2 Oct
2008
2 Oct
'08
8:34 p.m.
On Thursday 02 October 2008 13:39, Doc Shipley wrote:
Brad Parker wrote:
Nice to see my recollection confirmed.
A friend of a friend has an old xenix machine;
Compaq DeskPro 386
running Xenix. He shut if off after running for years and it won't
boot because the cmos battery is dead.
The disk is an ESDI drive attached to a Compaq ESDI/FLPY controller
(copyright 1989) ISA bus card.
He says can't see any way to enter a "setup" mode in the BIOS.
If the system has a diag partition, as a lot of Compaqs did, he'll
need to hit F10 at boot time. The cursor will move from upper left
corner to upper right on the screen, and you've got maybe 2 seconds to
hit F10. Failing that, I might have the diagnostic/setup
floppy image. I'll
look for it this evening.
I think those are often pretty machine-specific, but the last time I needed
one I was able to download it from Compaq's web site. Though that was
admittedly not recently...
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