Setup help

[Martinus]

Hy,

How to enter setup on this.....

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Super5 from Ei-En Electronics, probably from 1985 ...

thanks

 

[Terry Yager]

Probably a PC/XT compatible, in which case, no BIOS setup. If a '286, may need a floppy disk-based setup program (a lot of early machines did it that way).

--T

 

[Druid6900]

Seems more like an AT bootup to me.

Try continuously hitting the F2 key while it's booting, if that doesn't achieve anything, try CTRL & ESC while it's booting.

 

[Terry Yager]

Yeah, the time & date thing almost certainly indicates AT or newer <cuffing self upside the gourd for not noticing>. Most XTs (all?) would not fail to boot for that reason alone. Did you try booting from a floppy disk?

--T

 

[Amigaz]

Seems more like an AT bootup to me.

Try continuously hitting the F2 key while it's booting, if that doesn't achieve anything, try CTRL & ESC while it's booting.

CTRL+ALT & ESC

 

[MikeS]

Looks like an invalid config.sys and missing command.com

m

 

[dongfeng]

Boot from a bootable floppy disk with a generic setup program (GSETUP.EXE I think). You can set everything up then

You'll probably find the CMOS battery has gone flat and requires replacing, hence the computer has lost its settings.

 

[Terry Yager]

(GSETUP.EXE I think).

Yes, google it, you'll find a godzillion webpages. It doesn't autodetect, so you'll prolly have to take your best guess at the hdd parameters. I'm betting somewhere in the 20 - 42Mb range for a portable of that vintage.

--T

 

[Druid6900]

Looks like an invalid config.sys and missing command.com

m

Gee Mike, gotta get up pretty early in the afternoon to put one over on you, eh?

 

[MikeS]

Gee Mike, gotta get up pretty early in the afternoon to put one over on you, eh?

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Nah, you can put one over on me pretty well any time, even after midnight (EST or EDT).

But although there probably is a BIOS problem it does look like it's reading the boot disk but just not liking what it finds (or doesn't). Definitely time to boot from floppy and investigate; could still be wrong HD params, but might also (or just) be the startup files.

m

 

[Druid6900]

They probably got blown off somewhere along the line. Possibly cross-linked files in the DOS directory. Chkdsk c: /f from the appropriate diskette might fix it and a re-install definately would.