I think your computer has this HDD autodetection capability, in which you
don't have to manually enter HDD values. If you still have the manual
(comes with you computer), try looking for sections that illustrates
installing/changing Harddrives. My case, I was using a clone at that time.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 4:44 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SURVPC] Crashing 286s
At 09:44 PM 8/27/99 +0800, you wrote:
> I was able to install the 250MB drive settings on a 286 bios (no
>autodetection and no drive info) by copying the CMOS Drive settings on my
>486 machine (I did install the 250 MB on the 486 just to have it
>autodetected and then copy the info). I was able to run DOS after a couple
>or more resets.
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>How does that work? I'm faced with a 386 that has no user definable
>sections, nor the correct entry for the drive (which came with the
>maching) in the cmos and I'm unable to figure what I can do with it.
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