Hi Everyone,
Hopefully you guys can help - I am trying to revive an old ibm model 30 (xt version) so i can play all the fun windows 3.0 and dos games from yesteryear :0

anyway, here's what's happening, all original parts:

everything is plugged in and i get:
a 161 set date and time error - for the life of me i can't figure out how to set it, and the screen doesn't give me any clues.
right after that i get a 1701 fixed disk error. i am sure it's the hd. if i remove the hd the error goes away but alas no hd.
then is says non-system disk or disk error no doubt because there's nothing to boot.

but no matter what i put in the floppy drive it doesn't matter i get the same. ideas? this is the system put together. monitor, keyboard, hd, floppy, and riser card. ideas? i can't seem to get past this even if i put a boot disk in the floppy. i figured i just had to format and reinstall stuff on the hd but it doesn't appear to let me get that far. it doesn't let me get into a bios either but i forget if the mbs of this age even had one?

if i remove the hard drive, i get the 161 error, then it asks me to push F1 to continue. if I do, then it takes me to a picture of what looks to me like it asking me to put a disk in the drive. i do - but it doesn't appear to read it. nor is it obvious to me what next to do. i have tried pushing all of the f keys and they are commands but they don't do anything other than make the text appear on the screen.

i am a long time tech, but i will admit its been so long since i have monkeyed with any of this i have forgotten how a lot of this works. any help would be appreciated as i am ripping my hair out here! :0 thanks much!!!