Olivetti m300-10 & bios

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Hi,

I have an old 386 pc, Olivetti m300-10. Could anyone tell or give an
educated guess, how to enter its bios? I have tried esc, del, f8, alt+ctrl+
(several keys). What key, or combination of keys could it be?
 
Hi,

I have an old 386 pc, Olivetti m300-10. Could anyone tell or give an
educated guess, how to enter its bios? I have tried esc, del, f8, alt+ctrl+
(several keys). What key, or combination of keys could it be?
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A wild guess based upon largely-futile Google searches:

"Pulsar sin soltar SHIFT + CTRL + ALT + DEL (en este orden)"
which probably means "press and hold shift ctrl alt del in that order",
again, thanks to Google.
 
John McGaw said:
A wild guess based upon largely-futile Google searches:

"Pulsar sin soltar SHIFT + CTRL + ALT + DEL (en este orden)"
which probably means "press and hold shift ctrl alt del in that order",
again, thanks to Google.
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Hi,

Thank you for quick replies, Grinder and John McGaw. I´ve already tried F1,
F2, F2 etc. I am also familiar with that Google search ("Pulsar sin soltar
SHIFT + CTRL + ALT + DEL (en este orden)" ) but I didnt know that it
propably means ...in that order. I´ll give it a try. If anyone else has any
good suggestions, please, I would really like to know.
 
T.K said:
Hi,

I have an old 386 pc, Olivetti m300-10. Could anyone tell or give an
educated guess, how to enter its bios? I have tried esc, del, f8, alt+ctrl+
(several keys). What key, or combination of keys could it be?
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I don't know about your computer, but a long time ago access to the
bios was done via a floppy disk. Could your computer be so old that it
too needs a boot disk to access the bios??
 
philo said:
I am pretty sure you are right.

I've worked on a few antique machines (not Olevetti) that required such
a disk.

It's possible the machine may enter the bios if a hardware change is
made...such as pulling a card or changing the amount of ram

Just a guess though


One other bios entry key combination I did not see mentioned was


control-alt-escape


I had a machine one that used that combination
and even if booted to the OS would enter the bios if that combination of
keys was hit !
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Hi again, and thank you for all the suggestions, especially philo. Making a
hardware change worked, I removed two RAM sticks, and it entered to bios. I
still need to figure out how to navigate in bios.
I think the size of the hd is entered incorrectly and thats why I cant fdisk
and format the hd. Machine has a Conner cp3044 hd, and a spec sheet, I have
found at www.computerhope.com/hdconner.htm says it has 40 MB´s. Fdisk shows
41 MB´s and also displays a message "total disk space is 116 Mbytes",
strange?
 
philo said:
Does fdisk allow you to delete all
then start over?

If not...

Maybe you can put the drive in another machine of approx the same vintage
and fdisk and format it there
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Hi, I was able to delete primary dos partition, but when I tried to make
new, it just hung, so I did ctrl+alt+del. Yes, I guess it would be best to
put the drive in another machine, and install the OS. I could then continue
with those bios settings.
 
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