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Name: AKADEMIKA Date: October 22, 2005 at 07:33:51 Pacific OS: SOMETHING FOR 386 CPU/Ram: 386SX
Comment:
I FOUND ONE OLD COMPUTER WITH 386SX PROCESSOR,AND I TRIED TO BOOT FROM HARD DRIVE . NOTHING HAPPENS! WHEN I TRY TO BOOT FROM FLOPPY EVERYTHING IS FINE .FIRST I THOUGHT "I AM NOT CONFIGUIRED THE BIOS CORRECTLY" (CYL 683,HEAD 16,SECT 38),BECAUSE THE BATTERY WAS DEAD. BUT COMPUTRER ALWAYS SHOWS THE SAME MESSAGE "Hdd Controller failure! press F1 to continue"!I THINK I NEED TO FLASH THE BIOS (DISX-1234-121589) BUT I CANT FIND ANYWHERE BIOS THAT MATCHES! PLEASE HELP!!! ME
Name: T-R-A Date: October 22, 2005 at 12:55:05 Pacific
Reply:
A 386sx likely won't have a BIOS which you can flash. You'll need to replace the CMOS battery, determine the correct parameters of the drive and then input the settings in the BIOS setup. At that point, you should be able to boot from the HDD, assuming it has a bootable partition.
The HDD controller may also have taken a dirt nap; you'll need to replace it if that's the case.
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Response Number 2
Name: name Date: October 23, 2005 at 11:36:31 Pacific
Reply:
In all probabability this is a BIOS BATTERY problem.
REPLACE the battey.
Since I doubt very much that you are typing this here message on a World War II era teletype machine,
PLEASE turn off the caps lock.
Thank you, Thank you very much (in yer best Elvis voice)
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