Gateway 2000 PC's -- Beware of CMOS setup wording!

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Title: Gateway 2000 PC's -- Beware of CMOS setup wording!
Keywords: Gateway 2000 CMOS setup wording
Date: 06/05/96
Distribution: External
KDB Number: kdb-147
Author: MAN


Scenario: Install an NT960 on a Gateway 2000 PC. Settings for the NT960
are as follows. A=DC00 P=300 I=10.

Apparently Gateway 2000 PC's do not enforce conventional wording to
their CMOS setups. This is how the Shadow
Ram entries were worded.

1) Disable Shadow Memory Size - XXXXXXX
2) Disable Shadow Memory Base - xxxxx

1) Possible selections for XXXXXXX are: 16k, 32k, 48k, 64k, DISABLE
This is basically selecting the size of the base segment memory window to
set aside from shadow ram usage. If disable was selected then that means
all shadow ram is enabled. Say what? Check out the following!

Disable Shadow Memory Size - DISABLE
- two negatives make a positive!

So in the above scenario, a selection of 16k was made.

2) xxxxx specifies where the base memory address window, in this case
a 16k window, is to start at. We chose an address of DC000.

Another point of interest with the Gateway 2000 CMOS setup was the
exclusion of interrupt usage from the PCI bus.
Any Interrupt required for an ISA card required to be selected as used.
Therefore in the above scenario, we selected Interrupt 10 to be USED.
If an interrupt was available for PCI usage, then it would be set to FREE.

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