devjoy
03-19-1999, 07:17 AM
Please don't laugh. This is a serious request for help. My husband is an amature radio operator that has a WYSE 286 integrated into his ham station for certain ham programs. The battery died on the motherboard and it has lost it's BIOS information.. When the machine is turned on, it comes alive with the BIOS version Phoenix 1.64 and the message "Boot error insert boot disk". It boots nicely with a DOS 5.0 boot disk (5.25 disk), but will not change drives to the C drive. We have replaced the battery, but I am unable to access the BIOS setup by any of the usual keystrokes. I believe that the BIOS setup on this old machine was a software program. If I could find the software or the secret access for reprograming the BIOS, it would make my husband very happy. We have later machines, 3 to be exact, up to a m2 233 mx, but he likes this old machine. The frequency that it runs at does not interfer with his ham radio. If anyone could direct me to the solution for this machine, I would be greatly appreciatve. I would gladly pull the old BIOS chip and replace it if that is what it takes, but would need one that would be compatable with it. Thanks for any help you can give me.