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Looks like disk 4 from the set on vetusware has the drivers-- https://vetusware.com/download/Headstart%20LX%20CD%20Disc%201%20AND%20SOftware%20CD%20Disc%204%20Headstart%20Software%20Part%20no._%206047190-01%20NL/?id=17044 bash-5.1$ ls 3D ATI CDGUIDE.BAT COMMAND.COM DOS...

Long thread with lots of info, including getting the xtide to work: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/headstart-lx-cd.48301/

Back in the day, I always used an isa slot cover to pull chips. Always had one at hand, and the right angle bit makes it easy to get in cramped spots. A 5150 (PC orXT) keyboard is going to be incompatible with anything 286 (AT) or newer.

Misread the jumpers on the first pic. Looks like they're good. Page 7 of the manual (9 of the PDF), JP11 should be set to 5-6, JP12 to 2-3. Later socket 7 cpus jumped all over the place on voltage.

Speaker looks to be wired correctly. If you don't have it, here's the manual-- https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/jetway-j-656vxd#downloads Looks like the voltage selects are set to 3.45 core and 3.52 i/o. Can you get a pic of the CPU without the heatsink?

PC speaker is almost always the outer 2 pins of a 4 pin connector. Polarity shouldn't matter. POST card should give more information, but beep codes would really help. Should be ok-ish for testing, but I'd get a bigger fan for that heatsink. Cyrix tended to run hot.

Have you tried this drive on any other system? I'm wondering if maybe it has a bad head. On one of the screenshots it shows "Installing a 190 megabyte system". Maybe the installer is setup to do a different type of install depending on the available space? A '190 megabyte system' being a full...

Ahh, found it. The drive parameters are stored in /etc/disktab (on 4.2 BSD at least). https://man.openbsd.org/disktab.5 and an example-- http://ftp.jp.freebsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-9/src/share/examples/disktab/disktab But it's been forever and a day since I've added a drive to one.

Arrrgh... I _always_ get those backwards. I wonder if it actually uses that for anything. Those screenshots trigger memories of setting up (BSD?) disklabels once upon a time, and If I remember correctly, they're more for documenting the configuration. Same with the "Maker....Maxtor " field. I'd...

The earlier ST412 standard had an 8 head limit. ST506 allowed 16 heads by changing the write-precomp line into another head select. I think the earlier WD1010 only allowed 1024 cylinders, while the 2010 allowed 2048. But you are also limited by what the software will support. On the Tandy 6000...

If you don't have an external Toshiba floppy drive plugged into the computer's female DB25 connector the switch should be in the 'PRT' position. If it is set to 'A', the internal drive becomes B:, and unbootable.

The switch changes the parallel port to be Printer/Floppy A:/Floppy B:. Also switches the internal drive from A: to B:.

Ran across this over the weekend. Not what you would assume from reading the url. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/humming-vibrator-in-57-level-pacifica-just-about-sent-25-residents-insane/ENGYVLNJDNAXPJBHMQB4E52LDE/

The io card is a 2 serial, 1 parallel, clock, game port, and floppy adapter, cheaped out by leaving off one of the UARTS and pair of line driver chips. My guess is the 8 bit dip switch has: 2 switches for serial A port address, 1 switch for serial A irq 3/4. 2 switches for serial B port address...

Chicago Faucet? https://www.chicagofaucets.com Commercial grade, not cheap but not insane, $300 - $500 range.

This guy's got a ton of info, including schematics and technical references-- https://www.jaapsch.net/psion/index.htm

Looks like a Psion 2-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Organiser

If you zoom in on the pic of the hard drive, it looks like the pin got pushed in instead of broken off. You can see the pyramid shape of the end. Might be able to take the board off and push it back into place. Other than that, it looks like a typical ide drive, seagate maybe? Likely candiate...

I see Rifas! The one halfway down on the right side and the one by the fuse look ok at the moment, but the one by the heatsink looks like it's cracking. Probably not the issue, but I'd replace all the Rifas before they do their thing. And it looks like maybe capacitor goo from the bottom of C18...