At 11/6/98 10:37 PM , Manas Mittal wrote:
> One of my friend owns a 80486.Well , he can't use it.As soon as he
>swithces it on , he gets the message "NO ROM BASIC , SYSTEM HALTED".
> Can anybody help me undestand the problem.
The basic problem is that the computer for some reason does not see either
a floppy drive or a hard drive to boot from.
A common problem that I have seen is the hard drive cable is not connected
properly (and interferes with the I/O for the floppy controller).
Other possibilities:
1- BIOS setup with no drives identified in BIOS,
2- Bad Floppy controller or hard drive controller
Doug Simmons
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