no rom basic

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Sun Feb 7 13:47:42 1999

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
>
Received on Sun Feb 07 1999 - 13:47:42 GMT