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To: Dave Hanson who wrote (5531)	1/24/1999 7:02:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Respond to of 14778

BH6/adaptec problems. That's a pretty odd conflict--both of these are high volume products, and you'd think that they would have worked something out by now My 2920 is an old card. Perhaps I have to update the bios (I do not know if it can be updated). The 2940 is U2W and is not as popular as the standard 2940 cards. Abit recommends putting the card in slot 2 or three as they support busmastering. One guy said he could only get the 2940 to work in slot 4. I do not know if I have busmastering properly installed. The Win98 install went well and I have no yellow check marks in device manager. I have not installed busmaster drivers yet as indicated in the Abit manual. I did update the 2940U2W bios. If busmastering is software and it installs with the OS I do not think the failure of the 2940U2W bios to install is related to busmaster drivers. I am guessing I have to make some kind of change in the Award bios. Thanks for the heads up on the new Abit bios. I just downloaded it and will give it a try. I'm leaning towards either a DVD-RAM that will do CD's (if one comes out soon--unlikely) Sony has DVD+RAM due out summer 99 (so they say) ita.sel.sony.com It is backward write and read compatible with CDR and CDRW Zeuspaul

To: Dave Hanson who wrote (5531)	1/24/1999 7:51:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

have a great time at the fair. Comments on the Pomona fair. It is probably the biggest computer show in Southern California. The literature indicated 300 vendors. They were mostly small mom and pop type vendors. I could walk around at 10 AM when it opened. By noon the place was packed. I checked FRY's for Mylex controllers on the way home and the parking lot was full too. ($169 marked down to $129 for a single channel controller bt930!!:( If you look you can come up with some deals. Overall the deals we have uncovered on the Internet are about equal. I only found a couple of vendors with the Maxtor 17 gig drive out of 20 +/- harddrive vendors. There was one guy selling it for $285 which edges out the best deal I have seen on the web. Only one guy had the IBM 14.4 gig drive. I looked everywhere for the ATI expert 98 PCI card. Lots of AGP versions ($65 best credit card price) but no PCI. One vendor had the Sony CDRW drive for $345 credit card (under 300 at buy.com) The HP CDRW drives were cash $315 and up. Similar to web pricing. I had been told the prices were VERY low due to the extreme competition. The prices are low compared to the local superstore (Fry's HP 8110i drive $399!). They are on a par with Internet pricing. The Internet has them beat with the variety. No one had the Mylex SCSI controllers. I did pick up a 'spare' Celeron 300A retail (he said, no box or printed warranty slip but has factory fan) for $75. Most vendors had a good variety of CPUs but a lot of them were sold out of the 300A. A lot of ASUS and Abit mainboards. Now I have to figure out what to do with the spare Celeron 300A<G> It is back to surfing for me..too much driving and too much time for no gain. Zeuspaul