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- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: 286 XT (yes it exists) BIOS upgrade question
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.194312.24527@panix.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 19:43:12 GMT
- References: <BtpF7s.LHz@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
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- In article <BtpF7s.LHz@acsu.buffalo.edu> dudek@acsu.buffalo.edu (David T. Dudek) writes:
- >I have a Wavemate 286 XT Bullet motherboard and would like to upgrade the BIOS
- >chip. Should I purchase BIOS for an XT, or BIOS for a 286? Will either
- >work?
-
- Neither. The Wavemate and Bullet boards had special hardware design
- (e.g. support for EMS and disk cache on the motherboard) which
- requires custom code. I doubt you'll find =any= generic BIOS
- which supports this board. But an XT BIOS would be the type to try.
-
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