RE: Hard-drive upgrades: success story

[kress@ctpsun.ciw.edu (Victor Kress)]

At 08:33 AM 10/3/94 +0200, Antti Kilpinen wrote:
>>In message Fri, 30 Sep 1994 12:04:17 -0400,
>>  kress@ctpsun.ciw.edu (Victor Kress)  writes:
>>
>>> Several respondents will be interested
>>> to hear that bios  1.13 does not permit 32 bit access in windows, even
>>> with smaller partitions.
>>
>>Windows 32-bit access bypasses the BIOS entirely, so no BIOS update will
>>fix it.  Microsoft has to fix it.
>>
>
>Are you talking abot 750's. On a 360 I can check a 32-bit button in the 
>control panel, but not on the 750s. Our 750s run on PC-DOS 6.1, the 360s on 
>6.3. I dont know if the Windows versions are the same.
>

I was refering specifically to drives >512 Megs.  I suspect that this is a 
problem with all TP's but I was dealing with a 750.  I would guess that your 
360 has a disk drive <512 meg and the 750 >512 meg.


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