First post, by Deksor
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- l33t
It has been 10 month since I've got that 8088. It first came with an 5"1/4 fdd which was really dirty and as I didn't have any disks for it last year, I did put an 1.44MB fdd. The Io card was busted due to acid leakage so I replaced it with another one. It worked ok for a while ... At some point I had some 5"1/4 floppy disks and I thought the 5"1/4 disk drive was busted and I had been looking for a replacement. Today I've gotten a working fdd which I tested in another PC first ...
But once I did put it in it, the new FDD stopped working. I was wondering why it was doing this. I tested everything : moving the io card from one slot to another, changing the floppy cable, changing the io card. The thing never worked. And the 1.44MB disk drive stopped working too.
At that point, I was wondering if the computer didn't have a problem, so I took the old "not working" drive and I did put it in my 386 to test it. And guess what ? It worked like a charm. So now I've got the proof that my 8088 has a problem and it's not related to the drive, the io card or the cables ...
But how could this happen ? there was some battery leakage on the board, but I cleaned it. When I say the drive don't work, I mean that when I take "A:" then "Dir", the drive tries to access the floppy disk (the led comes on and the disk starts to spin) but the head never moves. I also tried "format a:" and sometimes it says "general failure" and the rest of the time it says "track 0 error"
Could the battery leakage be the origin to this even though I did clean the board ?
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