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raymond kornele <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:01:30 PDT
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>From: Chuck Hassenplug <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [PCBUILD] Rebuilt 486 Troubles
>Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:02:29 -0700
>
>I am putting together a 486 system for a friend. The computer boots fine,
>and it can access the floppy drive and boot from there, but when I add a
>hdd
>with dos 6.22 and win 3.11, the bios gives me a "no operating system found
>message". I have tried reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling dos and
>windows, but to no avail. What can I do to fix this? Thank you,
>
>Chuck Hassenplug

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Sounds to me like you need to set the CMOS to the proper drive type.
=====Korny=====

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