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From: quimby@madoka.its.rpi.edu (Quimby Pipple)
Subject: Re: Everex computers and IDE drives
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References: <43702@netnews.upenn.edu> <1991May24.171438.23870@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 31 May 91 07:04:32 GMT
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Everex, in addition to making the boards for their Steps, makes boards
for other OEM's.  I'm pretty sure they were making OEM motherboards for
a couple of years before the Step line came out.  It's unusual to have
problems with their tech support staff, and it's very unusual to have
compatability problems with their motherboards.  
  
The main difference between the Step and OEM boards, in the 386 machines,
is the caching system.  I've never had any reason to try it, but I 
would suspect that plain a vanilla BIOS would run on a Step 286, although
it wouldn't drive the "star wars" panel.

It's also interesting that your dealer doesn't seem to enter into the
picture (although I could be missing something here).  One of the 
great things about a dealer is that they're the ones that are supposed
to handle the hassles of getting everything to fit together correctly.
If they don't, they're not doing their jobs, and you should be shopping
around. (Or complaining)

Quimby
 
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