SonataFanatica
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Hello there!
I've been searching the web for answers to some problems I have with my IBM PS/1 (model 2121).
(In fact, I have two of them at home, one of which has a monochrome monitor and the other a color monitor.)
Now one of the two computers has always worked really well. Everything worked perfectly apart from the fact that I got the errors 161 and 163 when booting up, but I take it those are only because of the empty CMOS battery.
Pressing F1 always bootet the PC up just as well.
Yesterday, I wanted to install MS-DOS on a new empty hard drive. The problem was that when I changed the boot sequence in order to boot from floppy disks, it only worked when I had the original hard drive connected.
So whenever I connected a new hard drive to the computer and THEN booted it up again, the computer would always boot from ROM and not load the floppy first.
So I booted up the computer with the original hard drive, set the machine to boot the floppy drive first, restarted the computer with my original MS-DOS setup disk (1 of 3) in the floppy drive, waited until all loading was done (the MS-DOS installation program said "please press RETURN in order to install MS-DOS") and then WHILE the computer was running, I unplugged the original hard drive from the power and data cables and plugged those cables into the new, empty hard drive.
While I was in the middle of plugging the new one in, the screen went blank.
So I shut down the computer and turned it back on.
Now the thing doesn't start anymore.
I don't even get into the POST.
I turn it on and the screen stays black. The only things running seem to be the monitor and the computer's fan.
No hard drive (neither the original one, nor the new one) even powers up.
Did I break it completely? I know it was a stupid thing to do, but I really thought it would work. And even if not, I didn't think I'd break the computer that way...
Does anybody know anything I could do?
I'm absolutely crushed and couldn't sleep last night because of it all...
Thank you in advance for any replies!
PS: Of course, I also tried booting up the other IBM PS/1 I have, but it turns out that one doesn't boot up either. It also doesn't get to the POST.
I tried both monitors, but to no avail.
I've been searching the web for answers to some problems I have with my IBM PS/1 (model 2121).
(In fact, I have two of them at home, one of which has a monochrome monitor and the other a color monitor.)
Now one of the two computers has always worked really well. Everything worked perfectly apart from the fact that I got the errors 161 and 163 when booting up, but I take it those are only because of the empty CMOS battery.
Pressing F1 always bootet the PC up just as well.
Yesterday, I wanted to install MS-DOS on a new empty hard drive. The problem was that when I changed the boot sequence in order to boot from floppy disks, it only worked when I had the original hard drive connected.
So whenever I connected a new hard drive to the computer and THEN booted it up again, the computer would always boot from ROM and not load the floppy first.
So I booted up the computer with the original hard drive, set the machine to boot the floppy drive first, restarted the computer with my original MS-DOS setup disk (1 of 3) in the floppy drive, waited until all loading was done (the MS-DOS installation program said "please press RETURN in order to install MS-DOS") and then WHILE the computer was running, I unplugged the original hard drive from the power and data cables and plugged those cables into the new, empty hard drive.
While I was in the middle of plugging the new one in, the screen went blank.
So I shut down the computer and turned it back on.
Now the thing doesn't start anymore.
I don't even get into the POST.
I turn it on and the screen stays black. The only things running seem to be the monitor and the computer's fan.
No hard drive (neither the original one, nor the new one) even powers up.
Did I break it completely? I know it was a stupid thing to do, but I really thought it would work. And even if not, I didn't think I'd break the computer that way...
Does anybody know anything I could do?
I'm absolutely crushed and couldn't sleep last night because of it all...
Thank you in advance for any replies!
PS: Of course, I also tried booting up the other IBM PS/1 I have, but it turns out that one doesn't boot up either. It also doesn't get to the POST.
I tried both monitors, but to no avail.