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From: djnelso@PacBell.COM (David J. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: DTK motherboards
Message-ID: <6142@pbhyc.PacBell.COM>
Date: 8 Feb 91 16:37:57 GMT
References: <1991Feb7.012557.13458@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> <26767@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: djnelso@PacBell.COM (David J. Nelson)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <26767@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jdb@swamp.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:
>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.
>>
>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).

I have a DTK 386-20 mother board and have had problems with it. As long as
I had only 1 Meg of ram it ran fine. As soon as I installed the Ram Card
and more Ram ( 2 megs, 4 megs or 5 megs, tried all), it reports with a
criptic error message

Parity Error Segment not found
Press any key to continue

Most of the time the machine is locked now and require a reboot. This has
happend with almost every program I have. Ihave tried diffrent ram cards
and chips on both the card an MB. Still same problem. DTK doesn't really
admit to a problem, say they have never heard of this before, but will fix
for a small $160 fee. 

On the NET I have corresponded with three others with the same problem.
Seems to be more common than DTK wants to Admit. Still looking for a
solution.

Dave Nelson