16 Nov
1998
16 Nov
'98
1:47 a.m.
Hello all, FNG here.
Where did you pick this term up? I know *exactly* what it means, but I've
never seen anybody use it who hasn't been to Antarctica. I'm curious to
learn other contexts this moniker appears in.
It's got a bad floppy drive, which I have, BUT,
it sat around unplugged
until the battery went down and the BIOS settings are GONE. I have tried
every keyboard combination I can think of at bootup and I can't access the
BIOS setup. I am suspicious that this model needs a special setup disk to
write to the BIOS directly.
Some do. Old Compaq 386-sx units come to mind. Also... Phoenix BIOS
does not always announce the keyboard combo to trigger setup. ISTR
CNTL-ALT-ESC and CNTL-ALT-F10 are two popular non-DEL bits. You can't
do those at power-up. Boot from a floppy and start whacking keys at the
DOS prompt.
Good luck,
-ethan