Adventures with the little big E... (PS/2 9533)
- From: wm_walsh@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 23 Jun 2006 12:58:38 -0700
Hello all...
I set out to try and find out if UZ's XGA-206 driver would work on the
9533 PS/2 "E" running Win95.
And what a deal it was! After going around and around with the PCMCIA
four-card adapter, my Eiger Labs EPX-SS1000 PCMCIA SCSI card (for a
CD-ROM drive), the Eiger drivers and the IBM "EzPlay" stuff, I got it
all working...only to have the CD-ROM drive in the 3510 suddenly fail
to read CD-R discs. (It has always done so before.) I replaced it and
tried again. (At this point I really thought about dumping the cabs
onto an MO disk and using the MO drive in the 3510...)
During this first phase, it wasn't helping matters that the IBM DOS
PCMCIA drivers were locking the occupied card slots automatically. I
finally pulled the wires leading to the lock solenoids and solved that
little problem. One of the solenoids can't be reset to the unlocked
position (it's the one for slot 4) and I'd guess it is damaged. The
others have stayed unlocked.
That time Windows 95 setup told me there wasn't enough free space on
the hard disk...supposedly I'd need 148MB free at the very least. Now
I've done a Win95 install on a 120MB hard disk before, way back in the
days of my Contura 4/25 notebook. It wasn't roomy by anyone's
definition, but it worked. All I can figure is that there must be a
difference between the OSR2/CD version of Win95 compared to the floppy
diskette version. Perhaps it is the "forced" inclusion of IE4 with
Win95 "C"?
I found a Hitachi 3GB hard disk, dug up a "Diskmangler", set it up and
tried again. This time it went off! Windows 95 setup completed in about
40 minutes (I was impressed!) and the only sign of potential trouble
was detection of a "standard VGA" display controller instead of the
planar XGA-2.
Windows booted smoothly. With a little diddling, XGA-2 came up with the
M$ driver, as did the IDE and PCMCIA adapter. (By the way, all four
slots on the Intel/ISA PCMCIA adapter are shown and they work fine. I
just finished using three of the four available slots.) APM spins down
the hard disk in an hour's time without incident. Speed is certainly
usable for an office suite of the proper vintage. Even with the hard
drive spinning, it's *impressively* quiet.
With Windows working nicely, I installed the XGA-206 drivers and
rebooted. Suffice it to say, it works quite well...the machine is
across the room, running 800x600 at 16-bit color with a 75Hz vertical
refresh rate and a Dell 17" CRT. The picture is very stable, sharp and
full of brilliant colors.
Your mileage may vary. All I can say is that the allegedly ISA XGA-2 on
the 9533 is working fine with UZ's driver.
Oh, and Louis, your announcement letter link on the 9533 "little big E"
page is wrong. It points to a *9553* announcement letter! (Oh, and if
you want to include any of this...go ahead, although I am thinking of
making a web page about Win95 on the mighty PS/2 E.
William
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