nghiem@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Nghiem) (08/16/89)
In article <505@darth.PGH.PA.US> liber@darth.PGH.PA.US (Eric Liber) writes: >BIOS : Phoneix 386 V3.03 ?? (i am not sure about the .03) > >The machine ran right out of the box. Except for Windows 386. I discovered >that the AWARD bios that it was shipped with did not disable interrupts >correctly when reading from the Floppy drives. Thus the machine would hang >if you tried to log a floppy from the windows command window. I called >gateway on this and one of their techs said yes that was a problem and I >probably needed a phoneix bios .. which normally was $75 additional. BUT Okay, here goes the age old question of compatibility. Windows 386 does not work with Award BIOS. Apparently it works with Phoenix. But, I've read that Phoenix BIOS has shoddy code for BIOS shadowing and that the AMI has the same problem. Also, apparently the Award BIOS is more network compatible than the other two. So, lets make a survey: Please send Email to me specifying which 80286 or 80386 bios people use (Phoenix, AMI, AWARD, Quadtel, etc) and which operating systems you have been able to use with your bios (DOS, OS/2, Unix, Xenix, Windows/386, Novell, IBM PC Network, 3com, NFS, etc.) I will summarize and post to the net. It looks like that there may not be a single BIOS that supports EVERYTHING, but we should get an idea of what BIOS we can use for what application. nghiem@walt.cc.utexas.edu !cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!walt!nghiem P.S. Please don't forget to include version number