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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!isucard.card.iastate.edu!MLONG
  3. From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
  4. Subject: Re: Need help with PS/2 Model 70
  5. Message-ID: <1682E1163E.MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu>
  6. Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
  7. Organization: CARD
  8. References:  <1992Jul24.235822.14578@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
  9. Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:47:03 GMT
  10. Lines: 61
  11.  
  12. In article <1992Jul24.235822.14578@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>                         
  13. axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar) writes:                                         
  14.                                                                                 
  15. >                                                                               
  16. >Our lab just acquired a PS/2 Model 70 (16 MHz vintage - '88).                  
  17. >Unfortunately this computer has a flaky 1.44 meg A:\ drive                     
  18. >that craps out about 50% of the time.                                          
  19. >                                                                               
  20. >I just installed a Math co-processor in the computer and it                    
  21. >used the reference disk on it to update the CMOS.  After this                  
  22. >it continued to occasionally give me errors during BOOT, specifically          
  23. >ERROR # 162.                                                                   
  24. >                                                                               
  25. >Anyway, that problem seems to have resolved itself.  In the                    
  26. >mean while we tried to load some of our software on the beast,                 
  27. >but the A:\ drive (the only floppy) wouldn't work around half                  
  28. >the way through.                                                               
  29. >                                                                               
  30. >At this point in desparation we called the campus bookstore                    
  31. >to call a computer tech.  This guy ripped the motherboard out,                 
  32. >and replaced it.  The floppy still didn't work, and when he                    
  33. >put the hard-drive in he didn't plug it in quite right.                        
  34. >Naturally the computer wouldn't boot.  He however claimed                      
  35. >that the HD was shot, and that since the CMOS settings were                    
  36. >set in the HD (IS THIS TRUE?), we needed a new HD as well.                     
  37.                                                                                 
  38. NO                                                                              
  39.                                                                                 
  40. >He put the old motherboard back in again before leaving.                       
  41. >                                                                               
  42. >After he left, I put plugged the HD back in again, and everything              
  43. >works again, with the exception that the floppy drive works                    
  44. >about 50% of the time.                                                         
  45. >                                                                               
  46. >Could this really be a motherboard problem, or more likely is                  
  47. >the floppy drive shot.  If it is the latter, does anyone know                  
  48.                                                                                 
  49. Sounds like the floppy to me from your description.  Might want to give the     
  50. latest DASDDRVR.SYS driver a try first, from 1-29-91, 3068 size.  It is some    
  51. patch that fixes some floppy problems with some models, goes in config.sys.     
  52.                                                                                 
  53. >where I can get a reliable (and not too expensive PS/2 floppy                  
  54. >drive)?  Also is the computer tech.'s claim that the CMOS                      
  55. >settings of PS/2's being stored on the HD correct or is that                   
  56. >incorrect?  I kind of got the impression that this guy was                     
  57. >balling us.                                                                    
  58. >                                                                               
  59.                                                                                 
  60. I think he was misinformed                                                      
  61.                                                                                 
  62.                                                                                 
  63. >Ashok                                                                          
  64. >--                                                                             
  65. >  Ashok A. Aiyar   Department of Biochemistry   CWRU Med. School               
  66. >                  axa12@po.cwru.edu                                                  
  67. >           aiyar@cwbio.bioc.cwru.edu                                                 
  68. >                Visit the IBM-PC Sig on Freenet                                
  69. >                                                                               
  70. Sorry if this messes up your news reader :->                                    
  71. Mike Long                                                                       
  72. Iowa State University                                                           
  73.