Using brand new floppy disk and drive.
Boots into DOS fine if there is no HDD installed.
but as soon as I try booting off the floppy with the drive installed, it hangs with a white flashing cursor.
Any ideas?
I've tried different IO cards and drives with no difference in results.
change the ide ribbon cable for the ide drive? Try a different hard drive. Either way sounds like faulty hardware.
This is a strange one.
I swapped out the RAM with a different set of SIMM Memory and it works fine!
All this time I was thinking it was a faulty drive or something else at fault.
Weird thing is i was running Memtest86 all day on it and it passed!
Perhaps some sort of incompatibility problem?
nzoomed wrote on 2020-08-05, 06:11:This is a strange one. I swapped out the RAM with a different set of SIMM Memory and it works fine! All this time I was thinking […]
This is a strange one.
I swapped out the RAM with a different set of SIMM Memory and it works fine!
All this time I was thinking it was a faulty drive or something else at fault.Weird thing is i was running Memtest86 all day on it and it passed!
Perhaps some sort of incompatibility problem?
Some of my SiS based 486 motherboards do this when I use EDO SIMMs and forget to select "EDO DRAM installed" from bios.
Socket3 wrote on 2020-08-06, 13:14:nzoomed wrote on 2020-08-05, 06:11:This is a strange one. I swapped out the RAM with a different set of SIMM Memory and it works fine! All this time I was thinking […]
This is a strange one.
I swapped out the RAM with a different set of SIMM Memory and it works fine!
All this time I was thinking it was a faulty drive or something else at fault.Weird thing is i was running Memtest86 all day on it and it passed!
Perhaps some sort of incompatibility problem?Some of my SiS based 486 motherboards do this when I use EDO SIMMs and forget to select "EDO DRAM installed" from bios.
I think this board predates EDO memory, being a 386, but have been told that 3 chip simm memory quite often is probelatic.
If parity was enabled it also would crash. Seems to be fine with parity with these other simms, but will still need to do a memtest.
If it's large hdd, try to boot from WD EZ-Drive floppy
Doom is what you want (c) MAZter
