26 Mar
2001
26 Mar
'01
4:53 p.m.
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
AWARD also uses the DEL during POST as well, at least
in about 10 of the boxes I
have here. Phoenix uses <F1> at any time during POST, though I seldom see that
one outside of Packard Bell, HP, and other U.S. makers' systems.
Phoenix also used CTRL-ALT-ESC on some of the 286s that they provided
BIOS for.
- don
The Morse board, IIRC, was not an early one requiring
a setup diskette, having
given it some thought. In fact, the Morse board I have/had was quite small in
size and was a later '286 version.
The only '286 I still keep up is an old 25 MHz NEAT chipset-based one with a
Harris processor. I've got some software from a former employer that operates
the NEAT chipset quite well to enable the upper memory blocks, thereby enabling
the load of drivers between the adapter ROMs.
That leaves enough memory after loading a few drivers that one can still do
something in the reamining contiguous lower memory.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: <SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: i286-Mainboard
If the BIOS type can be identified, that will be
a great help in knowing to
how access the configuration utility; AMI is pressing delete during memory
count, award is control+alt+F10, and so forth.
In a message dated 3/26/01 3:07:18 PM Central Standard Time, edick(a)idcomm.com
writes:
<< I hope you've tried the obvious, e.g. <F1> or <DEL> during the
POST
sequence to
enter BIOS setup? The earliest PC/AT's used a setup diskette to do the
setup of
the CMOS-based parameters. That may prove to be a problem.
To start out, I'd leave the "turbo" switch alone. However, there's
usually a
Turbo indicator LED that will tell you when you're in TURBO mode. If
there's no
TURBO button, there's probably a jumper connection available somewhere, and
these connections are normally located in the lower left region of the board
(assuming the power and keyboard connections are at the upper right, for
reference. When you say "not available" do you mean you don't have one,
or
that
it's not present/supported on the motherboard?
I'm curious about one thing ... Why is it that you believe it to be operable
at
12 MHz? Is the CPU marked as such? Can you tell anything about the support
chip set? I vaguely remember something about a Morse '286 around here
someplace. It's possible that there's a manual, but more likely it's a
board
that was hying about. I may not have it anymore, but you never know ...
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mario Premke" <mapr0003(a)stud.uni-sb.de>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 1:22 PM
Subject: i286-Mainboard
Hi, I have a 'Morse Technologies KP 286HF' mainboard with
an AMD-Processor - the board works, but I don't have the slightest
idea about the jumper settings ... I put 4 MB in it, but it only
recognizes 640Kb and I assume, that for clocking it to 12Mhz the
(not available) Turbo-Button should be pressed ?!?
For any hints or links to manuals I would be very glad ...
Cheers,
Mario
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