Sitting here paging in old stuff from my brain. I'll bet you have an
ArcNet card, and on the card it has a BIOS bootloader that was designed
to do a BOOTP load of a DOS from a Netware or 3Com server.
Pull the card and it will probably boot normally off the floppy.
CZ
On 6/14/2023 7:16 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
Guys...I just wanted to know if anyone has either an
original user/tech
guide or worked with the actual specific machine. Maybe there is a
password reset util disk image floating around specific to the original PCs
Limited system, or a backdoor password ...that's what I am after...the
original stuff that came with it.
I learned ctrl+alt+ - toggles Turbo/ regular mode, by trial and error.
Bill
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023, 6:36 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> What cards are plugged into the motherboard?
>
> What video do you have connected?
>
> On 3 digit error codes, 4xx was monochrome video problems
>
> Do you get any beeps?
>
> Does it have a dipswitch (SW1)? What are the current settings of it?
> With all cards removed, and SW1 (if it has one) switches 5 and 6 off, do
> you get beeps?
>
>
> Do you have any other 5160s available? (consider swapping BIOS ROM)
>