Board:   [fsxNet] Retro Computing
Subject: Re: who 286 here
From:    boraxman (21:1/101)
Date:    Wed Oct 21, 2026 09:55

 JR>  xa> whomvseted has a 80286 based computer? xD :D <3
 JR>
 JR>  bo> I have one I found on the side of the road about 20 years ago.  Alas,
 JR>  bo> doesn't quite work.  I get a "Gate A20 error" on startup.
 JR>
 JR> Have you tried adding the "/MACHINE=1" switch to HIMEM.SYS in your
 JR> "CONFIG.SYS?
 JR>

It doesn't get that far.  The message happens pretty much
as soon as you turn it on.  Before the BIOS

 I suspect it is corrosion on the
motherboard, but I checked the traces with
a multimeter and they seemed OK.

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