Hello--
I recent acquired an orange386 board for my q950. It has an AM386SX, superchips 387, one ISA slot and support up to 16mb of ram, supposedly.
I currently only have 1mb sticks to put in it though I am having some weirdness with it. If I populate banks 1 & 2 with known 1mb sticks, it shows only 1mb during its ram count. However, if I populate all four banks with 1mb sticks, it shows 3mb of ram. Odd, so I decided to try populating only banks 3 & 4 with ram, and it shows 1mb, but says "ram count does not match cmos -- run SETUP".
I've read in old articles and ancient blog posts saying that you had to tell the orange card how much ram you have / want to use, but I have tried all the methods and cannot find how to get into the bios / setup. I have tried getting it to come up with a keyboard error, but that doesn't work. All it does is beep until it clears the invalid inputs.
I did find the data sheet for the controller chip--82C836(need to double check, can't remember if this is correct part number off the top of my head). Under the memory management section, I did find a note that said something along the lines of "if the processor is ran in protection mode, it will use 1mb of memory". Obviously, this isn't the exact verbage, and a lot of the terms thrown around in the document go over my head. However, it does make me think if that's the issue or not...
If anyone has any insight in how to adjust the memory settings, or get into the bios / run setup, I would greatly appreciate it. This is the thread I started on 68kmla, but it has been unfruitful...
I recent acquired an orange386 board for my q950. It has an AM386SX, superchips 387, one ISA slot and support up to 16mb of ram, supposedly.
I currently only have 1mb sticks to put in it though I am having some weirdness with it. If I populate banks 1 & 2 with known 1mb sticks, it shows only 1mb during its ram count. However, if I populate all four banks with 1mb sticks, it shows 3mb of ram. Odd, so I decided to try populating only banks 3 & 4 with ram, and it shows 1mb, but says "ram count does not match cmos -- run SETUP".
I've read in old articles and ancient blog posts saying that you had to tell the orange card how much ram you have / want to use, but I have tried all the methods and cannot find how to get into the bios / setup. I have tried getting it to come up with a keyboard error, but that doesn't work. All it does is beep until it clears the invalid inputs.
I did find the data sheet for the controller chip--82C836(need to double check, can't remember if this is correct part number off the top of my head). Under the memory management section, I did find a note that said something along the lines of "if the processor is ran in protection mode, it will use 1mb of memory". Obviously, this isn't the exact verbage, and a lot of the terms thrown around in the document go over my head. However, it does make me think if that's the issue or not...
If anyone has any insight in how to adjust the memory settings, or get into the bios / run setup, I would greatly appreciate it. This is the thread I started on 68kmla, but it has been unfruitful...
