had the Drive C: error again once. My question is this. Does anyone have any experience with the Omega Hard Cards and would know why we are experiencing this intermittent problems ? -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ atheism all the way!! Atul Kacker UUCP : {allegra|seismo|decvax}!rochester!ur-tut!akk2