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From: d88ms@efd.lth.se (Martin Strand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Question about 386 25Mhz mother board
Message-ID: <1991Jun8.151008.15931@lth.se>
Date: 8 Jun 91 15:10:08 GMT
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Reply-To: d88ms@efd.lth.se (Martin Strand)
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
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Lund , Sweden 91-06-08
Hello !

I'm using a baby AT 386 main board equipped with an Intel 386 microprocessor, AMI BIOS and 4 Meg of 80ns memory. And  I've got some question I hope some one can help me with.

1) At start up a memory check is performed. The number of bytes checked are shown as a counter. After a CMOS party error I entered the extended set up and  just rewrote the set up and thus got  rid of the parity error. 
(I think this parity error was caused by a nasty program. Is it possible ?) . My problem is that I think the counter counts slower than before. Is it possible ? Can I do something about it ?

2) In the extended CMOS set up you can change the memory wait state. The default setting was 1 wait state but just for fun I changed it to 0 (zero) wait state. To my big surprise it worked. The computer was much  (?) faster. The Norton System Info CPU speed index went up from 12.4 to 15.8. My question : Was it a dangerous thing to do ? Why did it work ? Should I or shouldn't  I permanently use 0 wait state ?

Many thanks ahead of time

Martin Strand, student at Lund  Institute of Technology, Sweden

d88ms@efd.lth.se