old pc

[Maverick54]

A friend of mine gave me an old pc to work on. He said he fomatted the hard drive but can"t do anything else with it. There is no back up disk nothing with it.I truned it on and all that comes up is a screen with is
cpu (75mhz) pentium
coprocessor installed
sys ram 640 KB
extened ram 48128kb
shower ram 384kb
cache ram 256kb
The name of the bios is 1985 to 1994 Phoenix technologies ltd.
how do i get this pc to run again im lost. I checked the partitions and the is just one. Can i get this thing to work again?
And there is one more thing i like to say i think that this is a great place to find answers the people are great thank you all for being here.

John

[sleddog]

Sounds like you're 90% of the way there. Do you get a C:\ prompt? If not you need a floppy bootdisk for the operating system you plan to install. Do you have one, or do you know how to make one?

Is there a CD drive? You'll need one to install Windows 95 or 98... unless you remove the harddrive, put it into another machine and copy the installation files to it (and then put it back).

A few answers and we'll get started....

[Maverick54]

Originally posted by Maverick54:
A friend of mine gave me an old pc to work on. He said he fomatted the hard drive but can"t do anything else with it. There is no back up disk nothing with it.I truned it on and all that comes up is a screen with is
cpu (75mhz) pentium
coprocessor installed
sys ram 640 KB
extened ram 48128kb
shower ram 384kb
cache ram 256kb
The name of the bios is 1985 to 1994 Phoenix technologies ltd.
how do i get this pc to run again im lost. I checked the partitions and the is just one. Can i get this thing to work again?
And there is one more thing i like to say i think that this is a great place to find answers the people are great thank you all for being here.

John

Yes i made a boot disk from my pc and i have a cd win98 then it keeps coming up at the a promt, i type set up and nothing happends what am i doing wrong.

[Paleo Pete]

Using the Boot Disk, at the A:\> prompt, make sure the Windows CD is in the CD ROM drive, switch to your CD ROM by typing the drive letter, D: if you only have one hard drive, and include the colon. Then type setup with no space between set and up. That should do it, assuming your CD ROM is working. A win98 bootdisk will install temporary CD ROM drivers if you choose Start Computer with CD ROM Suport. Then your CD will be E: drive, not D, the boot disk will create a ramdrive with utilities and it will be D: until setup finishes, then the CD will drop back to D.

Quick Guide to a win98 Fresh Start (http://www.hardwarehell.com/fdisk.htm) might help.

If you're planning to install win98, be prepared for a fairly slow machine, but the P-75 should run it.

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[sleddog]

It would be *much* happier with Windows 95. A P75 with 48mb RAM can hum along very nicely with Win95. Oh well.

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