home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!po.CWRU.Edu!axa12
- From: axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar)
- Subject: Need help with PS/2 Model 70
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.235822.14578@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Sender: news@usenet.ins.cwru.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu
- Reply-To: axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar)
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 23:58:22 GMT
- Lines: 43
-
-
- Our lab just acquired a PS/2 Model 70 (16 MHz vintage - '88).
- Unfortunately this computer has a flaky 1.44 meg A:\ drive
- that craps out about 50% of the time.
-
- I just installed a Math co-processor in the computer and it
- used the reference disk on it to update the CMOS. After this
- it continued to occasionally give me errors during BOOT, specifically
- ERROR # 162.
-
- Anyway, that problem seems to have resolved itself. In the
- mean while we tried to load some of our software on the beast,
- but the A:\ drive (the only floppy) wouldn't work around half
- the way through.
-
- At this point in desparation we called the campus bookstore
- to call a computer tech. This guy ripped the motherboard out,
- and replaced it. The floppy still didn't work, and when he
- put the hard-drive in he didn't plug it in quite right.
- Naturally the computer wouldn't boot. He however claimed
- that the HD was shot, and that since the CMOS settings were
- set in the HD (IS THIS TRUE?), we needed a new HD as well.
- He put the old motherboard back in again before leaving.
-
- After he left, I put plugged the HD back in again, and everything
- works again, with the exception that the floppy drive works
- about 50% of the time.
-
- Could this really be a motherboard problem, or more likely is
- the floppy drive shot. If it is the latter, does anyone know
- where I can get a reliable (and not too expensive PS/2 floppy
- drive)? Also is the computer tech.'s claim that the CMOS
- settings of PS/2's being stored on the HD correct or is that
- incorrect? I kind of got the impression that this guy was
- balling us.
-
- Ashok
- --
- Ashok A. Aiyar Department of Biochemistry CWRU Med. School
- axa12@po.cwru.edu
- aiyar@cwbio.bioc.cwru.edu
- Visit the IBM-PC Sig on Freenet
-