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From: reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Diagnostics with AMI BIOS
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Date: 18 Jun 91 19:03:08 GMT
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In article <1991Jun18.170421.26077@cbnewsj.att.com>, ker@cbnewsj.att.com (kenneth.roser) writes...
>My 386-33 machine has an AMI bios dated 5/91.  I thought that one of the
>features of an AMI BIOS was built in diagnostics.  How does one invoke
>these diagnostics?   It's not specified in my motherboard documentation.

I have an older AMI BIOS in my Northgate, and during the boot process,
before it access the disks, there is a prompt to hit DEL to get to the
SETUP/DIAGNOSTICS menu.  Yours should have the same.

- Jim

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