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: <1990Nov13.232436.1862@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 13 Nov 90 23:24:36 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!!!!


Sounds like you have an AMI bios. Go into the CMOS setup and verify that the
shadow ram is enabled for everything.

Apparently the ROM bios is very slow and you need to enable the shadow so it
can execute out of ram (much faster).

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