First post, by Hydrohs
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Picked up a Packard Bell Pack-Mate 1984 out of the recycling today. Had a 486SX, 16MB of RAM, 212MB hard drive, ATI VGA Wonder 16 and a Packard Bell laballed sound card (FCC ID I38-MMSN811). Booted into DOS no problem (after resetting CMOS as the battery was dead) so I swapped the 486SX for a 486DX2-66 that I had, configured the jumpers according to the sticker on the chassis lid and desoldered the battery as it had begun to leak, no major damage yet thankfully.
Now after doing that I wanted to verify that my CPU swap had gone off fine and was detected, so I threw HWiNFO on a floppy and tried to read it, only to be presented with the message that drive A was not yet ready. After choosing retry a bunch of times with no luck, I tried another disk, still nothing and so I swapped the drive for a known working one. Same issue. I have no clue what the issue might be, I get no errors at boot time, and the access light lights up when the drive is attempting to read, but that's it. Not sure if it's a cabling thing or not, the cable that was installed in the machine also has a 5.25" connector, but no 5.25" drive is installed.
My second issue is that this machine has an IDE CD-ROM drive installed, but when I connect this, the computer wont start up. It has no jumpers for configuring master/slave. The hard drive is set to master, I never thought to try before I finished messing around with it today but perhaps setting the hard drive as slave would work?
So yeah, not exactly sure what's causing both of these issues, here's a picture of the board, any help is much appreciated: