help - old Pentium won't boot

[b3k3d]

help

someone gave me an old computer that is messed up.
OS has been deleted and I cant get it to take any

Pentium 200 mhz
cache ram 512kb
memory 64mb
bios ver. 4a3nt0x0.86a.0062.p06

with
floppy
cd rom
2 mb hard drive


what would be the best way to fix it

 

[vegasgmc]

What brand is it? Have you tried formatting the hard drive? What OS are you using?

 

[iss]

2mb hard drive??????

do you mean 2GB?

 

[RealBlackStuff]

Welcome to TechSpot

That PC would be at it's happiest with Windows 98SE installed.
If you have any DOS boot-floppy lying about, start the PC from that Floppy, then at the A:> prompt type in:
format c: /s /u and press enter.
Then insert the W98 CD and run SETUP.EXE from there.

Just in case, you can get any type boot-floppy from www.bootdisk.com

 

[Phantasm66]

Don't try and run Windows 2000 or XP on that machine, it will not run well or at all. realblackstuff is right with the Guinness... I mean the Windows 98SE

 

[b3k3d]

thanks every one

the front of the couputer say Auro

the mobo is intel an430tx

i can go in to bios but when it boot it say no OS found insert os setup disk

then with win98 boot disk say remove disks or other media

win95 boot disk says disk I/O error

 

[RealBlackStuff]

Set your BIOS to start from floppy first.
Insert that bootable (win98)floppy and start the PC up (select: with CD-Rom support).

You may have to do an FDISK first. Program is on that boot-floppy. Delete whatever partitions are on the HD (if any). Then create partition, using the whole hard-disk. Set that partition "Active". Quit FDISK.
Reboot with the floppy still in, then format as above.

Then after the formatting, insert the CD as described above.

 

[Nodsu]

Check the boot order of devices in BIOS. Set it to boot CDROM first and use the Windows 98 bootable CD.

The problems with floppies suggest that the floppy drive is bad so you may have better luck booting from a CD.