chuck@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Chuck Rissmeyer) (10/06/90)
I was told by the manufacturer of my 386 PC that my Real Time Clock
Alarm function diagnostics failure is an invalid failure for AT
types of PCs. He said that the XTs use it but not the ATs.
When I switch my CPU down from 16 to 8 MHz, the alarm function tests pass.
He said the reason it fails at 16MHz is that some bit got set somewhere,
and it needs to be cleared. He doesn't know where the bit is though.
Any alarm type of programs I run work. The real time clock chip is
an MC146818P.
Does anyone have a good explanation of what's going on?
Thanks,
Chuck - chuck@npdiss1.stpaul.ncr.comdavidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (10/07/90)
In article <624@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM> chuck@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Chuck Rissmeyer) writes: | | I was told by the manufacturer of my 386 PC that my Real Time Clock [ stuff deleted, not about binaries ] | Does anyone have a good explanation of what's going on? You posted to the wrong group. This belongs in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, or comp.os.msdos.programmer. It is not related to any binary, not is any binary we post going to fix your problem. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me