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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Shadow Ram problems with various BIOS mfgrs.
Keywords: Windows 80386 BIOS AWARD PHOENIX AMI OS/2 DOS UNIX/XENIX
Message-ID: <4373@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 89 16:37:40 GMT
References: <9140@attctc.Dallas.TX.US] <4372@cps3xx.UUCP]
Reply-To: su@frith.UUCP (William Su )
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
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In article <4372@cps3xx.UUCP] su@frith.UUCP (William Su ) writes:
]In article <9140@attctc.Dallas.TX.US] jls@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Jerome Schneider) writes:
]]] Okay, here goes the age old question of compatibility. Windows 386 does
]]] not work with Award BIOS. Apparently it works with Phoenix. But, I've
]]] read that Phoenix BIOS has shoddy code for BIOS shadowing and that the
]]                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
]]] AMI has the same problem.   [ .... stuff deleted....]
]] 
]]] So, lets [sic] make a survey: Please send Email to me specifying which
]]] 80286 or 80386 bios people use (Phoenix, AMI, AWARD, Quadtel, etc)
]
]I don't know where or how this thread started, but I have a related
]problem.  I have a brand new HiTech 386.  The relocate program they
]included is on a DOS 3.1 self-bootable disk.  When I try to relocate
]EGA BIOS after booting with that disk, things work great.  However,
]I also bought DOS 4.01 from a separate vendor, and when I boot from
]4.01, relocate claims that I do not have an EGA board and timing
]tests have convinced me that the ROM has not been copied.  Can anyone
]give me any help with what to do about this?

I should have noted that my computer has (I believe) Award BIOS, so
apparently the problem is not limited to Phoenix.


Bill Su
su@frith.egr.msu.edu
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