Board:   [fsxNet] Retro Computing
Subject: Re: who 286 here
From:    John Richards (21:3/232)
Date:    Wed Oct 21, 2026 02:56

-=> boraxman wrote to John Richards <=-

 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>

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

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

May have a bad Keyboard controller chip then. Should be a 8042 chip
somewhere on the board.

.... Heisenberg may have slept here.
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