ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) (08/08/90)
> Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc > Subject: v07i106: infop100, get info on system hardware > Summary: Display hardware confiuration : > This is a program which gives you pages of information about the > system on which it's running. It seems to recognize variations, > knows a PS/2 when it sees one, and generally helps you figure out > what is in the box without opening it. : > I highly commend this program. Rate it A+. > > Submitter says: > > This is a replacement for SYSID50.ZIP on SIMTEL20. It is a > program that contains 16 pages of usefull information on your PC > computer. This version corrects a major '386 bug in SYSID 5.0. : Also I have now taken a look at this program by Andrew Rossmann built on Steve Grant's sysid44, and find it quite comprehensive with useful TP sources. There are interesting interrupt tricks for Turbo Pascal programmers to be learned from there. For those of you who may prefer anonymous ftp, I shall make it available as (/pc/pd2/) infop100.zip at chyde.uwasa.fi, Vaasa, Finland. The program is not flawless. On my 25Mhz 386 page 2 (the CPU information page) freezes my PC so thoroughly that a cold boot is required. This is, of cource, highly annoying. Perhaps the code in PC System Programming by Michael Tischer, Abacus, 1990, for detecting the cpu might be of interest to the author. It works ok on the PCs I've tried. Furthermore, the information page 17 will explode all over the screen on my CGA Zenith Z-181 laptop (on the VGA 386 no problem on page 17). ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun
db21@cbnewsc.att.com (david.beyerl) (08/08/90)
In article <1990Aug7.200712.16959@uwasa.fi>, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes: > > Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc > > Subject: v07i106: infop100, get info on system hardware > > Summary: Display hardware confiuration : > The program is not flawless. On my 25Mhz 386 page 2 (the CPU > information page) freezes my PC so thoroughly that a cold boot is > required. This is, of cource, highly annoying. When I run this program on my PC6300/640K/8087 having dual floppy drives, a 40M Hardcard and AST-EMS board/1M, it locks my machine up on screens 14 and 15. Screens 1 through 13 and 16 all appear to be OK in that they do not cause any annoying side-effects. On screen 14 the cursor stops about half-way down the page and just sits there. On screen 15 I get a full display and can flip between the multiple parts of the long display, but that's all she wrote! To get out of screen 15 I have to do a boot. Dave Beyerl att!ihlpl!db21
alfred@dutepp1.tudelft.nl (Alfred Kayser) (08/08/90)
ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi LASK) writes: >> Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc >> Subject: v07i106: infop100, get info on system hardware >> Summary: Display hardware confiuration >> I highly commend this program. Rate it A+. >> Submitter says: >> This version corrects a major '386 bug in SYSID 5.0. > The program is not flawless. On my 25Mhz 386 page 2 (the CPU >information page) freezes my PC so thoroughly that a cold boot is >required. This is, of course, highly annoying. I 've tested infoplus on a IBM PS/2 Model 70 (16 Mhz 386) and in page it freezes indeed the PC. After a cold boot it reports error code 302 whatever that means... I don't believe that a major 386 bug is fixed. It looks like that it don't work on a 386 in general! P.S. No pun intended -- -- Ir. Alfred Kayser. PACS, OS/2, TCP/IP. --- Email: AKayser@et.tudelft.nl -- -- CARDIT, Delft University of Technology ------------ Tel: (31)-15-786179 -- -- P.O.Box 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands ------ Fax: (31)-15-784898 --