20 Mar
1997
20 Mar
'97
5:53 a.m.
At 01:57 PM 3/20/97 -0800, you wrote:
to be
Captain Napalm sez:
proprietary
At an auction this past Saturday, I picked up a
Zenith Z386-20 (okay, it
might, just might, be 10 years old). It looks to be a decent system, and
today is the first day I've been able to play around with it, as I had to
scrape up some 72-pin SIMMS for memory.
Wow. 72 pin? Are you certain? In any
case, ISTR older Zeniths taking memory.
Well, I dunno about the rest of the world, but my geezer '286 Zenith took
standard 30-pin parity memory. I did try non-parity memory... the monitor
(over and over) just kept spitting up "Parity Error..."
I have 3Megs in 'er now, looking to go to 6 (someday)...
1. It
doesn't seem to even look at the keyboard. Do Zeniths use
a proprietary keyboard, or is the POST routine not getting past
the bad CMOS?
Zeniths were, ISTR, slightly touchy about keyboards, but they didn't have proprietary. Odds are something else is hanging it.
I got what I thought was a bad keyboard with my Z... so I put el-cheapo on
it and it works fine... Then when I tore apart my Z keyboard I found a
little switch called "XT - AT".. If you have a switchable keyboard (on my Z
there's a small removeable panel in the upper left corner [i believe...
keyboard home, me work]) double-check it's on AT.
Hope this helps!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
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| until I find some new wisdom to share.