As a few of you on this fourm may know, I've been trying to make my 286 run at a faster clock speed this whole week. Well, I did that, and got it from 8 MHZ to 10 MHZ, and it runs stable under that, but I would like to push it to 12 or 16 MHZ because I bought oscillators for that. When I go up to 12 MHZ, I get memory errors. I figure to remove these errors I need to set a wait state. The chipset manual says I can set one wait state for memory and like 4 wait states for I/O. The motherboard has no jumpers for this. My computer's BIOS setup dosen't have many options, and setting a wait state is not one of them. It's an AST 286 BIOS, but through some digging I found it's actually a Award BIOS from 1989 but with AST branding. Software programs report it as an Award BIOS, and the setup menu looks very close to an Award setup screen except for the color scheme. I've tried multiple set up programs, including ones from AST, for their computers from the 286 Bravo (which I have) to their 386 machines, and the setup programs included are the exact same as what is on the computer already. I tried 3 generic programs. One of them acted like it could set a wait state, but no wait state was set. Maybe the board just can't set a wait state, but I'd like to try and find a setup program to set a wait state if possible. If anyone has a setup program for an AST or Award BIOS or a generic setup program that can set a wait state and you are willing to give the file, it would be much appreciated.

Thanks