[plug] SMP Athlon MP 1600+

[Bernd Felsche]

Tim <weirdit at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Regarding the computer - does it POST? Have you reset the CMOS values
>> to the safety defaults? Have you tried having it boot from a floppy
>> drive? What boot order options does it give you?

>it does POST no problem.

>I struggled to get it to boot from CD-ROM. USB boot is out of the
>question. And I've not yet managed to get it to boot off a hard drive
>from another machine (although as I previously said, the hard drive
>was playing up.).
>It does have floppy boot, but i'm fairly lacking on floppy technology
>now days, and was hoping I wouldn't have to drag out an older machine.

>I'll have another try with the hard drive boot later today.

Network boot PXE or Etherboot?

Anyidea yet on the mainboard type and brand? What sort of BIOS?
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