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Xref: sserve comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:34000 comp.unix.bsd:6891 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Question on Diamond Clock Synthesizer Message-ID: <1992Oct21.003538.7762@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1992Oct19.151409.24581@osf.org> <veit.719582773@du9ds3> <1992Oct20.200758.4449@osf.org> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 00:35:38 GMT Lines: 41 In article <1992Oct20.200758.4449@osf.org> kenny@osf.org (Kenneth Crudup) writes: > >In article <veit.719582773@du9ds3> veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de writes: >>It is well known that operating a chip outside the validated and guaranteed >>specifications *will* reduce its lifetime considerably. > >Never denied that- my skepticism is that (1) running it at a brief period of >time (at least long enough for you to see that your monitor isn't going to >sync up) at under-/over-spec divider frequencies will instantly "pop" a chip, >and (2) all this "oh no- don't use that code" hysteria seems to have been >rooted up by Diamond Legal. > >I won't have time to do anything with it for a long time; however, it's been >out there for a month now, but I've yet to hear of anyone who's actually >*used* the code, and I don't think the legal implications would be a barrier >to that. > > -Kenny >-- >Kenneth R. Crudup, Contractor, OSF DCE QA >OSF, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142 +1 617 621 7306 >kenny@osf.osf.org OSF has nothing to do with this post. > Religion: The longest-running gag ever played on Mankind. Well, according to a previous posting STB WIN/X uses a programmable clock synthetizer. I need to verify that is the same one use in the Diamond Stealth, if so, this thread about the danger of setting the clock synthetizer for the Stealth will be clarify. STB from previous posting on the net has promised to release info on how to program their clock synthetizer. Once I received the info and get a WIN/X, I will report back my findings. Also, I am interested to see if it will work my X11R5 S3 server. Hope this helps, Amancio