dear people,

I am using a machine from the year 90’, which works with a processor 80286 ...

Everything so far worked well until the system showed me this message:


Resident portion of MODE loaded

COM2: 1200, e, 7, 2 , p

application error

, :-1:

,not, found not found matrix’

_c_’

Hit any key,


Can you clarify where the problem lies?

I would be very grateful!

 

With the sparse information that you have provided one will have to assume that you are running a machine with proprietary operating system (OS) and embedded firmware.
I doubt that there is anyone here on AAC that can help you. You would be best to contact the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for assistance.

 

I assume the computer is running MS-DOS (Which version ?) I also assume this message occures while the system is booting. If you have not changed autoexec.bat or config.sys then it could be a hardware error. Possibly a dead CMOS battery.

Les.

 

i'd go with the dead battery as well.
device hanging off com 2 may also be faulty (i assume modem)

 

Might be the battery although on systems of that age, you usually see the time of day clock stop running before it loses its setup. That said, the MODE command configures devices, in this case COM2: That operation failed.
I'd agree with tom_s, it looks like the COM2: board is no longer responding or at its' expected address. You can try to edit the MODE command out of autoexec.bat by preceding the command with 'REM(ark)' i.e.
REM MODE COM2:.....
If that suppresses the error, replace the com board.

https://ss64.com/nt/mode.html

Problems with HIMEM.SYS configurations can cause things like this although in this case it looks like the resident part of MODE got loaded OK. Run MEM from the command prompt to see if everything fits in the various memory areas.