Subject: 486DLC Lossage To: None <> From: Mark Gooderum <> List:
current-users Date: 08/31/1994 10:08:21 I had an interesting
bit...this weekend my machine started suffering bit rot.  My
brand new VL bus VGA board would drop bits and draw lines in
graphics mode, and flicker colors in text mode.  It also somehow
"lost" the line drawing charecter set, so things like the boot
banners would get Inverse chars instead...odd.  So I thought,
hmmm...40MHz board, VL bus, maybe it can't handle the speed
(suprising considering how new it is, but hey).  Slow the
machine down to 33MHz (one easy to reach jumper thankfully),
boot, and it works...  Go hunting, and hmm, the board is
misconfigured.  The dealer had the VL bus jumpers set for a 486,
but a 486DLC required the 386 jumpers (according to the
motherboard manual, and it makes sense, a 486DLC pretty much
looks like a 386 hardware interface wise...).  Fix that, back to
40MHz, and things work fine...  So probably a gentle reminder,
if you have a 486DLC and see some oddnes