The light comes on and there is a brief noise from inside, but I don't see the motor even trying to spin. My B: drive that had the similar failings from this machine at least tries to spin the motor, even if it doesn't read anything. So... yeah I've managed to make it worse. I rechecked every …

I tried recapping one of the drives but same behavior. Cleaned the drive heads as well. Did you recap both PCBs, or only the main one? The drive has a second PCB that controls the spindle motor. I had a PS/2 Model 30 drive where the cap on the motor PCB failed, causing the drive to run at erratic …

So I have an 8086 PS/2 Model 30 (8530-002). This model came up with two 720k 3.5" floppy drives. Now the computer itself actually works. BIOS settings were cleared when I first got it. I've already replaced the barrel battery with a CR2032 one. When I put an XT-IDE in it everything seems to work, …

Hey thanks, I did that and it did work. The strange problem that I keep encountering however is that the joystick is never centered in game even when I am not pressing any keys. Any idea what would cause that? I've tried running through the recalibration with no luck.

Hello, so is there any way for me to map say the keypad keys to mimic joystick axes so that I can make a program run through dosbox think my keypad is a joystick? Specifically I'm trying to play Star Rangers, but the game does not seem to let me fly the ship without an actual joystick. Dosbox .74 …