Disk controllers and weird booting rituals.

Rich Brennan brennan at merk.UUCP
Thu Jan 26 03:50:32 AEST 1989


In article <1466 at igloo.UUCP> jjw at igloo.UUCP (John Welch) writes:
>	We had a similar problem with some 386 motherboards at work - they
>would NOT boot unless ctrl-alt-delete was pressed. It *WAS* a BIOS bug,
>not the fault of the disk controller. I think we had American Megatrends
>bios, but I cannot say just what the rev level was.
[...]
>==========================================================================
>  John Welch                                <backbone>!killer!jjw at igloo


  Bingo, AMI BIOS here. I guess I call Proteus tech support for new chips...
Thanks a LOT; I knew I couldn't be that crazy.


Rrrrich.
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