I don't know but found these suggestions.
Hope they help. Bob
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Try F2. Or one of the following;
Esc
F1
CTRL-ALT-ENTER
CTRL-ESC
CTRL-ALT-S
CLRL-S
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Have you tried the F2 key immediateley after power up, you cannot give it
the three finger salute and try this it must be from a power up.
That works on IBM's and Apricot's which have the Phoenix Bios.
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-----Original Message-----
>From: Greg Purvis <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sep 27, 2006 2:40 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] AMBRA 486 Computer - accessing BIOS
>
>Now I'm trying to figure how to access this Ambra's BIOS. I'm not
>managing to guess the correct keywords in the search engines.
>
>The machine has MS-DOS 6.0 loaded.
>
>During boot-up, I've pressed at various times all of the F Keys, the DEL
>key, and the (period) key, but so far I've managed only to irritate it.
>(Unless those beeps are laughter.)
>
>When the computer boots, a screen appears with "AMBRA" at the top, and
>which shows an animated diagnostic check-list. I haven't figured
>whether I should be leaving the keyboard alone during that phase, or
>activating a special non-DOS hot key. The screen disappears after a few
>moments, after which the screen appeasr to show normal DOS boot-up.
>
>I want to access the BIOS because I'm hoping to swap one of its floppy
>drives for an older CD-R/W drive. If that's even possible to do, then
>I'm assuming the system won't hunt for the new hardware on its own, I'd
>have to manually change the settings.
>
>
>As always, thanks in advance for any and all help.
>
>Greg P.
>
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