Hello,

On that old of a machine you are also going to have to set the cylinders 
and heads parameters for the hard drive in the cmos setup. It's usually 
printed on the drive itself somewhere.

Later, Ray Parrish

Dean Kukral wrote:
> When your battery went dead, all the settings in the cmos memory ("BIOS") went bad, as you said, including the setting for the boot 
> disk order.  You need to go into the cmos settings, probably by pressing "del" during the hardware boot, and go to the section on 
> the drive boot order and make sure that your main hard drive is on the list, preferably in first place.
>
> Unfortunately, this is no guarantee that all will work well, but on an older machine it is likely that will do the trick.
>
> Dean Kukral
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "SUBSCRIBE PCBUILD Brian Fraser" <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 10:43 AM
> Subject: [PCBUILD] 386 boot up error
>
>
> I have a 386 and the internal battery went flat and it lost all its settings.  After replacing the battery I can now not boot the 
> machine.  I keep on getting the message "Diskette error Press any key".
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
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