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Reply 20 of 21, by joebelter@hotmail.co

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Post code says 66 for Phoenix bios...
Is it possible I have to have the cache card installed for this to work?
If so, there's lots of 256k coast modules on the bay, can I just buy one of those since this board supports up to 256k?

Reply 21 of 21, by joebelter@hotmail.co

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I actually got further!! Once I set the switches to 8mb of memory in bank zero I got it booted to the bios screen!
I got it configured to boot to the floppy and actually had it consistently booting to Dos.
I then hooked up an ide drive to the ide port on the motherboard (which some folks say can be flaky) and tried to setup EZ-Drive, but no matter what I put in the bios it wouldn't see the drive.
After that I decided I'd just try using a CF card and 512mb card on an external IDE hard drive controller, but when I rebooted it just gets to the post and then gets stuck after the floppy seek.
I removed all the cards except for VGA and unplugged the floppy in hopes it would prompt a setup error, but no.

SO... now after getting so close, I'm stuck back at not being able to get into the bios setup screen. Something happened with the EZ-Drive that messed things up.
There's NO CMOS clear jumpers anywhere, so I tried reflashing the bios but it boots the same, goes through the memory test, seeks the floppy and just sits there with a flashing cursor.
I unhooked the 4.5v external battery I made for it and waited for a while but it didn't help. There are actually three pins where the external battery goes - I tried shorting various combinations and had no change.
I'd sure apprecieate some help to finish this!
Joe