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From: saify@cbnewsl.att.com (saify.lanewala)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Gateway 2000 with Micronics board problem
Keywords: 386, Micronics, Phoenix BIOS, SVR4, Problem
Message-ID: <1990Oct26.202958.15901@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 26 Oct 90 20:29:58 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Hi!

Our group bought a Gateway2000 25MHz/386 with 16MB RAM, no cache, 300
MB disk.  I installed SVR3.2 on it and have had absolutely no problems
with it.  The board is a BTC 386 25MHz board using the AMI BIOS.

Because of the above, I purchased three more Gateways, except this time
I asked for 25MHz with 32K cache.  I installed SVR4.0 on it.  This machine
hangs when running large "makes" consistently -- so it seems it should be
a memory problem.  This machine has a Micronics 25MHz 386 running Phoenix
BIOS.  For some bizzare reason, the Phoenix BIOS insists on moving
256K from reserved memory to extended memory and I cannot figure out how
to turn that off!!  Further, if I remove the optional 12MB memory board
(leaving 4MB on the motherboard), this memory relocation does not happen.

Anyway, I install SVR4 on the machine, and periodically it hangs.

Q:  Is it SVR4?
Q:  Is it the Phoenix BIOS?
Q:  Is it Micronics?
Q:  Is it the cache?
Q:  Can I subsitute AMI BIOS instead of the Phoenix BIOS?

Any clues will be greatly appreciated.  Please send me EMAIL rather than
responding to the net -- I don't get onto the net regularly, and any posts
older than 1 week are purged, so ......

Thanks.


Saify Lanewala
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