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Before Christmas I wrote:

>I was trying to test a (Zeos 386SX-20) motherboard on my workbench the
>other day, and I couldn't get any response from it.  The only things I
>had connected were a (Hercules clone) video card and monitor, the speaker,
>and the power supply--not even any memory!  I expected to hear a few beeps
>indicating failure of the memory test, but I heard and saw nothing.  Are
>connections required to the "turbo" switch, the "reset" switch, the "keylock"
>switch, and the CMOS battery in order to make the board operational?  If so,
>how should these connectors be jumpered?  (I don't have a case for this
>motherboard yet.)

I would like to thank L. Piacenza, Jim Erickson (Zeos tech support!),
Ray Mendonsa, and Dave Angus for e-mailing me their suggestions.  The
correct answer is that THE BOARD NEEDED SOME RAM.  After I bought and
installed two 1Mx9 SIMMs, the board came up as far as the CMOS setup
screen (i.e., no other motherboard connections were required). After I
plugged in an AT-compatible keyboard and the 8-bit RLL disk controller
from my PC and entered "disable internal IDE drive" on the setup screen,
DOS came up!  I am impressed with the compatibility of the Zeos board.

					Joe Haggerty
					AT&T Bell Laboratories
					Whippany, New Jersey, USA
					jph@wh.att.com OR att!whamr!jph