dengelland
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I'll try to keep this simple (thats the kind of mind I have).
At work we have a Haake Buchler Reohmeter controlled by a vintage pc.
It had not been used for 15 yrs. so I uncovered it 7 cleaned it up and started running some tests with it.
The manual describes the pc as having a 80286 microproccessor
640 K Ram
1 - 1.2 mg floppy 5.25 disk drive
1 - 20 mg hard drive
80287 coprocessor
moniter, printer & keyboard
8 expansion slots
Faraday A-tease motherboard
AT form
Anyway it worked just fine till I changed the clock batteries because I got tired of setting the clock everytime it was booted up.
Also the fresh out of school chemical engineer working in R&D decided maybe it wasn't such a bad thing at that and started running some tests.
When I got back to work after my long break, the pc wouldn"t boot up and gave no errors. We got it going again by unhooking the power to the hard drive, trying to boot, then hooking power back up and it booted. We decided not to shut it downtill we could get it fixed.
Then after being off for a weekend, when I came in, it was off & when I turned it on it checks the 640 ram, starts checking ram over 1 mg then displays (illegal shut down code in cmos) and then loops back.
The motherboard is a Faraday, A-tease with a date on some chips of 1985 and that is about the age of the machine.
I have tried every suggestion that I have been able to track down on the internet to get to the bios to clear the error ( from F1 to disconnecting the keyboard to trying to reset the bios back to default) all to no availe.
Now what I think what happened is that the clock batteries had been laying in there for 15 yrs and leaked down onto some chips and corroded them.
Do you guys think this is saveable or should i just look for another motherboard and if so, what should I look for?I have seen some on the internet, but am not smart enough in that area to know whether they would fit.
There is a whole machine on e-bay but they want ore than I lost in my 401K the last 3 months.
This machine is no longer made and new versions cost more than I make in 2 yrs.
Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You
David
At work we have a Haake Buchler Reohmeter controlled by a vintage pc.
It had not been used for 15 yrs. so I uncovered it 7 cleaned it up and started running some tests with it.
The manual describes the pc as having a 80286 microproccessor
640 K Ram
1 - 1.2 mg floppy 5.25 disk drive
1 - 20 mg hard drive
80287 coprocessor
moniter, printer & keyboard
8 expansion slots
Faraday A-tease motherboard
AT form
Anyway it worked just fine till I changed the clock batteries because I got tired of setting the clock everytime it was booted up.
Also the fresh out of school chemical engineer working in R&D decided maybe it wasn't such a bad thing at that and started running some tests.
When I got back to work after my long break, the pc wouldn"t boot up and gave no errors. We got it going again by unhooking the power to the hard drive, trying to boot, then hooking power back up and it booted. We decided not to shut it downtill we could get it fixed.
Then after being off for a weekend, when I came in, it was off & when I turned it on it checks the 640 ram, starts checking ram over 1 mg then displays (illegal shut down code in cmos) and then loops back.
The motherboard is a Faraday, A-tease with a date on some chips of 1985 and that is about the age of the machine.
I have tried every suggestion that I have been able to track down on the internet to get to the bios to clear the error ( from F1 to disconnecting the keyboard to trying to reset the bios back to default) all to no availe.
Now what I think what happened is that the clock batteries had been laying in there for 15 yrs and leaked down onto some chips and corroded them.
Do you guys think this is saveable or should i just look for another motherboard and if so, what should I look for?I have seen some on the internet, but am not smart enough in that area to know whether they would fit.
There is a whole machine on e-bay but they want ore than I lost in my 401K the last 3 months.
This machine is no longer made and new versions cost more than I make in 2 yrs.
Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You
David