From: magus@drktowr.chi.il.us (Louis Giliberto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Help needed: COHERENT 4.0 won't boot
Date: 4 Jan 93 19:04:25 GMT
Organization: DarkTower Software
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Kerst V. Raden (kvr@mcshh.Hanse.DE) wrote:
: Motherboard with AMD 386DX/DXL, 40 MHz, 4MB RAM, Symphony chipset,
: AMI BIOS

Ok....I have the same exact board and BIOS I believe.  Here is what
my setup looks like:  (I'm posting it for general reference as to
a working AMI setup).

Under advanced setup: (I'll just include the strange stuff)
typematic rate programming: disabled
typematic rate delay (msec): 500
typematic rat (Chars/sec): 15
.
.
Hard Disk Type 47 RAM Area: 0:300
.
.
Numeric Processor Test: Disabled (I don't have one)
Weitek Processor: Absent
Floppy Drive Seek at Boot: Enabled
System Boot Up Sequence: A:, C:
Cache Memory: Enabled
Turbo Switch Function: Enablde
.
.
Video ROM Shadow C000,16K: Enabled
Video ROM Shadow C400,16K: Enabled
.
.
(rest are Adaptor ROM Shadow and they are disabled)
.
.
System ROM Shadow F000,64K: Enabled

Under Advanced Chipset:

Hidden Refresh: Disabled
Slow Refresh: Disabled
Single ALE Enable: No
Keyboard Reset Control: Disabled
Master Mode Byte Swap : Disabled
AT Cycle Wait State: Enabled
DRAM Read Wait State: 0 W/S
DRAM Write Wait State: 0 W/S
Cache Write W/S: 0, 32Kx8
Non-Cacheable Bolck-1 Size: Disabled
Non-Cacheable Block-1 Base: 0 KB
Non-Cacheable Block-2 Size: Disabled
Non-Cacheable Block-2 Base: 0 KB
Cacheable RAM Address Range: 64MB
Video BIOS Area Cacheable: Yes

My BIOS is AMI (C) 1990, and the version number goes off the screen
too fast for me to read :)


: GENOA VGA with Tseng ET 4000 chipset and 1 MB RAM

Sorry, I've got an OAK card.

: IBM 8503 monochrome monitor

Even thought it is monochrome, you should set the BIOS to color I believe
since it's VGA and not MDA also the jumper on the motherboard should
be switched to color.

: Multi I/O board (com1, com2, lpt1, fd, hd) with Inboard W83757F chip

I think this is the same exact board I have.  Everything but the kitchen
sink.

: Seagate ST3144A hard disk

The drive shouldn't matter as long as the BIOS is set up right, but
you're having problems before it even fiddles with the drive.

: 3,5" floppy
: Cherry MF2 keyboard

These shouldn't matter.  The keyboard might, but later in the setup.

I'm not sure my BIOS setup is optimal, but it works.  I had Coherent on
one machine, then moved it to another.  Both were 386/40 AMD's, one with
2 megs the second with 8 megs ram.  I used the same BIOS setup for both.
I've run it with both an IDE using the Super I/O card, and also an
MFM using a Western Digital controller card.  Worked on both (right now
it's on a 120meg IDE using the Super I/O as a controller).

I hope that helps.

-Louis

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