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No, little board changes that are fixes to problems get added in the factory after the pcb is built....those are barnacles. For your...
Sep 24, 2023
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You must have a different hardware barnacle on there!
Sep 24, 2023
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Here is a picture of 1 second during boot up. A13 seems to have a periodic nature to it that fits.
Sep 23, 2023
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sounds like you have a good ram board now. you could try pulling the CMOS RAM (to reset contents). I guess the CMOS RAM is one are of...
Sep 23, 2023
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I used 27C256. (in fact on all the eproms)
Sep 23, 2023
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If you pull the memory card altogether and try to boot up, you should get an error at 0000 message. Try that, to see if at least that...
Sep 23, 2023
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In the othrr thread, i said your roms were the same except the character rom. I suggest burning a character rom and dropping it in...
Sep 23, 2023
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My machine takes maybe 10sec to complete memory trst and move on. I'm your case it is surely moving on to the world map screen. BOOT...
Sep 23, 2023
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I`ve pretty much concluded my efforts to get this T1000XE working again. I`ve made a compromise that I`m quite happy with. I was able...
Sep 22, 2023
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From recollection, no disk activity before ram test is complete and boot is selected.
Sep 21, 2023
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If you get the world map you need to press the boot key. The service guide at minus zero degrees has the error messages.
Sep 18, 2023
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Hi, Sometimes I run laplink and I get an actual error message from laplink. I don't recall the exact words, but along the lines of...
Sep 18, 2023
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Good question. I have msdos 3.3, 5.0 and 6.22. All show basically the same behavior. I boot from a floppy, then try to run laplink...
Sep 18, 2023
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the cable is known good; it works with norton commander! so, that's not it. I started to remember that Laplink does not like to run on...
Sep 17, 2023
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Hi, I have a Pentium 4 box loaded with Windows 98, to act as a tweener. The W98 box is on my home network, and I want to use it to...
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