stangman517
Experienced Member
Greetings all.
New to this site, and I do not know my way around. Took me 20 mins to figure out how to post, and I hope I'm not posting in the wrong place or opening a forum already open with this subject. If so I humbly apologize. Within time I will get with the program.
Here's my question. Just obtained a 5150 with the Everex board with six banks populated. I understand each bank is 64K totally 384K. When I first received it the HDD ST-225 didn't boot. I used an old DOS pgm. from Microprose that actually let me low-level format it; then booted again with MS-DOS 3.3, fdisk'd it, and then formatted it. Booted fine; I was so proud. But on next reboot I kept getting 4055 201. You 5150 vets know right away what this is. I knew 201 was memory, and it took me a while to understand the 4055 and how to decipher it. Originally I thought it was a problem with the memory on the motherboard, but before the last boot MicoProse said all RAM was good on the motherboard, and I believe the Everex board(not certain on the board though). I found the 5150 Technical on how to set the MB up for 256KB and that's a-ok, but I couldn't quite decipher the guide on what the SW1 and SW2 should be when using this Everex board, nor was I sure of the settings on the Everex board; I couldn't find any docs on the Everex at this time.
Does anyone know why the board first worked when I first received the board then after formatting the ST-225 it I then started getting the 4055 201?? I have SW1 and SW2 set for 256KB on the MB and the system boots fine with the card in it but I cannot figure out what the switches should be set to for the 5150 to see the extenders RAM. Any help would be very much appreciated!
Thanks!
P.S. Always wanted a 5150 when I was younger but was wayyy out of my range then!
New to this site, and I do not know my way around. Took me 20 mins to figure out how to post, and I hope I'm not posting in the wrong place or opening a forum already open with this subject. If so I humbly apologize. Within time I will get with the program.
Here's my question. Just obtained a 5150 with the Everex board with six banks populated. I understand each bank is 64K totally 384K. When I first received it the HDD ST-225 didn't boot. I used an old DOS pgm. from Microprose that actually let me low-level format it; then booted again with MS-DOS 3.3, fdisk'd it, and then formatted it. Booted fine; I was so proud. But on next reboot I kept getting 4055 201. You 5150 vets know right away what this is. I knew 201 was memory, and it took me a while to understand the 4055 and how to decipher it. Originally I thought it was a problem with the memory on the motherboard, but before the last boot MicoProse said all RAM was good on the motherboard, and I believe the Everex board(not certain on the board though). I found the 5150 Technical on how to set the MB up for 256KB and that's a-ok, but I couldn't quite decipher the guide on what the SW1 and SW2 should be when using this Everex board, nor was I sure of the settings on the Everex board; I couldn't find any docs on the Everex at this time.
Does anyone know why the board first worked when I first received the board then after formatting the ST-225 it I then started getting the 4055 201?? I have SW1 and SW2 set for 256KB on the MB and the system boots fine with the card in it but I cannot figure out what the switches should be set to for the 5150 to see the extenders RAM. Any help would be very much appreciated!
Thanks!
P.S. Always wanted a 5150 when I was younger but was wayyy out of my range then!