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no boot disc for old 486. HELP!
Name: Keith Dickson Date: April 3, 1999 at 10:58:11 Pacific
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I recently inherited an older NEC brand 486, which came to me with the hard-drive completely erased, and no boot disc. On the bootup, I get two beeps and it doesn't go any further. The monitor only shows wavy lines. How can I save this computer? Please help!
Name: Larry Date: April 3, 1999 at 11:04:22 Pacific
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Some NEC 486's have their BIOS accessed via a setup disk, sounds like your BIOS battery is dead. You will need a setup disk to reprogram the BIOS before accessing the HD. I do not know of any source unless someone reading this has a setup disk they can send you.
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Response Number 2
Name: Keith Dickson Date: April 3, 1999 at 15:01:51 Pacific
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OK, got the machine booted, it was simply loose wires. But you won't believe what I found! Windows 3.0! This system has a Mitsumi CD-ROM, I installed the correct drivers, but I can't get the system to recognize the D-drive, so I can upgrade the OS. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
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Response Number 3
Name: Todd Date: April 6, 1999 at 10:31:49 Pacific
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I could e-mail you a generic driver that you could load into your config.sys that might help. Contact me if interested.
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Response Number 4
Name: E . H. Onnela Date: May 31, 1999 at 10:45:16 Pacific
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Need setup utilities for a acer v486s laptop 50mhz
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Response Number 5
Name: Carol S. Marks Date: December 10, 1999 at 09:13:54 Pacific
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Hey I have an old PS1 IBM computer that I would like to give to my granddaughter to play with. It would help her learn the keyboard and maybe play some games, but I don't know anything about it. Is there anyone out there that would know? It only has a slot for a floppy disc. I'm sure I would need a boot disc and/or processing disc and/or game discs. Any information would be helpful.
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Response Number 6
Name: jack.v. Date: July 10, 2000 at 11:42:05 Pacific
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where can i down load a boot disc for my 425
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Response Number 7
Name: Katie Date: July 31, 2000 at 14:24:37 Pacific
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I need a boot disk for a Dell precision 433 with a cd-rom. Can anyone help? Thanks, katie
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Response Number 8
Name: Osburn Date: August 9, 2000 at 16:31:48 Pacific
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need a bootdisk/setup disk for a 486 NIS need to take everything out of this system and reboot
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Response Number 9
Name: Porter Date: November 10, 2000 at 08:03:10 Pacific
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I have an old 486 that used to work. Now it says hd Failure and to push F1 to continue. I do that and it says insert boot-up disk in drive A. I don't have a boot-up disk. Where can I get one or download one? Thanks for your help.
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Response Number 10
Name: Merry Date: November 26, 2000 at 22:17:59 Pacific
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I bought a acer acros model T66DG at a yard sale they said it was fine. Sure.!! when it boots up I get all errors it does go through memory and such. When I hit F1 for help I get password vio. haulting system. Can anyone help me. I am trying to set this up for four little neighbor boys from Santa.
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Response Number 11
Name: amit parikh Date: December 19, 2000 at 10:04:02 Pacific
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my pc is not booting from hard disc i have loaded win98 on it. but it's not booting it is asking type command interpreter. then i format my hard disc & copied only msdos 6.22 but still it's not booitng , it gives starting ms dos , & stucks. pl. help me
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Response Number 12
Name: n8 mojo Date: January 17, 2001 at 22:29:56 Pacific
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i have an old nec 486 that doesn't boot... it starts, but gives "keyboard" error, even though I have a keyboard plugged in. tried several different keyboards. this thing is old though, and is ps/2 ... does it require a 'special' ps/2 keyboard?
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