need help , just got this old 486 comp w/o hdd and I installed hdd from another old comp with win 3.11 works ok but no cd. After mem check gives this mesage " Primary, SCSI # 0-TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3401TA" then a couple lines below it says "BIOS not installed!" After that it goes to C prompt I type win and 3.11 launches ok, but no cd drive

It appears that the old computer had at one time a SCSI drive. Do you have a CD Drive in your present computer? Where is it connected to? Was there another controller card in the computer you took the drive from?

my present comp has it's original cd drive and its conected to a board (SCSI controller??) that's conected to the MB .I only installed the hdd(with win 3.11 in it) I dont remember what was on the other comp. Does that help?

I think it's OK. The bootup sequence is looking for SCSI which is on the other computer. As long as you don't install another CD driver for this motherboard you should be able to put it back in the original computer. Your best bet is to get another hard drive for this computer. If you want to use it in this computer and you want to reuse the other computer you're going to have to save the SCSI settings and drivers.

how can I get the settings and drivers? thanks tech-fred

por favor si me pudieran conseguir los controladores de aspire 3000 se lo agradeseria mucho y windows 3.11 el programa completo

Saving Settings. Typically the first thing I do would burn a CD copy of the Hard Drive. You probably can't do it. Minimal Version Create a boot floppy that accesses the CD. Copy autoexec.bat and config.sys to a bootable floppy. COPY all programs referenced in config.sys examples. HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.EXE, etc. You are especially interested in anything refering to the CD. COPY all programs referenced by autoexec.bat MSCDEX.EXE EDIT config.sys and autoexec.bat so that they only reference the programs on floppy. BOOT the system from the floppy. Check if you can read the CD. If you can you got the minimal things to access the CD in DOS. If not you might have to change parameters and try again. In DOS6.xx and WFW3.11 everything should be in the config.sys and autoexec.bat. Other things to save. Any subdirectory related to CD similar to \CDROM, etc. for other utility software.