Chris_in_Japan
Experienced Member
Hi Everybody!
After long absence and after having repaired a 5160 with your help I came one week ago to an 5155 along (100$) that has some flaws that I was hoping to fix again with some good advices from you...
The machine is configured with 256kb RAM, one original 5 1/4 floppy and one hard drive. MS-DOS 5 is the installed OS.
The symptoms:
- The units powers on and posts successfully up to 256kb
- The error code 601 pops up together with the message "Press <F1> to resume"
- After pressing F1 the PC boots perfectly from the hard drive and prompts readily with "C:"
- Going to A: calls the message "fail, abort or retry".
- Going to B: calls the message "insert a disk..." and after inserting a formatted floppy disk it calls again the message "fail, abort or retry"
- The led in the floppy at any moment lights on and any kind of movement or motor spin is heard in the drive.
Voila!
What would be now the reasonable steps to follow to narrow the search of the root cause? I will obey and report back!
Many thanks to all!
Kind regards from Liechtenstein.
Chris
After long absence and after having repaired a 5160 with your help I came one week ago to an 5155 along (100$) that has some flaws that I was hoping to fix again with some good advices from you...
The machine is configured with 256kb RAM, one original 5 1/4 floppy and one hard drive. MS-DOS 5 is the installed OS.
The symptoms:
- The units powers on and posts successfully up to 256kb
- The error code 601 pops up together with the message "Press <F1> to resume"
- After pressing F1 the PC boots perfectly from the hard drive and prompts readily with "C:"
- Going to A: calls the message "fail, abort or retry".
- Going to B: calls the message "insert a disk..." and after inserting a formatted floppy disk it calls again the message "fail, abort or retry"
- The led in the floppy at any moment lights on and any kind of movement or motor spin is heard in the drive.
Voila!
What would be now the reasonable steps to follow to narrow the search of the root cause? I will obey and report back!
Many thanks to all!
Kind regards from Liechtenstein.
Chris