Added New HDD

[qbprogrammer]

I have added a new harddisk drive to my ollivetti M380 80386 and it does not load on the startup I know you have to get into the BIOS to configure but on OLIVETTI's Computers you need a BIOS boot disk to start the BIOS. Does anyone have a bios disk? or where I can find one?

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QBPROGRAMMER

[AlaricD]

You could try the usual suspects first:

• DEL
  ESC
  F1
  F2
  F10
  Insert
  Ctrl-Alt-Enter.
  Ctrl-Alt-?
  Ctrl-Esc
  Ctrl-Ins
  Ctrl-Alt-Esc
  Ctrl-Alt-+
  Ctrl-Alt-S
  Ctrl-Alt-Ins
  Ctrl-S
  Ctrl-Shift-Esc
  Shift-Ctrl-Alt-Delkeyonthenumerickeypad

Or you can just power off, mash a bunch of keys and hold them down, then power back on and hope it tells you what to press to enter setup after it tells you there's a keyboard failure.

If you're lucky it will be one of those key combos, if not-- maybe you do need specific setup diskettes.

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Am386DX-40 + Cx387DX-40
32MB, 128KB cache
(2) 540MB HD's
8x CD
2MB Video
SB16 PnP
DR-DOS 7.04
Win3.11 w/ Win32s
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Just because it's unusual doesn't make it a virus!
Ping is NOT an acronym!

[CornerPocket]

I checked around and found you can use:
Shift Ctrl Alt + (Num Pad) del to gain access to bios..

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Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?

[AlaricD]

Originally posted by CornerPocket:
I checked around and found you can use:
Shift Ctrl Alt + (Num Pad) del to gain access to bios..

Yeah, I guess maybe that's a better way to say Shift-Ctrl-Alt-Delkeyonthenumerickeypad
than I came up with.

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Am386DX-40 + Cx387DX-40
32MB, 128KB cache
(2) 540MB HD's
8x CD
2MB Video
SB16 PnP
DR-DOS 7.04
Win3.11 w/ Win32s
--
Just because it's unusual doesn't make it a virus!
Ping is NOT an acronym!