Страница 1: ...SOTA Technology Inc 559 Weddell Drive Sunnyvale CA 94089 Tel 408 745 1111 Fax 408 745 1640 I 1 I SOTA 38 6si Installation Guide And User s M anual SOTA Technolo gy Inc...
Страница 2: ...ccelerator Revision dale 1 31 90 SOTA Technology Incorporated 559 Weddell Drive Sunnyvale CA94089 IState OfThe Art Technology I Tel 408 745 1111 FAX 408 745 1640 FAX 408 745 0537 International BBS 408...
Страница 3: ...SOTA386si If necessary the user should consuh the dealer or an experienced radionv technician for additional sugges tions The user may find the following booklet prepared by the Federal Communications...
Страница 4: ...S are registered trademarks 01 International Business Machines Corporation TURBO SIDEKICK is a registered trademark of BORLAND International Zenitt is a trademark of Zenith Business Machines Inc Compa...
Страница 5: ...OF OPERATION 18 MICROPROCESSORS 8088 8086I VS 80386SX 18 19 MF o10RY CACHING SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 21 SOTA 386si Driver 21 SOTA 386si Driller Options 22 cACllIiOFF 22 Table 01 Contents SOTA386si ICAC...
Страница 6: ...the state of the art in PC enhancements Not just another accelerator card the SOTA 386si is the foundation for a complete integrated solution Available soon see APPENDIX E for the SOTA 386si is the Me...
Страница 7: ...T PACKAGE CONTENTS 2 SOTA386si Ribbon cable Installation Guide and User s Manual Warranty registration form Chip extraction tool B0387SX Math Coprocessor optional SOTA utility diskeUe with SOTA 386si...
Страница 8: ...eps in the orderthey are presented The AT T 6300 Olivetti PC IBM PS 2 Model 25 and Model 30 Compaq Deskpro and Amstrad PC all use 8066 microprocessors II you are installing the 386si into one of these...
Страница 9: ...essure on the comers of the cover closest to you and slide it away from the machine COMPAQ PORTABLE Refer to Amstrad for cover removal You will also have to remove the top sheet metal plate covering t...
Страница 10: ...om of this board about half way from the back 01 the computer Chip Extraction 8 Using the Chip extraction tOOl gently pry up both ends 01 the 808818086 Chip Then grasp the 808818086 micropro cessor fi...
Страница 11: ...ip on the motherboard The red stripe on the ribbon cable the red color on the ribbon indicates the Pin 1 position of the ribbon must align with Pin 1 of the 808818086 socket Some corrputers other than...
Страница 12: ...the 386si The 3865i will probably need to be in the first upper slot Red Stripe INSTALL 80387SX ON THE SOTA 386s1 II you do not have the e0387SX option then skip this step Otherwise insert the 80387S...
Страница 13: ...video display board or network board due to excesstve noise gen eration by video boards Avoid putting the vkleo display card or other high frequency noisy adapter between the SOTA 386si and the 8068J8...
Страница 14: ...gle switch which protrudes through the metal edge connector of the SOTA 366si In the up position native mode is selected and in the down position 80386SX mode is used The SOTA 386si does not support n...
Страница 15: ...e 8086 or 80386SX microprocessors read from or write GENERAL OPERATION SOTA386si to memory they do so with 2 bytes instead of one This makes them more efficient than the 8088 Additionally the 80386SX...
Страница 16: ...high speed hardware cache again reaping benefit and operating at full speed Since the cache contains a limited amount of high speed memory when data is cached it must replace previous data which was...
Страница 17: ...e hard disk BIOS can cause problems because of timing sensitive loops which may fail when run at a faster speed For this reason 386si SYS defaults to not caching the hard disk BIOS you are sure that y...
Страница 18: ...will restore the high speed performance This tion Is available on 386sl SYS versions 1 21 and later EXAMPLE DEVICE ISOTA1386sI SYS ICACHEHD IKEY 53 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION 1 J 1 J The above line will I...
Страница 19: ...any time by using the scan code nn in this parameter You rrust use the scan code value which isgenerated by the hardware in order for this to work properly Refer to your computer s manual for the scan...
Страница 20: ...use nnn specifies the nurrt er of KB to use SOFTWARE INSTALLATION SOTA386s1 IDOS n Set the amount of DOS memory to use the parameter nnn specifies the nurrt er of KB to use nnn specifies the amount o...
Страница 21: ...he specified hard disk If no disk is specified then all hard disks are affected If you have the SOFTWARE INSTALLATION SOTA386s1 rerroveable hard disk such as Bemolli Box you should flush the disk cach...
Страница 22: ...cept the next character With the SOTA print spooling program you can send data to a RAM buffer very quickty then return to work while the spooler feeds data 10 the printer for it to print at its maxim...
Страница 23: ...rts so it works rruch faster As a result it speeds up the access of your data Once the RAM disk has been created you can COPY to it COpy from it ERASE files from it or run any other DOS commands with...
Страница 24: ...continue working When you work at your co l Uter it can be annoying to stop send a document to the printer then wait for the printer to finish before you go back to what you were doing Though most pro...
Страница 25: ...is not being recognized or accessible by the program APPENDICES SOTA386si ACTION Make sure the SOTA 386si cache driver gets loaded before the EMS driver in your CONFIG SYS file SYMPTOM System freezes...
Страница 26: ...ps are below the large square chip labeled SOTA and consist of 2 larger chips and 1 Ihinnerchip Carefully remove these chips and reseal them in the sockets If this fails contact SOTA s technical suppo...
Страница 27: ...re 3 1be figwes at left indicate the proper jumper settings for the JP5 jumper block to configure the optional maJ h coprocessor Figure t is the factory default setting and implies that no coprocessor...
Страница 28: ...om the second set of pins or move it on to one pin as shown this way you would nOt lose thcjumpcr incase you nceded itagain APPENDICES SOTA 386si STANDARD CONFIGURATIONS cache slzo The following infor...
Страница 29: ...h Friday between 8 00 AM and 5 00 PM pSn al 408 745 1111 APPENDICES SOTA386si APPENDIX D SOTA BULLETIN BOARD If you own a modem feel frrHI to takelldvantsge of our BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEM BB5 You can re...
Страница 30: ...e APPENDICES SOTA386s1 APPENDIX E SOTA PRODUCTS The following sre additional SOTA products avallsble now and In the fUture SOTA FLOPPY 1 1 0 PLUS The Floppy 1 0 Plus is a floppy controller card which...
Страница 31: ...Executing up to 6 MIPS with a maxirTlJm draw rate of 48 million pixels per second the SOTA 340i delivers power redefining performance for graphk s applications running applications like Microsoft Win...
Страница 32: ...run 386sI REVEC after a memory resident program such as SIDEKICK has been installed APPENDICES APPENDIX G BIOS COMPATIBILITY To ensure compatibility with Zenith computers a BIOS ROM upgrade may be nec...