To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
Message-ID: <19990909.195504.10279.0.vmccar@juno.com>
References: <7quo1t$94k$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu> 
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From: Vince McCarthy <vmccar AT juno DOT com>
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 22:54:58 EDT
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

REZ
    There is an outfit called UNICORE that sells bios chips. I tried one
of  them and was surprised how fast they are.
     You need your present bios string when calling them so they can
cross reference it.
   Phone Nr: 1-800-800-2467
   Fax: (978)683-1630
   Web Site: http://www.unicore.com
    HTH   
    Vince.....

On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 23:05:41 -0700 Rez
<rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net> writes:
>aw AT mail1 DOT bet1 DOT puv DOT fi wrote:
>> You mean they don't even have ATX "soft" power buttons?
>
>Friend just got one as part of an educational package -- and reports
>that it doesn't even have a power on/off switch. I'll have to ask him
>what it does during bootup, or for that matter how it gets that far
>without using an external power strip. (Some of 'em use a special key
>for it.) He's a CNA and Win95 type and is still annoyed with it. 
>
>> Have you tried something like this on an ATX computer:
><snip>
>
>This is a reboot util, or ??  (I don't speak ASM at all)
> 
>> It works for me (under DOS and Win95), although I don't need it 
>because
>> my computer has a soft power button in front and a true power switch
>>back on the power source (of course I wish the real switch was in 
>front).
>
>Oooh, but why would you want to have control over power on/off? :) 
>And people wonder why I go out of my way to keep upgrading what's 
>inside
>my wonderful old AT case.
>
>> What do you mean "can't dual-boot"?  That sounds like a software
>> problem to me.
>
>BIOS problem, I think (I am really, REALLY starting to hate Award 
>BIOSs;
>found another hole in their HD support today, on a semi-recent BIOS 
>that
>won't accept a flash). I don't own one of the nasty things myself, so 
>my
>exposure was mostly with trying to find a quick solution for a 
>friend's
>system so afflicted. Hope I didn't catch anything :)  It doesn't want 
>to
>boot into DOS and shutdown from Win98 powers it off. So far nothing
>evident to make it behave more rationally. (He's a Netware guru &
>DOShead, not a Windows type either, but needed the system for a 
>specific
>task and took what was available on short notice)
>
>~REZ~
>

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