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From: cchase@cs.cornell.edu (Craig Chase)
Subject: Re: Problem with OPTi?
Message-ID: <1992Sep7.132432.14564@cs.cornell.edu>
Keywords: OPTi
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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 13:24:32 GMT
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In article <terry.715846751@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu>, terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu (Terry Lee) writes:
|> 
|> 	Has anyone been able to get 0.1 to run on any 486 machine based on
|> an OPTi chipset?  If so, are you using the 486SXWB or 486WB motherboard?


I have 386BSD up and running (quite nicely, for the moment) with an
   OPTi 486WB chipset

486DX/33 with 16Meg of RAM.   Also with the June 91 AMI BIOS.

Perhaps you're having another problem?  Have you tried reseting the CMOS
configuration to the factory defaults?  You should not have to "dumb-down"
your configuration.


|> I think I am experiencing bug BOOT009 in Nate Williams's bug list version 0.2,
|> where all of the boot floppies lock up the system after displaying the initial
|> copyright message (before listing any devices found).  I have an OPTi 486SXWB
|> motherboard (486DX-33, 06/06/91 AMI BIOS).  Please, I really need help with
|> this!  Also, if no one has found a fix, new buyers should be warned away from
|> this motherboard (or chipset)!  Thanks.
|> 
|> ----------
|> Terry Lee
|> terry@uivlsi.csl.uiuc.edu

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