First post, by Ace
I dug up an old Packard Bell Legend 316SX my father brought home over 10 years ago, and I'm trying to get it back up and running again(computer runs on an AMD 386SX clocked at 25MHz with 4MB of RAM). The hard drive that was originally in the computer crashed, and I wound up replacing it with a 7GB hard drive in which I formatted a 200MB partition using FDISK(this computer will not work with partitions bigger than 200MB). The floppy drive was also replaced, since the old one is having a lot of trouble reading floppies(but the new drive is many times slower than the old one). Since this computer has no CD-ROM drive and Windows 95 seems like it'll be really sluggish, I decided to install MS-DOS v6.22 on the hard drive. It took a really long time to install, but it installed no problem. However, when I restarted the computer to test out DOS, it would not boot. It gets past the POST, but after that, the hard drive activity LED remains lit for several minutes(it's not blinking) before the computer gives an error(I don't remember what the error says, but I'll check what it says later on today).
I did have a few rather nasty RAM problems on a computer which I set up for a Windows 95/Windows XP dual-boot where whenever I'd boot XP, I'd get an error saying a file was missing, the Windows XP install disc failed to work, and whenever I tried to boot Windows 95, the computer would reset itself. Once I removed the faulty RAM stick, the problems went away. This leads me to believe there might be a faulty RAM stick in the 316SX. Is this a RAM problem or is something else shot on the motherboard?