DarkKnight4251
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Hello! I just received an IBM XT 5160 form a coworker who said that it doesn't work and has no clue on how to fix it. So I figured I'd dive right in and see what I could find out. Probably not the best way to enter the vintage computer world, but here I am.
I found out it was giving a 1701 error at first (supposedly general HDD failure from my googling) and I could not press F1 to continue. I tried multiple keyboards that he had and now it gives me a 1701 and F6000 ROM error (bad chips according to a post here). The PC still does not allow F1 to continue the boot and it now continuously gives short beeps. According to the documentation that I've seen, this isn't a POST error beep. I noticed that when I press keys on the keyboard (F1 or otherwise) the beeping stops for a second, then continues. I'm thinking I have some bad components on the motherboard itself, but I'm kind of at a loss on specifics. I've tried making sure any chips are seated, so I'm pretty sure that if it is a chip on the MB, then it's bad completely.
Am I correct in thinking I have a MB failure somewhere here? If so, what would you recommend next troubleshooting steps would be? Will this allow all expansion cards to be unplugged and perform a proper POST to see if that's the issue? Last time I had an 8088 computer, I was just a kid and never had to troubleshoot so I'm learning on the fly here.
I found out it was giving a 1701 error at first (supposedly general HDD failure from my googling) and I could not press F1 to continue. I tried multiple keyboards that he had and now it gives me a 1701 and F6000 ROM error (bad chips according to a post here). The PC still does not allow F1 to continue the boot and it now continuously gives short beeps. According to the documentation that I've seen, this isn't a POST error beep. I noticed that when I press keys on the keyboard (F1 or otherwise) the beeping stops for a second, then continues. I'm thinking I have some bad components on the motherboard itself, but I'm kind of at a loss on specifics. I've tried making sure any chips are seated, so I'm pretty sure that if it is a chip on the MB, then it's bad completely.
Am I correct in thinking I have a MB failure somewhere here? If so, what would you recommend next troubleshooting steps would be? Will this allow all expansion cards to be unplugged and perform a proper POST to see if that's the issue? Last time I had an 8088 computer, I was just a kid and never had to troubleshoot so I'm learning on the fly here.