25 Jul
2006
25 Jul
'06
11:25 a.m.
On Tue, July 25, 2006 8:24 am, Zane H. Healy said:
The PowerStorm 300 will be a great upgrade from the Elsa Gloria Synergy card
I currently have. The Elsa Gloria is total garbage, the screen "ripples"
when scrolling to fast. Besides from the little details I had, I rather
assumed that the video card was a piece of junk (Wierd Miata alpha-numeric
string), and the correct P/N was on the bulkhead! So it was a nice
surprise.
Still for me the best part is the U2W SCSI, which gives me some real
incentive to do the disk upgrades I've been putting off. Of 6 18GB drives,
only 1 is currently an LVD disk, luckily that is the system drive. I'll
most likely upgrade the other 5 disks to 36GB LVD (assuming I have enough
in my stash). That alone will hopefully buy me at least a slight speed
increase. It should definitely help in rebuilding a shadow set!
Zane
Someone from comp.os.vms said it's the mainboard as well. I was
unable to find the document you're referring to, however, the fact
that it doesn't complain when some or *ALL* of the RAM is missing, is
a pretty good sign it is a dead system. Thanks to the Powerstorm 300
and KZPCA (U2W SCSI), both of which I've verified are good thanks to
my PWS 433au, I don't feel like I got ripped off that bad, but it
really ruined my day. :^(
Bummer :o| We can still get XP1000 mainboards at work but you're talking
$$$ for one because someone has already parted out a working system, but I
guess you knew that already :) Resellers in the UK want $$$ for the
Powerstorm card too so it's not all bad.
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