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First post, by seob

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After a few days of trying and replacing components in the psu, i finally got my pc-I running again.
After trying it a hour or so and connecting a amiga drive onto the diskdrive port.

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So i can use it as drive B. Works really nice.
But now i get a "timer chip 2 failed". Need help fixing this error. Any ideas?

Reply 1 of 2, by sliderider

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It looks like it's not holding the date (the year is 19xx) which might be a bad clock battery. That might be what's generating your error.

Also, are you're sure that Amiga drives are supposed to be compatible with it? If they're not compatible, then you might have shorted something when you plugged it in. Just because the connector is the same, doesn't mean the signals are.

Reply 2 of 2, by seob

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There is no clock battery in this computer. You need to set time and date every time you do a cold boot.
The amiga drives are supported. It was of the selling point of this computer, that you could use amiga drives and mouse on this machine. I got this out of the original manual for the pc-I.

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