Problem in bios settings?
Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2002 11:46 am
I recently got a Dell 486DX2-66. When I turn it on, it says 'harddisk failure'. After that it says 'f1 to continue, F2 to bios'. If I press F1 it says 'missing operating system'. After that nothing, no command prompt, nothing...
I was thinking the solution was to boot it from A: and go from there.
But if I go to the bios the setting of the boot sequence is 'harddisk only'. The text beside it says I could change the value to 'diskette first', but it is not possible to change the value... Also the bios thinks it has a 5,25 inch floppydrive, althought it has the smaller one. This is also not changable...
(The problem is not the keyboard, because other settings I can change if I want to.)
Please help me? Am I looking in the right direction for a solution to the problem? And what can I do to solve the problem?
I just no very little about BIOS (but I'm learning every day ;-) ).
I was thinking the solution was to boot it from A: and go from there.
But if I go to the bios the setting of the boot sequence is 'harddisk only'. The text beside it says I could change the value to 'diskette first', but it is not possible to change the value... Also the bios thinks it has a 5,25 inch floppydrive, althought it has the smaller one. This is also not changable...
(The problem is not the keyboard, because other settings I can change if I want to.)
Please help me? Am I looking in the right direction for a solution to the problem? And what can I do to solve the problem?
I just no very little about BIOS (but I'm learning every day ;-) ).