15 Nov
1998
15 Nov
'98
10:31 a.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
I used it all the time in the AF, when we had a bad unit we'd mark it FNG,
otherwise known as F***ing No Good.
Ethan, if you have the originators email address I can help him or her more
exactly, as well as send a generic setup program if need be. PS/2 units won't do a
thing without a specific setup disk, and some even back to 8088/8086 such as
Leading Edge machines require a setup disk (of sorts).
Drop it to me direct email and I'll get with the newbie and lend a hand.
Russ
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.