"Dan Ceppa" bravely wrote to "Chris Green" (19 Jan 06  15:02:52)
 --- on the heady topic of "WYSE WY2108-01 SETUP Utility"

 DC> On 18 Jan 06  02:04:32, Chris Green got back to Dan Ceppa
 -> Re: WYSE WY2108-01 SETUP Utility

 > You should be able to do that.   Have you tried the obvious like
 > F8, ESC and DEL?

 CG> Yep, tried all the obvious single key and key combinations that I
 CG> could think of to get into it.  Either I am not hitting the right key,
 CG> the right key sequence, the right combination of keys, or this WYSE
 CG> WY2108-01 won't enter SETUP any way except by running an executable.
 CG> It is an old 80286, and has the oldest of hard drives - an MFM
 CG> interface 20MB Seagate ST225, and only a 5<" Floppy and uses an old
 CG> terminal for a display.  Computers couldn't get too much older than
 CG> this except for XTs and the such.

 DC> There has to be a key/key sequence to enter setup.

I recall some old bios used something like Ctrl-Ins or Alt-Ins. From
your message you have tried those. However you don't seem to have
tried other Alt-  key combinations using the other keypad like Plus,
Minus, *, etc. I know Plus and Minus were used in Toshiba laptops.

One not so obvious way to get into setup is to write a bad byte into
the cmos and then let the system detect the checksum error when it is
rebooted. Typically it then goes to the setup menu but not always.
Just remembered, I have a 5-1/4" setup disk for old 286's, somewhere.
Ah, found! It is labelled AT SETUP -PHOENIX-.

 M*i*k*e

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