Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:10021 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:9332 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!shodha.enet.dec.com!csc32.enet.dec.com!j_manning From: j_manning@csc32.enet.dec.com (John Manning) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: DTK keen 3304, 386, 33MHz system Message-ID: <3272@shodha.enet.dec.com> Date: 3 Jun 91 17:27:24 GMT Sender: news@shodha.enet.dec.com Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Distribution: usa Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 43 In article , skipm@dorsai (Dorsai SysOp) writes... >amitava@ei.ecn.purdue.edu (Amitava Das) writes: > >> i am planning to buy a DTK, 80386, 33MHz system. can someone comment on >> their performance and problems. any suggestion is highly welcome. >> > >I'd stay away from DTK. I've had several bad experiences with their BIOS >chips and their motherboard designs in general. I cannot tell you for >sure if they are still selling the original 386DX motherboards they >did a year ago, but I can tell you they stunk - the kicker was - one >day I called DTK asking for distributors of their RAM cards (DTK uses >a proprietary edge configuration on their cards), and they told me >they no longer manufactured them, BUT, they still were manufacturing >the motherboards that used them. That kind of customer support >I can do without. > Different strokes I guess. I have had a system with a DTK motherboard since August of '90 and have not had a single problem with it or the DTK BIOS. I haven't had any trouble getting any software to run and all of my hardware(internal modem, soundblaster, Seagate SCSI controller, multi-io board, Super VGA card) have worked without a hitch. I have filled the motherboard with 4 1mbX9 simms and wish I could go higher without having to replace them with 2 4mbX9 simms but I guess that is life. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Rudy's on a train to nowhere, | | John Manning | halfway down the line. | | j_manning@csc32.enet.dec.com | | | | "Rudy", Crime of the Century | | | Supertramp | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------