The Hardware Shelf

Last update: 13th February, 1996

The Hardware Shelf is a selection of notes organised according to affected hardware component.

CD ROM

 * [[Image:cdrom.gif]]The CD-ROM Shelf

Video Shelf

 * [[Image:video.gif]]The Video Shelf

Sound Shelf

 * [[Image:sound.gif]] The Sound Card Shelf

Hard Disk

 * Getting the Boot (a tutorial about hard disk issues)
 * Promise Technology Inc. Products and OS/2 Warp
 * Message - HDD Controller Failure
 * Unable to load operating system from start drive
 * Micropolis SCSI-2 HDD (1GB)
 * Ontrack Disk Manager and Warp
 * Information about Partition Magic
 * Western Digital's EIDE Backgrounder


 * FDISK related problems
 * Cannot set an installable partition with FDISK
 * Another solution to the FDISK problem
 * Linux, OS/2 and >1024 Cylinder HDDs

Floppy Disk

 * 5.25" installation disks
 * Floppy drive does not recognize when a diskette is replaced
 * SYS0045 sector cannot be found
 * Swapping the A: and B: drives

SCSI Adapter

 * Buslogic BT946C (BTSCSI.ADD)
 * NCR (OS2CAM.ADD)
 * Using the NCR53c810 SCSI adapter with OS/2 Warp (and Linux) (OS2CAM.ADD)
 * Adaptec 1640 MCA (AHA164x.ADD)
 * Adaptec 1510/152x (AHA152x.ADD)
 * Adaptec 1542C (AHA154x.ADD)
 * Future Domain 1680 (FD16-700.ADD)
 * Message - "Drive 1 not ready, press any key"
 * SIIG SCSI-PRO XL-221 (XL221.ADD)
 * System hangs with adaptec 2740/2742 controller with CDROM attached

Tape Drives

 * Using Jumbo Colorado Tape Drives with OS/2
 * Dualstor + IOMEGA Tape 250 Insider

Printer

 * Try this...
 * Canon Bubblejet - unable to find printer drivers
 * Printer does not print
 * NEC Silentwriter 2 Model 90 doesn't print with OS/2 Warp
 * Canon BJ Printer stops printing when paper size changed
 * Garbled Printing on Epson LQ-1070+ under OS/2

Keyboard

 * PJ16077 - GA IBMKBD.SYS can cause hang during CD install
 * Keyboard and Green AMI BIOS - an UGLY workaround

Mouse

 * Dell - Windows mouse driver problem
 * Logitech Mouse - Right Mouse Button Doesn't Work
 * Incomplete MOUSETYPE= statement in MOUSE.INI
 * Flaky Mouse With Windows Apps under Warp

BIOS

 * The BIOS Survival Guide (BIOS31.gz) (compressed with gnu zip)
 * American Megatrends Inc. (AMI BIOS) FTP site
 * Gateway 1.00.00AF1 BIOS
 * ZEOS Pantera P90 Flash BIOS
 * Value Point 6384-199 Flash BIOS
 * Pheonix BIOS and SYS errors

Serial

 * Tutorial: PC Communications over Modems and ISDN
 * USR Modems - bad modem ROM causes problems at higher speeds
 * A note about an internal modem on COM3.

LAN adapter

 * 3Com 3C509 drivers - get 3C5X9N.EXE from 3Com BBS
 * NE2000 Ethernet Adapter - APAR PJ15955
 * IBM Ethernet II 10Base2 Credit Card Adapter
 * Using Warp Connect with SMC Ethernet Cards

Joystick

 * Tal Barenboim's note about a joystick problem.

PCMCIA

 * Installing PCMCIA Support in Warp on the Gateway 2000 Handbook
 * PCMCIA Support on Compaq Aero Notebooks

Notebook

 * Installing Warp on a Toshiba notebook
 * Toshiba 2150CDS Installation Hang
 * Toshiba 2150CDS CDROM Problems
 * Toshiba T2100 and PCMCIA FAX/modem
 * PCMCIA Problem with Dell Latitude LX4xxxD

Motherboards

 * Pat Duffy's PCI information
 * OS/2 reboots unexpectedly on PC with Green motherboard
 * Unable to install, or load OS/2 Warp on Cyrix 486slc/40
 * Green motherboard does not boot