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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Phoenix BIOS anyone?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.173433.13587@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <13808@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Jul28.174800.29950@burrhus.harvard.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:34:33 GMT
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- In <1992Jul28.174800.29950@burrhus.harvard.edu> kl@isr.harvard.edu (Kun Lee) writes:
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- >In article <13808@mindlink.bc.ca> Wayde_Police@mindlink.bc.ca (Wayde Police) writes:
- >> .... [Stuff Deleted] ....
- >>freeze.
- >>So I finally called IBM support and they told me that the problem was
- >>my phoenix bios is too old (1991). They said I needed to up rev to
- >>revision dated 05-11-92! Is this right?! Is anyone out there running
- >>OS2 2.0 on phoenix bios roms dated before this year's May!??
- >> Wayde V. Police
- >>
- >I am using Phoenix BIOS dated in sometime in 1990 (October 1990 I believe).
- >I am at work so I cannot get the exact date, but I got my 386DX/20 in 1990.
- >I haven't had any problem with my Phoenix BIOS.
-
- I've also used a Phoenix BIOS dated well before 1992 and had OS/2 run
- correctly. The motherboard is by ALR, which may make some difference.
-
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