It seems to me that my old 8088 didn't come with a HD, you had to boot it
with a floppy. They did later come out with a HD on a card, but that was
not standard. It could be it is looking for the information on A: drive
when booting and not finding a disk giving you a error code.

Ed

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Ashok Bhiman wrote:

> Hi,
> I have an old 8088 which I have taken out after a long time. On booting I
> get the display and the RAM test but get a short beep and error code 1701
> and the system halts.
> I am unable to figure out what is wrong.
> Please help.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ashok Bhiman
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