DTK 386 PC ROM-BIOS 1989 American Megatrends HELP!

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jodyscott

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Dear Sir or Madam,

I have recently taken my DTK manufactured 386 computer out of storage. Upon boot-up, the system had asked me to enter my CMOS settings, some of which I was unsure (Hard Disk Type).
Anyhow, upon exiting CMOS setup, the system begins the loading process of MS-DOS, but then hangs. At this point, there is nothing else I can do to get MS-DOS running on my pc.

I was hoping you could help me get this machine up and running again, as I'm stuck.

My ROM-BIOS is American Megatrends, but perhaps the motherboard is another manufacturer (as I may have identified on the following website for AMI: http://www.ami.com/support/bios.cfm#two

My motherboard key at the bottom reads:
ESIS-1169-040990-K#

Please help
 
That is over 20 years old. Hard telling whats wrong with it. You won't be able to replace the motherboard, its too old.
 
Hi John,

It does appear that the motherboard is intact. The problem is that I'm not sure how to identify my Hard Disk Type. I'm able to chose from the options "not installed" right up to Type 47, whichs has all values at 0 for the following: Cylinders/Head/Wpcom/Lzone/Sect/Size?

Any ideas how I may be able to identify these values for my drive?

Thank you
 
My drive is a Maxtor model 712OAT, 1/2 height 120 megs IDE hard drive from 1991.
I've discovered that Seagate bought Maxtor awhile back, but no specs for my drive
on their website. I have taken the drive out of the pc, and it reads the following specs: HDA 22P1, PCBA 38P1, Unique 30P1 and Uplevel 3592.

It also says Z, Z, B and A207SPPS on the bar code.

Does this offer up any information? I'm curious if PCBA being 38P1, also means my hard drive is type 38?

Forgive my ignorance, but when I power up my pc, there are green lit numbers reading 33, beside the Turbo button, when I press the turbo button it goes to 16, and it does say Mhz beside the green letters.

May I ask, where exactly do I find the battery and how would I go about replacing it.

I'm learning here, thank you guys for your time
 
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