When I try to install MsDos and restart it, it says No Basic Rom System Halted wut does this mean?

Old systems, dual floppy ones mainly, had a ROM BASIC installed, which meant that if you restarted with nothing to boot off of, it would load the ROM BASIC from ROM at some memory segment and you could program from the system directly in BASIC. Newer systems carried this feature on but the ROM BASIC was removed. If the BIOS can't find a drive to boot from, it tries to load the non-existent ROM BASIC and gives you that. Looks to me like your Master Boot Record is screwed, or something like that. Maybe look at some BIOS settings in case they somehow got modified. If you can boot from a DOS floppy and access your drives with no trouble, (1) breath a sigh of relief, and (2) run "FDISK /MBR" to replace WhateverIsInTheMBRnow with working code. Also, run FDISK and check to make sure a partition is active. It should tell you right away. If you CAN'T access any of the drives, like they're just not there or give you bogus errors, then (in the assumption that you aren't using FAT32 for Win95, and have booted from a DOS 6.22\earlier floppy) start to panic. Run FDISK. Check BIOS parameters more thoroughly. All that fun stuff. Scream. Kick it. But _don't_ call tech support. Hope I might have cleared SOME of that up.... -Chris

This error means either your hardrive has no partions which you can use fdisk to check. Or that your hardrive is bad. Hopefully its the first.

I have experienced this when memory problems seemed to be the cause. See if there is a place in the BIOS to disable parity checking. I have no idea why this seemed to correct NO ROM BIOS--SYSTEM HALTED but it did for me once when I was having a lot of them.