IBM 286 Help Request

From: Sam Negri <snegri_at_azstarnet.com>
Date: Sat May 15 17:12:44 1999

A friend gave me his old IBM 286 which I'd like to revive for my
wife's use. When I power on, a red light indicates the machine is

looking at the 5.25 floppy drive, then I hear two beeps, and
nothing at all appears on the screen. I'm thinking that maybe the

BIOS somehow got trashed but I don't have a clue what to do about

it. I don't think there's anything wrong with the monitor. I
think the computer just doesn't seem to know it has a hard drive
and monitor connected. Any advice would be sincerely appreciated.

I tried removing and reseating all the cards because that's
sometimes solved problems when I had my own 286, but it didn't do

any good with this machine.

Thanks in advance.
Sam

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Sam Negri
P.O. Box 85132
Tucson, Arizona 85754-5132
For a taste of Arizona, visit my home page:
http://www.azstarnet.com/~snegri/
Received on Sat May 15 1999 - 17:12:44 BST

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