Path: utzoo!censor!comspec!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!ccncsu!olender From: olender@cs.colostate.edu (Kurt Olender) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Opti-486/25 motherboard Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 03:41:34 GMT References: <1991Feb12.163208.29050@astro.as.utexas.edu> Sender: news@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80525 Lines: 37 In-reply-to: gary@utastro.uucp's message of 12 Feb 91 16:32:08 GMT > Gary Hansen writes: I was looking for a 386-33, 387, 8Mb caching mother board to replace a 286-20, 287. I came across the following "deal" from a California company called Novacor. 485-25 Opti mother board $ 410.00 486-25 Intel uProcessor 795.00 8Mb, 80ns memory 432.00 128K cache board 175.00 -------- $1812.00 Does any one out there know of problems with the Opti-486 chip set or the BIOS used with it? I have heard rumors that as of about 3 months ago the Opti-486 would not work properly with the Connor 100Mb IDE disk or with any VGA card running the OAK chip set. I have not been able to get substantiation of the rumors or find out if the problems have been solved. I don't want to get caught with a board that will plague me with compatibility problems in the future. That would be no bargain at all. >End of included message Well, I have a Taiwanese made motherboard with just about the exact configuration above, except that I have the AMI BIOS and I have a Conner 104MB IDE Drive, the CP-344 model. And I have hard disk problems. Occasionally, when copying files floppy <--> hard, it crashes the machine. Even more infrequently, just doing a DIR will crash the machine. But that is extremely infrequent. Normally, it is the floppy <--> hard transfer that does it. Has anyone else had similar problems? Thanks.