mikeyp
Experienced Member
Hi all
Really weird issue today with my 5160. It's been working fine, no major issues, everything pretty reliable so far.
Today I went to put a 2nd floppy drive (Gotek with HxC firmware) in above the hard disk. Connected it up, turned off switch 7 on the motherboard, everything good to go you'd think. It booted first time just fine. Now, whenever I turn it off or press Ctrl-Alt-Del, it gives disk boot failure. Doesn't matter what drive, they're all the same. Original 360K Floppy, disk boot failure. MFM HDD, disk boot failure. XT-IDE, disk boot failure. Any one of the 3 on their own with the others removed, disk boot failure. The XT-IDE BIOS loads, I can select by pressing A, B, C, D etc, but all disk boot failure.
Here's where it gets really weird. Put in a floppy disk I generated with WinImage, I get the boot sector text with Gilles Vollant so it's clearly reading ok, it then says it's not a system disk, trying system disk and... disk boot failure.
If I leave it for 30 minutes and start it from cold, it boots fine. Reads all drives fine, until I restart.
I've just put switch 7 back on and taken the extra floppy out of the equation, back as it was and... disk boot failure.
Anyone got any thoughts on what now please?
Really weird issue today with my 5160. It's been working fine, no major issues, everything pretty reliable so far.
Today I went to put a 2nd floppy drive (Gotek with HxC firmware) in above the hard disk. Connected it up, turned off switch 7 on the motherboard, everything good to go you'd think. It booted first time just fine. Now, whenever I turn it off or press Ctrl-Alt-Del, it gives disk boot failure. Doesn't matter what drive, they're all the same. Original 360K Floppy, disk boot failure. MFM HDD, disk boot failure. XT-IDE, disk boot failure. Any one of the 3 on their own with the others removed, disk boot failure. The XT-IDE BIOS loads, I can select by pressing A, B, C, D etc, but all disk boot failure.
Here's where it gets really weird. Put in a floppy disk I generated with WinImage, I get the boot sector text with Gilles Vollant so it's clearly reading ok, it then says it's not a system disk, trying system disk and... disk boot failure.
If I leave it for 30 minutes and start it from cold, it boots fine. Reads all drives fine, until I restart.
I've just put switch 7 back on and taken the extra floppy out of the equation, back as it was and... disk boot failure.
Anyone got any thoughts on what now please?