Atari PC5 AMI-386 BIOS Plus User Manual
This is the documentation supplied with the Atari PC5: American Megatrends' AMI-386 BIOS PLUS User Manual and AMI's system board documentation, stamped by Atari Computer GmbH, Braunschweig. The scan has 132 pages with a text layer; the schematic pages are low resolution but legible.
Contents
[edit | edit source]In PDF page order:
- AMI-386 BIOS user manual, section 1: installing the BIOS, the CMOS set-up, clock speed and wait-state selection from the keyboard, and the errors reported by the BIOS, including the fatal-error beep counts (1 DRAM refresh, 2 parity circuit, 3 base 64 KB RAM, 4 system timer, 5 processor, 6 keyboard controller gate A20, 7 virtual-mode exception, 8 display memory, 9 ROM BIOS checksum) and messages such as "CMOS battery state low"
- Section 2: AMI's built-in diagnostics for hard disk, floppy, keyboard and video
- AMI-386 system board manual: installation, the jumper and switch list (J1 turbo LED, J2 hard reset, J4 EPROM type, J19 speaker, J20 keyboard lock, J21 four-pin battery connector for the clock and CMOS, J22 keyboard), and a system overview: 80386 at 16 MHz, optional 80387, 64 KB cache, 8.5 × 13 inch board, four 16-bit slots, one 8-bit slot and one 32-bit memory slot
- AMI schematics: the 32-MEM 32-bit memory card (Rev A, 26 August 1987) and the 386PC system board (Rev 4A, 28 July 1987, 23 sheets), with the 80386 at U1
What this document does not contain
[edit | edit source]No Atari parts list and no power supply schematic.
Pages that cite this document
[edit | edit source]- Atari PC5: cites Section 3.1, Section 1.3, Section 10, Sheet 1