EISA - was VLB SCSI? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Nov 2001

I did read what he said. Sometimes in the early Compaq 486's (and
also late 486 Olivetti/NCR/AT&T) you get the error. Used to have a
slew of the monsters at work we got cheap to replace dying IBM's.

We replaced them with.. Wait for it.. I'll give you a hint, we were
bought by AT&T..

NCR 3230's.. Ugh. At least at EOL we could re-chip them, crank the
clocks and toss regulators in for employees that wanted one. Nothing
like seeing the message "486DX4 running at OVER 100mhz" and
chuckling.

But you are right, it could be that too. Reset to defaults and reconfig
can't hurt. Just I've seen far more (FAR MORE!) with a weak battery.

Jim

On Friday, November 02, 2001 2:46 AM, Chad Fernandez 
[SMTP:fernande@internet1.net] wrote:
...
  re-read what he said..... he isn't loosing the
configuration, it justs
 wants attention.  I have had this happen before too.  I just change
 things until it stops :-)  I think something gets crossed up when
 changing things around too much, and it asks for F1 to be pressed.  You
 can start over from scratch by pulling the battery..... I have had to do
 that once or twice when I really screwed things up, to the point that it
 hung while the bios was loading :-)

 Chad Fernandez
 Michigan, USA

 Mike Ford wrote:
 >
 > >Hmmm, that reminds me:
 > >
 > >I have an EISA Compaq 486sx at a client site from which I had to remove
 > >an add-on internal modem; ran the diagnostic/configuration program, it
 > >says everything's fine, but when it boots it stops waiting for F1 saying
 > >the configuration's incorrect. Press F1 to continue & everything works,
 > > just a nuisance 'cause it can't restart after a power failure without
 > >someone there to press F1.
 > >Any ideas?
 >
 > Check the cmos battery. 