falter
Veteran Member
Hi there,
So I have this Intel-branded 386 PC. I think it was a reference design - the labels suggest it was part of a custom run for some application or other. I believe it's a 386SX and the bios is Phoenix 1.3d. It didn't come with RAM, so I borrowed 8 256kb sticks from one of my expanded RAM boards.
Naturally the clock is dead. When the machine comes up, I have to switch on the keyboard lock (it requests it), before I can go into BIOS and change settings.
I've put everything in correctly to the best of my knowledge. The drive is an 80MB maxtor. However it still comes up with a configuration error message after I 'save' (obviously with no battery it will lose all settings on power down, but it does hold them while powered up). It is showing 512KB base and 1280Kb extended memory. It did actually complain about the memory once, but otherwise the message usually just says configuration error.
The machine will boot off floppy. I can see and read and use any of the contents of the hard drive. But it will not boot from HDD. The HDD does seem to have DOS and system files installed. The machine seems to have been used in a design environment - there's a lot of cad software and Windows 3.0 installed.
If anyone has any thoughts on how I can get it to boot to C: that would be awesome. It's been three decades since I was doing this stuff daily and i've forgotten a lot.
So I have this Intel-branded 386 PC. I think it was a reference design - the labels suggest it was part of a custom run for some application or other. I believe it's a 386SX and the bios is Phoenix 1.3d. It didn't come with RAM, so I borrowed 8 256kb sticks from one of my expanded RAM boards.
Naturally the clock is dead. When the machine comes up, I have to switch on the keyboard lock (it requests it), before I can go into BIOS and change settings.
I've put everything in correctly to the best of my knowledge. The drive is an 80MB maxtor. However it still comes up with a configuration error message after I 'save' (obviously with no battery it will lose all settings on power down, but it does hold them while powered up). It is showing 512KB base and 1280Kb extended memory. It did actually complain about the memory once, but otherwise the message usually just says configuration error.
The machine will boot off floppy. I can see and read and use any of the contents of the hard drive. But it will not boot from HDD. The HDD does seem to have DOS and system files installed. The machine seems to have been used in a design environment - there's a lot of cad software and Windows 3.0 installed.
If anyone has any thoughts on how I can get it to boot to C: that would be awesome. It's been three decades since I was doing this stuff daily and i've forgotten a lot.
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