Newbie's got a dead 386

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_at_infinet.com>
Date: Mon Nov 16 09:47:20 1998

>
> 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.

Good luck,

-ethan

 
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