The only thing I’ve noticed that gets warm is the CPU. I’ve turned it on with nothing in it, and still nothing. I’ve tried pushing on the ram. Nothing. On the cpu. Nothing. On the bios chips. Still, nothing. I’m at a total loss.

Now it just booted into the BIOS twice. I had the lock unplugged and that locks keyboard input. Plugged the lock back in now it won’t boot. Don’t know if it helped, but I did take the jumper out of the pins near the CPU

Cleaned the sockets and nothing.

Any idea how to get Checkit on to a floppy? 5.25 or 3.5. Could I just use a usb 3.5 floppy drive with my Windows 10 computer?

Been reseating the ram so many times. All the jumpers look correct to the paperwork. I haven’t cleaned the sockets yet. You think automotive contact cleaner would be okay? I don’t want to have to wait for Deoxit to come in.

Here’s that photo. I did have a battery that was leaking and I took out. There was some corrosion near the keyboard connector. I dropped a few drops of IPA and vinegar just to take card of that. Might take out that chip and clean under it, replace it with a socket.

Recently got a 286 Kouwell KW-241 pc. Also picked up a POST card to see any codes. Everything checks out fine, but it only boots into the BIOS sometimes. I have a feeling it’s a RAM problem, but if it was, I wouldn’t boot at all. The only cards I have in it are the EGA card and the FDD/HDD …