Posted by Tim on 1, 2000 at 2:54 AM:
In Reply to: Psychic Force 2012 posted by tim on 31, 2000 at 3:55 PM:
I've tinkered a bit and here's what I've learned.
It's an LPX motherboard. The video card immediately puts up a spash screen to hide the boot sequence, whether the ROM board is plugged in or not. I can connect a keyboard and hold shift to stop the boot sequence, then type DOS commands. I know it's working because I can type "autoexec" and it'll continue booting. The motherboard uses an Award PCI/PNP 586 BIOS.
When I have more time to tinker, I'm going to take the hard drive out of my MAME cabinet and hook it up just to see if it'll boot off it if I unplug the ROM board.
Tim