How to get into Bios Tulip DC-286

[SunDown79]

Does anyone know how to get into the bios of a Tulip DC-286 ?
Its got a Phoenix A286 1.01 Bios.

Have three of these mainboards and they seem to work ok but I need to setup the diskdrive to load some Diag software.

 

[Chuck(G)]

Here's the generic setup utility from Micro Firmware for older Phoenix 286 BIOSes. The earliest ones required that you run a setup program and contained no built-in setup routines.

 

[Roland Huisman]

Hello SunDown79,

You need tulip diagnose disks. For some reason I can not upload the zip file.
Can you send me an email? Then I can sent you the diagnose files.

Mooi apparaat he uit de fabriek van Den Bosch

Greetings, Roland

 

[SunDown79]

Well I actually have the diag disk (3.33) but it just simply wont boot from the drive so perhaps the drive I am using is bogus.

Ow and I dont have the machine itself, I just have 3 of the same mainboards

En neerlands trots inderdaad hehe

 

[Roland Huisman]

Okay, you have just the mainboards and they won't boot.
Now there does ring a bell... Some Tulip machines in those days didn't use the
cabletwist for the A-floppy. If you do, the machine thinks it's a B-drive.

Give it a test, use a straigth cable to the A-floppy drive.

 

[SunDown79]

Hmm dont have any single connector straight cables so I just tried connecting it to the "B-connector" of a multi drive flatcable but well still no go.
Any other idea's perhaps ?

 

[SunDown79]

Just a thought, does the floppy need to have a specific name perhaps ?

 

[Roland Huisman]

This is my tulip AT compact 3, also an 286 computer.
As you can see there is no twist in the floppycable at all...
The Drives are jumpered to A and B

Maybe you can find some info about this canon drive.
This drive is set as A drive in this computer.





Greetings, Roland