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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Problem w/386 - is slow
Message-ID: <27430836.277e@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 15 Nov 90 21:27:18 GMT
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Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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In an article dlh@polari.UUCP (d h) wrote:
>MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu (Mark Solsman) writes:
>> 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.

>I had a similar problem with my 25Mhz 386AT one day. The problem turned out to
>be that something had corrupted my CMOS settings.  What I did was go into the
>CMOS monitor program and play with the clock settings. At least on my machine, 
>you are allowed to select sys clock, sysclock/2, or bus clock to run the bus 
>and memory.

What you need to change is the setting for shadowing the BIOS rom into ram.
The power-on-self-test is in the BIOS rom, and the hardware supports
automatically copying it to ram, which runs a lot faster.  Ditto for video
BIOS.

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