that should pop a menu (or is it alt shift A the flash will tell you.) get back if there is a menu and whats on it. The older Bios intercepted Interupt 14 hdd controller interup and redirect to the card. thanx. bill
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You should be able to see what key to press to enter the BIOS menu while the memory tests are runnung. On my machines (with Asus mobos) it is the Delete key.
Alex There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
Well it seems the old Adaptec SCSI controller's BIOS will not allow booting from a CDROM. The Motherboard BIOS was designed back when 212 meg was a *huge* disk drive.
I've obtained a 'less obsolete' ATX formfactor box [don't know the CPU, but its likely much faster than the P133 in the other box]
Now all I need to do is scrounge some RAM [probably retail] then I should have a working x86 box - this one should boot from CDrom, sidestepping the original difficulty in generating a boot floppy from a .img file on a Mac
is there more coffee... can I have another cup... you wanna cup I can make some more... I have alot... I mean I have this pot here... but its almost gone and its been sitting there for 10 minutes anyway... I should make more... did I ask if you needed coffee??? do you??? need coffee I mean...
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