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From: chuck@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Chuck Rissmeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Can't configure Phoenix 286 bios for coprocessor
Message-ID: <1606@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 9 Oct 89 14:45:53 GMT
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Reply-To: chuck@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Chuck Rissmeyer)
Organization: NCR Comten, Inc.
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Keywords:bios phoenix ibm

REPOST!!

>I recently purchased a Samsung IBM AT compat. with a PHOENIX 286 BIOS version
>1.01 00.  I just installed a math coprocessor, but the setup routine, in ROM,
 ^^^^^^^
 3.1 is what the version really is.

>won't allow me to change the status of the coproccesor's existance.  I can
>change it using SETUP.COM, but the ROM setup in the PHOENIX ROM still
>won't show that there is a coprocessor.  Also,  I have docs, but not for
>the BIOS; the only way I know of to enter the ROM setup routine is by hitting
>any key during boot, which causes a keyboard error and produces the Enter
>Setup prompt.  There must be different way to do that.
>
>Does anyone have this version of the Phoenix BIOS?  If so, would you
>please help me figure this out?
>
Thanks,

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