RetroSpector78
Experienced Member
I have an IBM 5170 containing a 5.25 1.2mb floppy drive and a 3.5 inch 1.44mb floppy drive.
When I picked it up it only had the 5.25 1.2mb floppy drive attached to the controller card and was able to boot from it (ms-dos boot floppy).
When I got it home it was still able to boot (even with the battery detached for 3+ hours). So I'm guessing there is some kind of "default" setting to allow it to run with a single 5.25 1.2mb floppy.
I then used gsetup.exe to setup the 1.44mb floppy drive. However, now it always boots into BASIC. I can hear both disk drives initialising at boot (first the 1.44mb and then the 1.2mb), but none accept a boot disk and it goes into BASIC.
What are the "default" bios settings of the IBM 5170 and is there a way to force it to go into default again ?
I left it sitting overnight without battery and assumed it would be able to boot from floppy again if I only attached the 1.2mb but it didn't boot. I hear the disk initialising but it always goes into BASIC.
When I picked it up it only had the 5.25 1.2mb floppy drive attached to the controller card and was able to boot from it (ms-dos boot floppy).
When I got it home it was still able to boot (even with the battery detached for 3+ hours). So I'm guessing there is some kind of "default" setting to allow it to run with a single 5.25 1.2mb floppy.
I then used gsetup.exe to setup the 1.44mb floppy drive. However, now it always boots into BASIC. I can hear both disk drives initialising at boot (first the 1.44mb and then the 1.2mb), but none accept a boot disk and it goes into BASIC.
What are the "default" bios settings of the IBM 5170 and is there a way to force it to go into default again ?
I left it sitting overnight without battery and assumed it would be able to boot from floppy again if I only attached the 1.2mb but it didn't boot. I hear the disk initialising but it always goes into BASIC.