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Can anyone help?
I reformatted my hard drive and got a bit carried away!Any ideas when you get the following message :-
NO ROM BASIC
System Halted
Its an AMD233 and the bios is american megatrends 97I think the Bios is ok because it was working until I started messing around with the hard drives.
the drive is being moved from a pentiumIII 500 compaq but i'm sure I got rid of all the data and partitions on the drive.
Maybe I got rid of a little too much but fat 32 and the lack of uninstall info was getting to me.Could it be because the drive is completely empty...should some kind of dos partition be on there??
Should I be able to boot straight from win 98??
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"NO ROM BASIC" is the error message for either:
Stuffed BIOS chip
Low-level formatted hard drive (have to use a third party proggie now to do this)
Stuffed motherboard.
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Hi,
Usually this message occurs if you have neither hard drive nor floppy installed. Open computer and check out all cables connections and then make sure you select proper types for your HDD and FDD.
As for the ROM BASIC it's not implemented in contamporary BIOSes. The last time I saw it was about 10 yeasr ago in old XT machine.
Good luck, Igor
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Try installing an Operating System (i.e. MS-DOS) onto your Hard Drive. All the above are correct, however the cure is simple.
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the problem was the FDD was knackered!!It kept skipping the WD tutorial and ez-install. The hard drive is working properly now. Thanks for your suggestions and thanks to Igor for the prompt towards the solution
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In 1979 IBM was developing the first 16-bit desktop computer. They wanted to include a programing language with every computer. Digital Research refused to sell theirs because IBM wanted total control and all rights to their program, besides offering peanuts for a program that made Digital Research $50,000,000.
Bill Gates agreed to sell IBM the only product Microsoft had....Basic. He gave IBM all rights and total control of the software with one stipulation. Every IBM (or compatible) had to load his Basic program or the system halted. IBM agreed to incorporate this feature into every desktop sold from then on. The Basic program kernel has been loaded into every IBM compatible ROM ever since.
It's not needed for the system to run, (never was) but thanks to "you know who", it's there and the computer won't boot without it.
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