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From: acook@athena.mit.edu (Andrew R Cook)
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Subject: Re: i486 burst mode on Micronics MB?
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Date: 6 Feb 91 15:02:42 GMT
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In article <12328.27af2b88@ecs.umass.edu>, daly@ecs.umass.edu (Bryon Daly, ECE dept, UMass, Amherst) writes:
|> Hello everyone,
|> 
|> Does anyone out there know if the Micronics 486/25 motherboard takes advantage
|> of the 486 burst mode?  I am upgrading my 386/33 to 486/25 at Gateway (if you
|> work it out, the 486/25 is MUCH more cost effective), but the Gateway people
|> can't seem to give me a straight answer to this question.  Or the question of
|> how much memory I can put on the board.  Do any of you have any answers?
|> 
|> The Gateway tech support has fallen apart the past few weeks...it's very hard
|> to get through, and the tech support people don't seem as knowledgeable as the
|> ones I have talked to previously (new staff?).  Neither tech rep knew what
|> the 486 burst mode was.  After I explained, one said that I needed an EISA
|> board for that (she must have been thinking of the EISA bus burst mode).  The 
|> tech rep I asked about how expandable the memory was said 4MB max.  (The system
|> I ordered has 8MB on board).
|> 
|> It seems that Gateway's burst of popularity, coupled with dirt cheap prices,
|> has placed strain on their previously-good tech support.
|> 
|> Well, if anyone can answer my questions, I would appreciate it.
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> Bryon Daly
|> daly@ecs.umass.edu

If they can't even tell you how much memory you can put on the Motherboard, let
alone use of burst mode,  you are buying from the wrong company.  If they can't
tell you about basic things like memory capacity, what else don't they know?
If their tech support can't figure out how much memory the board can hold, how
can you expect they could fix a *real* problem ?

Andy