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- From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
- Subject: Re: Help in CMOS SETUP
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.185115.13312@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
- References: <la4kurINN3t2@aludra.usc.edu> <massoud.76.715291525@chemteca.sdsu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:51:15 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <massoud.76.715291525@chemteca.sdsu.edu> massoud@chemteca.sdsu.edu (Massoud Ajami) writes:
- >In article <la4kurINN3t2@aludra.usc.edu> hho@usc.edu (*** N.T.K.C.D. ***) writes:
- >>
- >>I just bought a 386-40mhz (AMD) motherboard which has an AMI
- >>bios in it. I am upgrading my system from a 286..
- >>
- >>My problem, is after I put everything together..
- >>Upon boot up,
- >>I get
- >>
- >>"No ROM BASIC" :-((
- >>
- >>What did I do wrong??
- >>I have 1 3.5 floppy drive and an Adaptec 1542B controller
- >>with 1 SCSI Seagate hardisk..
- >>Everything is great until that..
- >>
- >>I called my dealer and they said I must alter the Advanced chipsetup
- >>and the advance CMOS setup ..
- >>& I have to send in the whole system, they charge $50 + s/h :-((
- >>
- >>Could someone on the net show me what to set? :-)
- >>
- >Do they still follow that IBM things? Well, compatible is compatible! You
- >did not mention that if you could boot from flopy. Your hard disk is not
- >recognized by BIOS which means no boot from flopy, no boot from hard, then
- >go to BASIC ROM. You just need to update CMOS, advanced CMOS set up is for
- >better performance. Your computer should boot from flopy and hard, if set up
- >is correct.
-
- Isn't the correct CMOS setup for a SCSI hard drive "No drive installed"?
- Doesn't the SCSI controller do the job of identifying the hard drive?
-
-
- --
- Jim H.
- *
- * James L. Henrickson
- * ujlh@sunyit.edu "Some day I might have a real .signature!"
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