On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Tom Massey generated:
the key sequence to get into CMOS setup on an Osborne 486
DX4-100 with Phoenix 80486 ROM BIOS PLUS Version 0.10 OLPM30-02?
AFAIK the key sequence for Phoenix BIOSs is Ctrl-Alt-Esc.. you have to
guess when to press this, because it doesn't prompt you to
Hi,
This is a bit of a long shot, and kind of OT, but I'm wondering if
anybody knows the key sequence to get into CMOS setup on an Osborne 486
DX4-100 with Phoenix 80486 ROM BIOS PLUS Version 0.10 OLPM30-02? I'm
trying to get the machine to recognise a CD-ROM drive so I can install
Linux. None
Osborne!
My first computer was an Osborne... 386 with a 100Mb SCSI hard
drive. Never had SCSI drives again unfortunately. At the time,
everyone hated me because I could install Ultima VII, Windows 3.1,
and at one point, this strange new thing I spent night after night
downloading... Linux!
Tom Massey wrote:
Hi,
This is a bit of a long shot, and kind of OT, but I'm wondering if
anybody knows the key sequence to get into CMOS setup on an Osborne 486
DX4-100 with Phoenix 80486 ROM BIOS PLUS Version 0.10 OLPM30-02? I'm
trying to get the machine to recognise a CD-ROM drive so I
hi tom
from memory, i think it's ctrl-alt-esc. hold down ctrl-alt and keep
hitting esc while power up - after memory count of course. however you
could always hold down the space bar while powering up and hope to get a
key stick error and then it will throw up the hit blahblah to go into
setup.
