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From: jdb@swamp.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DTK motherboards
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Date: 7 Feb 91 15:19:02 GMT
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In article <1991Feb7.012557.13458@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> loc@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM (Leigh Clayton) writes:
>
> There's just been **another** post claiming that DTK motherboards are to
>be avoided. I have only one connection with DTK .. I own one of their
>motherboards. I have had no trouble with it to speak of, and I have several
>times asked this group to give an actual instance of a DTK motherboard
>problem. I've never received a response.
>
> The recent post said their motherboards are 'incompatible'. If this is
>referring to the BIOS, all I can say is that I've run Windows 3, Excel,
>Corel, Norton, Fastback, QEMM, and some other homebrew stuff and never
>seen any problems. I've never tried booting my Unix system on that box, but
>short of doing that I can't imagine what else I could do to it to give it
>a chance to fail. Please, if you post incriminating remarks, post some
>some specifics. Passing along 'urban legends' isn't doing anyone any good.
>
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>loc@tmsoft.UUCP                     uunet!mnetor!tmsoft!loc
>loc@ipsa.reuter.COM                         (Leigh Clayton)

The specific instances that I had referred to in one of my previous posts
were:

DTK BIOS will not run OS/2 (according to Byte magazine).

DTK bus caused WD-1006SRV to fry, taking the other peripheral boards with
it.  This was attributed to the WD not being able to sync with the bus.
The WD worked fine in a VIP machine.

DTK bus would not work with a clone EGA card with 120ns video ram chips.
Had to use a Paradise with 100ns chips.  EGA card with 120s worked fine in
all other systems we tested (About 5 others).

Brian

PS Sorry if this is a little accusatory, but I've also had a bunch of small
problems with them, too small and frequent to post about.