Reply 20 of 31, by mkarcher
LHN91 wrote on 2020-06-10, 01:56:I took the card out of the machine - It was actually counting time on that launch screen with the floppy card not in the machine, which is what worried me.
DOS is perfectly able to count time on an PC or XT without a clock card installed. It just looses time and date as soon as you power off the machine. So no worries if the clock is just ticking. You need to start worrying if it does not start at 00:00 after each power cycle.
LHN91 wrote on 2020-06-10, 01:56:After that first few successful boots, however, now it spins up, but seems to have an issue seeking - it tries 2 or 3 times and then fails to a Disk Boot Failure. I'll still play around with it to see if I can coax it into living again.
Sound like it really is time for a drop of oil on the axis of the head actuator. It can be accessed from the bottom side. Your case should have holes in the base plate that help you unmounting the hard drive.