twilliamc
New Member
With the college semester over, I finally have time to dig in and fix my Vendex Turbo-888-XT. I received it with an RTC battery already eating away. After clipping and removing the leads, cleaning the board, and replacing a 33pf tantalum capacitor I was able to get life out of the system.
As you can see in the photos, the system is unable to read the floppy disk with the head failing to even budge. I have confirmed the stock drives and my own written disks (formatted in 360k) work in my 486. The 486 even tried to boot to it... I even tried purchasing an IBM floppy controller which gives the same result: drive light on, spins, and finally a disk bad error.
Does anyone have any tips on getting the old guy to boot? On a possibly related note, should I clean that spot corrosion more? It is only limited to that area now. If it turns out I do not need the IBM controller card, I will happily mail it out to someone for their assistance.
As you can see in the photos, the system is unable to read the floppy disk with the head failing to even budge. I have confirmed the stock drives and my own written disks (formatted in 360k) work in my 486. The 486 even tried to boot to it... I even tried purchasing an IBM floppy controller which gives the same result: drive light on, spins, and finally a disk bad error.
Does anyone have any tips on getting the old guy to boot? On a possibly related note, should I clean that spot corrosion more? It is only limited to that area now. If it turns out I do not need the IBM controller card, I will happily mail it out to someone for their assistance.