dreddnott
Experienced Member
I'm having trouble with a very old IBM Personal Computer...
When I flip it on, I get a long beep and two short beeps, then it'll either boot into the BASIC ROM (V1.00!) or halt with the error "F800 ROM".
When I turned this system on for the first time in a few days, it booted into BASIC, but after running for a while I got some gobbledy-gook all over part of my screen and it froze like that. Power-cycling just gave me the F800 ROM error again.
I think the problem might be DIP switch-related, because I did change the settings when I took the two third-party memory expansions out...I'm pretty sure I got the settings right but I could be wrong!
Does anybody know the origin of this error, likely causes or solutions?
When I flip it on, I get a long beep and two short beeps, then it'll either boot into the BASIC ROM (V1.00!) or halt with the error "F800 ROM".
When I turned this system on for the first time in a few days, it booted into BASIC, but after running for a while I got some gobbledy-gook all over part of my screen and it froze like that. Power-cycling just gave me the F800 ROM error again.
I think the problem might be DIP switch-related, because I did change the settings when I took the two third-party memory expansions out...I'm pretty sure I got the settings right but I could be wrong!
Does anybody know the origin of this error, likely causes or solutions?