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The board has a similar POST screen like you would see on a real PC. It counts up the base ram to 640k but does not count any expanded / extended RAM which leads me to believe it simply does not recognise the extra 384k (At least not without a firmware / SW update) Anyway, apparently 640k is...

Its the two board AST. Would have liked to put some more RAM on it but it seems that it won't accept more than 1Mb. In fact, it only shows 640k on boot up. Ahh well, no Windows then :)

Sorted! Downloaded 'Serial Switch' control panel from Apple's site and set the mode to compatible. Mac286 software then loaded without crashing but all I got was a spinning hour glass and menu options were disabled. Couldn't find any other software options to change so I thought I'd pull the...

Ok, a little progress. It seems that the Mac286 board will work on all Mac II series machines but when it comes to the IIfx, system must be running in 24bit mode and the serial ports set to compatible, not fast. The serial port mode can apparently be changed in a control panel. Now, all I need...

Hi Folks! Just picked up a nice Mac IIFx with an AST Mac286 board set installed. However, I'm having trouble getting the card to run. Tried V2 & V3 of the AST drivers from the Mac Driver Museum, System 6 & System 7 and with 32Bit addressing switched off. Keep getting bus errors though...

Hi Folks! I have a UK spec Mac 128k with an orignal System 1.x boot disk. However, I'd like to run the recomended System 2.0/Finder 4.1 combo. I have a working version but the keyboard layout is set to US. Any idea how I would go about changing the layout to UK? Resedit? Cheers, Dave