On 1999-06-12 Heimo Classen said:
>Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 23:30:24 -0300
>hej - doesn't this look precisely like the usual (earlier) AT BIOS
>error message ? (it's an original *AT*, isn't it?):
All of the cards and components, except for the gray-scale VGA monitor
appear to be of original vintage. When found, the machine contained
no video card. I installed an old VGA card, and it worked.
>> "System options not specified - Run setup", "Press F-1 to resume".
>Which means that you wouldn't need a setup *prog/disk* but just to
>input the right details into the BIOS setup (in CMOS, not ROM):
>these needed the specification of the (eventual) hard disk, and of
>the memory volume.
There appears to be no on-board ROM providing a setup program with
which one could input the BIOS setup options for CMOS. If there is
no boot disk in the A drive, pressing F-1 will call the BASIC ROM,
not a setup ROM. For this reason I believe I need a setup disk.
Someone from this list sent me a message via private email to let me
know where I might be able to download a setup disk. I will check out
the info as soon as possible.
>You get the latter from the POST counting at power-on:
>> ... 640K + 1 meg extended.
The above is not an exact *quote* of a message. What I actually
saw on screen is "______ K, OK". I forgot the exact number of
"K", but it was more than 1100 and less than 1200.
>- but you have to deduce 384 K from the "1 meg extended", and type
>in *that* number at the "extended mem" entry in the setup screen.
It was very helpful for you to have mentioned this. I am already
aware of such things as "extended" and "expanded" memory, but would
need to condult a book to brush up on my knowledge of this stuff in
order to input all the correct details, and to figure out what type
of memory is which. Sometimes I forget and become confused on the
matter. I hope none of the chips in my brain are having glitches!
>For the HD specifics, you have to search for some clue from its
>label, and then try to find the details for this sort/made.
I think I'll have to remove the hard drive in order to detemine
the make/model. I have a book listing the number of
cylinders/tracks/sectors for almost all old hard drives.
Thanks for your response.
Sam Heywood.
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