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First post, by andy120

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My asus PVI-486 with a POB83 will not recognise any dos or hard drive with an os on it. Tryed usb floppy with dos 6, 7 win98se boot, CF with 98. it did read a 512 with 98 but after trying a 2gb CF (normal or LBA) , i cannot get it to read the 512 (normal) either. Have put the FDD and HDD on an off board card with no joy as well.

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Reply 1 of 8, by Horun

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andy120 wrote on 2022-11-05, 18:17:

My asus PVI-486 with a POB83 will not recognise any dos or hard drive with an os on it. Tryed usb floppy with dos 6, 7 win98se boot

How are you using a USB floppy drive on the PVI-486 ? It does not have any USB ports and doubt you could get a USB PCI adapter to work with a USB floppy drive on it.... just curious.

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Reply 2 of 8, by andy120

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I have one of those floppies that use a usb stick cut up into 100 disks. I have found some real 3.5" floppies to try. No usb's on board, but i do have a nec chipped usb card and a usb floppy. i will give them a go. Last i tried, the usb floppy disks were not interchangeable with the real FDD's for some reason.

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Reply 3 of 8, by Horun

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You are working with a 486 based computer. There are no USB solutions for a 486 floppy drive AFAIK that will work. You must use a real floppy drive.

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Reply 4 of 8, by Murugan

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Or a Gotek as I do 😀

My retro collection: too much...

Reply 5 of 8, by andy120

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i use a gotek

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Reply 6 of 8, by andy120

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i'm still having no luck with this. it recognizes a cf card but, like a FDD, will not even attempt to read it on boot, just throw the i/o error. with an off board controller, it too recognizes the cf card and no boot either. where can i get a new bios chip from? i dont have anything to write one.

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Reply 8 of 8, by andy120

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My other 486 and pentium 1 all boot off them fine. a new bios chip is my next thing.

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