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From: ker@cbnewsj.att.com (kenneth.roser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Diagnostics with AMI BIOS
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.010627.24398@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 19 Jun 91 01:06:27 GMT
References: <23619@shlump.lkg.dec.com>
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I thank everyone for the responses that indicate I should be able to run
diagnostics after hitting DEL at boot time, but it just isn't true with
my BIOS.  I can only enter SETUP after hitting DEL.

My motherboard uses a chipset called "TI Tiger" and possibly AMI doesn't
support the diagnostics for this particular motherboard/chipset.

In article <23619@shlump.lkg.dec.com> reisert@mast.enet.dec.com (Jim Reisert) writes:
>
>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.
>
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