Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sjsca4!poffen
From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Problem w/386 - is slow
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.223541.6964@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 13 Nov 90 22:35:41 GMT
References: <90315.214214MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <90315.214214MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu> MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu (Mark Solsman) writes:
>Intresting Problem:
>
> One day I turned on my 386/25, the usual memory check clicks 3 times a second
>while it displays the memory count, but today it clicked at the rate of 1/sec.
>
> When I press escape to bypass the memory check, instead of hearing the usual
>purr, is more sounded like a fart.
>
> I tried restarting several times, once I even got a parity error and once a
>CMOS error. The computer still works, just a little slower.
>
> BTW, When I take the machine out of turbo mode, it clicks even slower.
>
> ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!
>----
>Mark Solsman
>The Pennsylvania State University - Worthington Campus, Scranton, Pa.
>Bitnet   : MHS108 at PSUVM
>Internet : MHS108 at PSUVM.PSU.EDU


Sounds like an AMI bios. Try using the CMOS setup and verifying that the
shadow ram locations are all enabled.

Apparently the ROM bios is VERY slow, and unless you shadow it, it runs quite
slow.

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