How to enter old 286 BIOS setup
Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2016 12:13 pm
Ive just sourced an old vintage vintage 286 computer, I have no idea on the motherboard model, i cant find anything.
It needs the battery replaced and the time is wrong.
i keep getting keyboard error press f1, CMOS date and time wrong.
F1 just continues to boot, but pressing DEL does not enter setup, nor does insert.
I can see two rom chips with award bios stickers on them, so i naturally assume its an award BIOS.
Ive been reading that some old computers require you to use a special boot disk from the motherboard manufacturer to enter the setup.
I was wondering if its possible to use debug or not to enter setup?
It has a MFM HDD controller with a floppy controller on the same card.
Would the HDD configuration utility on this card also configure the floppy drives etc, or would this go through the system BIOS?
The HDD appears to be communicating, its an old ST225 (20MB) drive, i get disk boot failure, but im not sure what if anything is on the drive still.
Final question, what version od DOS should i run on this?
It only has 640K of RAM, would dos 6.22 be too demanding on this system?
It needs the battery replaced and the time is wrong.
i keep getting keyboard error press f1, CMOS date and time wrong.
F1 just continues to boot, but pressing DEL does not enter setup, nor does insert.
I can see two rom chips with award bios stickers on them, so i naturally assume its an award BIOS.
Ive been reading that some old computers require you to use a special boot disk from the motherboard manufacturer to enter the setup.
I was wondering if its possible to use debug or not to enter setup?
It has a MFM HDD controller with a floppy controller on the same card.
Would the HDD configuration utility on this card also configure the floppy drives etc, or would this go through the system BIOS?
The HDD appears to be communicating, its an old ST225 (20MB) drive, i get disk boot failure, but im not sure what if anything is on the drive still.
Final question, what version od DOS should i run on this?
It only has 640K of RAM, would dos 6.22 be too demanding on this system?