GreyHairedDECfan
Experienced Member
This is a machine that I set up years ago at a customer site and acquired after it was replaced with something newer. Last time I had it running was about 15 years ago, it's been in storage since.
I took it out and set it up in one of my spare rooms. Carefully vacuumed everything out and cleaned the case with cleaning wipes.
Plugged it in and about an hour later smelled a little burnt odor. Note that this was without powering the machine up, just plugging in the power cord. But hoping that could just be an errant spider. No evidence of animals or chewed wiring at all inside, that I can see.
I hooked it up to a laptop running Putty and can communicate with it just fine, but (uh oh) it reports that DU0: is not ready and won't boot. I did pull the back panel and reseated the boards and ribbon cables. Did not attempt to pull the drive (RD54 I think, but could be wrong) to reseat that end of the cable.
Where should I go from here? Appreciate any help. Some pics attached. BTW does the neon lamp in the power switch indicate something (the button cracked unfortunately. It lights up solid orange at power-up, but then changes to a flicker and eventually nothing).
I've been wanting to get this baby up and running again for a while, and was pleasantly surprised to come across this forum!
I took it out and set it up in one of my spare rooms. Carefully vacuumed everything out and cleaned the case with cleaning wipes.
Plugged it in and about an hour later smelled a little burnt odor. Note that this was without powering the machine up, just plugging in the power cord. But hoping that could just be an errant spider. No evidence of animals or chewed wiring at all inside, that I can see.
I hooked it up to a laptop running Putty and can communicate with it just fine, but (uh oh) it reports that DU0: is not ready and won't boot. I did pull the back panel and reseated the boards and ribbon cables. Did not attempt to pull the drive (RD54 I think, but could be wrong) to reseat that end of the cable.
Where should I go from here? Appreciate any help. Some pics attached. BTW does the neon lamp in the power switch indicate something (the button cracked unfortunately. It lights up solid orange at power-up, but then changes to a flicker and eventually nothing).
I've been wanting to get this baby up and running again for a while, and was pleasantly surprised to come across this forum!