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First post, by sunaiac

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Hi guys,

what is the best way to find what is faulty in a floppy chain ?
I got a shuttle HOT433 on which I fail to launch dos setup.
It begins, and ends in an error reading the file, with the Abandon/Retry/Fail usual stuff.

I (We actually) tried 2 floppy drives, several disks, 2 floppy cables, checked and rechecked connectors.
The only common part is the motherboard in all our tests.

Is there a way to be definitely sure the MB is faulty ?

Reply 1 of 4, by Joey_sw

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what type of error depend on what the DOS said before the "Abort/Retry/Fail"

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Reply 2 of 4, by sunaiac

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Err, I don't remember exactly.
Not an I/O error, more like a read error, but I don't remember the exact sentence.

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Reply 3 of 4, by JaNoZ

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Have you tried to disable onboard and use an isa multi io card instead with fdd controller?
Or maybe an irq conflict with some device.
I assume the light of the fdd is out when posting the mobo, maybe the cable is reversed?

Reply 4 of 4, by sunaiac

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Well the light goes on at post, then the boot disk is recognised. I can actually boot on very simple boot disks.
But none of my DOS installation disks can go to the end...

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