First post, by kaolinitedreams
I am trying to get my Zeos 486dx up and running. It came with no hard drive. I have tried SD Card/IDE adapters, CF/IDE adapters, 2 working hard disks (1994)....all different size formats - 250mb, 512mb, 850mb, 1gb, 2gb (and others.) I can partition the drives from FDISK (SD and CF), but whenever I go to format the drives, I encounter an error to format the C Drive. If I try to format in the DOS setup, it gives me an error to read and write to C Drive. The hard disks that are already formatted into FAT and working with DOS run fine (formatted from another old 486), but whenever I try and install Win95 or ANYTHING, I get an error to read and write to C Drive.
At this point, it can't possibly be a hard drive issue, considering some of the formatted hard disks that are up and running still won't read and write. I have tried new cables and new RAM. The only thing that it might be an issue is that my BIOS doesn't have a lot of options (Phoenix 1.0) for the RAM. According to the Zeos computer guide for my computer, the Bios should automatically detect it. I'm leaning that it is a RAM issue, or maybe I just have a dud motherboard. I got a few suggestions about DDOs; I don't know much about them, but I am looking into this now, though I'm not sure how it will help considering my drive sizes are still small and this seems like a hardware issue.
Any input into this would be greatly appreciated.
