ibmapc
Veteran Member
I've been reading here that some have upgraded the BIOS in their 5162s and/or 5170s to the AMI BIOS found HERE(linked from Minuszerodegrees.net, Thank you Modem7). I guess there's no turning back now. I decided to try it out and must admit that, so far, I LIKE IT!! So I can't say that the old girl is a screaming hot rod, but, she's far from stock now with the VGA display adapter in place of the MDA, multi I/O adapter with a DOM instead of the 20MB MFM HD, and now the AMI BIOS. I really like the ability to skip the memory test( oh yea, I have 8MB of ram on a Intel AboveBoard Plus 8 ) . I hate the ticking noise during the memory count that becomes greatly accelerated when the memory test is skipped. I remember that some newer BIOS's had an option to turn of the ticking sound. I might have to put a switch on the speaker wire. I also like the built in CMOS configuration utility.
So now I'm putting it through a multitude of tests to see if I can find any compatibility issues. Does anyone here know of any?
So now I'm putting it through a multitude of tests to see if I can find any compatibility issues. Does anyone here know of any?
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