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MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company Kingston Technology’s MCMaster 486DX4 Processor Upgrade Micro Channel Adapter User’s Guide Part No.
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MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company T ABLE O F C ONTENTS Introduction ................................ ............................................ 1 General Description .................................................... 2 Package Co n ten ts .
Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Appendices ................................................................ .......... 1 1 Appendix A Configuration Options ........................... 12 Appendix B MCMaster Software Utilities .
General Information 1 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company Introduction Congratulations on the purchase of your Kingston MCMaster. This guide will take you through the basic steps of physically installing MCMaster into your PS/2 system and configuring the system.
2 General Information Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 General Description The Kingston Technology MCMaster processor upgrade board is a busmaster processor upgrade card.
General Information 3 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company Package Contents The Kingston MCMaster package should contain the following items: • MCMaster Processor Upgrade Circuit Board • MCMaster Option Diskette • User’s Guide If any item is missing or damaged, contact your Kingston dealer for a replacement.
4 Hardware Installation Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Hardware Installation Install the MCMaster processor upgrade following these steps: Preparing your Reference Disk 1. If you have not previously made a backup copy of the Reference disk that came with your PS/2 computer, you should do it now.
Hardware Installation 5 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company Please verify that any SIMMs supplied by anyone other than Kingston meet the IBM specification before using them. The table below shows all o f the SIMM types that can be installed in MCMaster.
6 Hardware Installation Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Installing SIMMs 1. Place the MCMaster board onto the anti static bag on a flat surface with the component side face up and the edge connector toward you. 2. Insert the edge of the SIMM into the socket with pin 1 t o your right.
Hardware Installation 7 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company Installing the MCMaster 1. Make sure that the system power switch is OFF. 2 . Unlock and remove the system cover. Your PS/2 Quick Reference provides detailed instructions for removing or reinstalling the cover.
8 Configuring the System Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Configuring the System At this point, you've finished physically installing MCMaster in the system. The next step is to configure the system to acknowledge MCMaster's presence.
Configuring the System 9 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company If you press the 'o' key now, control will return to the system's own processor.
10 Configuring the System Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06.
11 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company Appendices.
12 Appendix A Configuration Options Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Appendix A Configuration Options For most installations the automatic configuration will suffice.
Appendix A Configuration Options 13 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company If you use the MCMaster driver, place it after the driver for the memory board in your CONFIG.SYS file. For example: DEVICE = [Memory board driver].SYS DEVICE = MMPIDD.
14 Appendix A Configuration Options Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 ;remove semicolon from next line ;if you wish to use INITPROG ;initprog 80 Edit the line with "initprog 80" to delete the semicolon. The two lines should now read: ;remove semicolon from next line ;if you wish to use INITPROG initprog 80 5.
Appendix A Configuration Options 15 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company Interrupt Level Default: Level 15 Options: Level 10 Level 12 This selects the hardware interrupt level that the MCMaster uses.
16 Appendix A Configuration Options Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Flush Mode Default: Mode 1 Option: Mode 2 Mode 3 This option controls the method that the MCMaster uses to maintain hardware cache coherency when the MCMaster is being used with other busmaster adapters including a number of SCSI disk controllers.
Appendix A Configuration Options 17 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company Memory Options Default: Mapped, report all Options: Unmapped Report MCMaster memory Mapped, Report al.
18 Appendix A Configuration Options Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 The disadvantage is that you can't have any other memory boards in th e system. I f your system has only 1 megabyte o n the planar, this is not a great loss.
Appendix A Configuration Options 19 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company Summary This table does not cover every possibility, but it should b e helpful in selecting memory options based on your system's configuration.
20 Appendix B MCMaster Software Utilities Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Appendix B MCMaster Software Utilities The MCMaster is designed t o function as a self-contained product. In most installations, all the special program code required t o make the MCMaster function is contained in its option ROM.
Appendix B MCMaster Software Utilities 21 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company MMUPD.BAT Automatic EPROM Update If the new code is supplied t o you on a diskette o r if you download the new code from the Kingston BBS ( which comes in the form of a self- extracting executable file), there will be a file, MMUPD.
22 Appendix B MCMaster Software Utilities Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 • Don't power off the system while the program is running. EPROM.EXE notifies you as it completes various steps of it s operation, but it is not finished until it says so.
Appendix B MCMaster Software Utilities 23 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company s Start MCMaster (in connection with one of the other switches). If the i or r options are used and the Device Driver is being used t o start up the MCMaster, the s option must also be used.
24 Appendix B MCMaster Software Utilities Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 double-click on the filename. SYSTEM.INI will load into the Windows Notepad.) 3 . Find the line that reads: device = *VDMAD 4 Change it to read: device = mmvdmad.
Appendix B MCMaster Software Utilities 25 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company For OS/2 1.2 and pre-1991 OS/2 1.3 DISK02.SYS is a replacement for the driver supplied with OS/2. If you're not absolutely certain which driver you need, it would be a good idea to copy the DISK02.
26 Appendix C Troubleshooting Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Appendix C Troubleshooting We have made every effort t o make the MCMaster as easy to install as possible.
