7 Feb
1999
7 Feb
'99
6:21 a.m.
Hi ,can you assist .we have a old 386 with a conner 80 meg HD .We needed
to clean same and used the zero fill from disk manager on boot up. we
got message NO ROM BASIC >SYSTEM HALTED we cannot find anything on this
error message.or what we did wrong ?????? regards from africa ROY HILL
7 Feb
7 Feb
5:45 a.m.
royston hill wrote:
Hi ,can you assist .we have a old 386 with a conner 80 meg HD .We needed
to clean same and used the zero fill from disk manager on boot up. we
got message NO ROM BASIC >SYSTEM HALTED we cannot find anything on this
error message.or what we did wrong ?????? regards from africa ROY HILL
Sounds like you wiped the OS from the hard disk and are thus unable to
boot form it. You need to boot form a floppy, use FDISK to establish a
partition on the hard disk and then format it.
Good luck,
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7:24 a.m.
At 06:21 PM 2/7/99 +0100, you wrote:
Hi ,can you assist .we have a old 386 with a conner 80
meg HD .We needed
to clean same and used the zero fill from disk manager on boot up. we
got message NO ROM BASIC >SYSTEM HALTED we cannot find anything on this
error message.or what we did wrong ?????? regards from africa ROY HILL
What this means is that you have a clone system that cloned the original
IBM BIOS a bit too well. The original IBM PC had a BASIC intrepreter in
the ROMs and if the boot from disk failed, (or no drives were installed)
the system would drop out into the ROM based BASIC.
Many of the early clone systems copied the IBM BIOS rather exactly, but
without the ROM based version of Microsoft BASIC included. So, when the
disk boot code times out, it looks for the BASIC ROMs, and when it does not
find them displays this message and halts the processor.
Looks like you need to do a ground up reinstall of your OS into the hard
drive.
-jim
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8:47 a.m.
Given the age of this computer I would check to see that the lithium
battery is ok. The computer is not seeing your hard drive as a bootable
device, the most common reason for this (after someone accidently
formatting it) is that the CMOS ram has lost its contents due to battery
failure. There shouls be a floppy labelled "SETUP" that came with the
computer that can be used to determine whether or not the hard disk
parameters are correct or not. If they are not you will have to re-enter
them. Once they are re-entered, try rebooting. If the system comes up
normally then you will need to get a new battery.
--Chuck
At 06:21 PM 2/7/99 +0100, royston hill wrote:
Hi ,can you assist .we have a old 386 with a conner 80
meg HD .We needed
to clean same and used the zero fill from disk manager on boot up. we
got message NO ROM BASIC >SYSTEM HALTED we cannot find anything on this
error message.or what we did wrong ?????? regards from africa ROY HILL
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