On 3 Feb 99, at 21:28, jnielsen wrote:

> I found an old ega monitor, plugged it in and it started up but it
> had lost the info of the hard disk drive. So I took out the hard
> drive and could not find any info about the hard drive of what was
> the cylinder size, sectors, etc.

  If you can find a manufacturer's name and model number, several people
here have ways to find the info.


> The cmos is capable of auto detecting  the hard drive but have not even
> heard any post beeps, nothing so far.

  From the age of the system, I wouldn't necessarily assume that the drive
is IDE.  No video or beeps on boot sounds like something I've seen when a
486 motherboard wasn't configured for the right "flavour" of 486 chip, or
when a non-IDE CD-ROM drive was connected to the IDE controller.



David G

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