Old AMI 486 bios hangs at 'WAIT......' .. any ideas?

[pamf]

Subject says it all .. I'm trying to fix this thing for someone. Upgrading isnt an option.. I can't see anything obviously wrong with it.. but sometimes it gets past 'wait......' and ends up at a blank screen, or the system info screen and stops there.. things like capslock and such still work, so it doesnt seem to be locked up..

 

[JayBone]

Sounds like it's trying to detect drives. I'd try setting the size of the drives by plugging it into the cmos setup, instead of leaving it set to auto-detect.
I think there was another thing in there that you can change, as well, but I forget what exactly it's labelled. I had a board that would do that - it'd sit and say "wait" for about 10 seconds while nothing happened, then contiue to boot. For the life of me, I can't remember what is was. I'm thinking it might have been looking for an expansion IDE controller or a scsi card to initialize. I know there was a way to kill that, but it took so long to boot anyway, that I never bothered with it. :\

 

[GregMal]

Do you have the "stop on all errors" disabled?
Greg