Appendix C Troubleshooting 27 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company MCMaster Error Messages The MCMaster Option ROM displays one of several error messages when i t encounters a hardware problem. The ROM will display one of these error messages and halt the system to prevent data corruption.
28 Appendix C Troubleshooting Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 How to isolate problems If you have a problem with one particular peripheral or program, you may want to isolate the problem to determine if the problem is caused by interaction between the MCMaster and a particular piece of hardware or software.
Appendix C Troubleshooting 29 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company Using the MCMaster Diagnostic Kingston provides a diagnostic program, MMDIAG.
30 Appendix C Troubleshooting Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Attributes are SELECTED and LOOPING. Once you have positioned the highlight bar over the test you wish to select or loop on The attribute may be changed using the following Keys: L - Toggles Looping on and off.
Appendix C Troubleshooting 31 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company it will show its results in the status window. If any tests fail, the program will display error messages in red. The test list is divided into columns. The column headings, across the top of the window, mean: Test: The name of each test to be performed.
32 Appendix C Troubleshooting Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Running Individual Tests To run an individual test, simply point to the test b y moving the green highlight bar to that test, and press [R] or [Enter]. This will cause the test to run once.
Appendix C Troubleshooting 33 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company correctly from the MCMaster's processor, and can only be run from the original processor as described in the previous section. The tests that can run from the MCMaster side are: • Test Board ID • The three DRAM tests.
34 Appendix C Troubleshooting Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Interpreting the Results If the board fails the EEPROM test, try reprogramming the EEPROM using t he EPROM.EXE program supplied with the MCMaster option disk.
Appendix C: Troubleshooting 35 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company Hardware Issues In the several years that the MicroMaster, and now, the MCMaster product line have been in existence, we've accumulated a fair amount of experience with what problems might arise.
36 Appendix C Troubleshooting Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 IBM 386 Enhanced Memory Adapter This adapter comes in two types. One uses a track 0 initializer, and the other has a ROM. T o determine which is which, boot from your Reference diskette and go to the configuration screen.
Appendix C: Troubleshooting 37 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company If you are using a third-party memory board that allows you to configure the board as either EMS or Extend.
38 Appendix C Troubleshooting Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 If you upgrade your system to a 486 after installing DOS 5.0, there are a few steps you can take to take advantage of these features. 1. Insert a call t o EMM386.
Appendix C: Troubleshooting 39 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company The Solution The solution is t o edit your CONFIG.SYS after the installation is done. Make the disk cache about half the size of the MCMaster memory. Version 3.
40 Appendix C Troubleshooting Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 QEMM-386 If you are using QEMM version 5.0 or higher, there is a file called MCA.ADL that QEMM uses to identify option ROMs in the system. T o make QEMM aware of the MCMaster's Option ROM, you should edit MCA.
Appendix C: Troubleshooting 41 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company DOS 3.3 Users For the MCMaster to work under DOS 3.3 with the Stealth 'M' mode, yo u must include the driver QEMMFIX.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS file. This driver appears in your CONFIG.
42 Appendix C Troubleshooting Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 MCMaster and the Intel Above Board Some versions of the Intel Above Board use a boot track initializer; this means that, in order for the PS/2 to "see" the Above Board's memory, the Above Board has to be initialized by a small program.
Appendix C: Troubleshooting 43 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company OVERVIEW In the early days of the PS/2 computers, there was no easy way to install non- IBM memory adapters so that the system 'saw' the memory.
44 Appendix C Troubleshooting Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 1. Installing the MCMaster with the Intel Above Board already installed 1. Remove any Expanded Memory Managers from the CONFIG.SYS file. 2. Run SOFTSET (from INTEL) and set the amount of Expanded Memory to 0 .
Appendix C: Troubleshooting 45 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company 2. Installing the MCMaster and Intel Above Board together It is preferred that you install the Intel Above Board first, and then install t he MCMaster. T o d o this, see section 1 on the previous page.
46 Appendix C Troubleshooting Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 message saying "Could not find the Intel Above Board 2 Plus initialization file," either the set configuration program removed i t or you have the newer version of the Above Board.
Appendix C: Troubleshooting 47 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company 11. Remove the INTEL diskette and insert the MCMaster diskette. Type: A: [Enter] setinit i008e.adf [Enter] 12. Remove the diskette and reboot the system. This will look for a file named I008E.
48 Appendix C Troubleshooting Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 How to Reach Kingston If you have any problems, questions, o r comments associated with installing or using your MCMaster, please call Kingston Technical Support.
Appendix D Product Warranties and Notices 49 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company Appendix D Product Warranties and Notices Limited Warranty KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY COMPANY ("Kingston") warrants that this product is free from defects in material and workmanship.
50 Appendix D Product Warranties and Notices Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Warranty Claim Requirements To obtain warranty service, return the defective product, freigh.
Appendix D Product Warranties and Notices 51 MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Kingston Technology Company F.C.C. Class B Certification This device has been tested and found to comply with limits for Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
MCMaster For Internal Use Only Kingston Technology Company MCMaster User’s Guide - Rev. B06 Revision History Revision Level Comments A First Release. B Changed the order of sub-sections in Hardware Installation section. Added Flush Mode Option. B1 Added INSTOS2 utility to Appendix B MCMaster Software Utilities (p.
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