I've recently dug out my first ever PC, an 'interTan DT-286'
will post up some photos at some point, but for now I'm having a few problems.
Before I stopped using it many moons ago, the 40MB ide hard disk had packed in.. but i still used to use it with the 1.44mb 3.5" floppy drive.
well I've tried to boot it up and the floppy drive doesn't seem to be reading and won't load dos. so I guess I need a new FDD and some clean disks.
I'd also like to get a HDD working in the system again, any idea what the maximum size hard disk would be for this 286? I'm attempting to use an old 545 MB seagate IDE drive but not having much luck. Even tho the bios/setup seems to let me specify the drive parameters it still doesn't seem to want to work. But i know the HDD is good because i tested it on my proper PC and even installed dos 6.22 on to it hoping the 286 would just boot from it as soon as i connected it to it. But no luck it seems
A bit more info:
its VGA 256 colour
its an AMD 286/s (12.5mhz)
i've just installed about 4 MB's ram
and i've just bought an 287 AMD math co-processor for it. but haven't fitted it yet.
The system excepts ISA cards, and I used to have a stereo sound card for it till i broke it. So I also wouldn't mind getting another sound card for it. Will any 'ISA' Sound blaster compatible sound card work in this system? I seem to remember the one i had said on the box it needed 386 or higher, but it seemed to work fine it was a 'Sonic sound 16' or something? if i remember correctly??? not sure. it was a few years newer than computer anyway.
Any help/advice you can give on getting this thing loading dos again and up and running wing commander 1 & 2 again would be fantastic.
need to work out what i'm doing wrong with the hard disk really.. Perhaps its just too big?
I've been looking at these DOM things, and was wondering if anything like that would work on this computer? & I've seen a 512MB one for sale that i'm interested in.
Sorry for the long first post... but hopefully someone can help me get this running again.
I'll get some pictures up too! :D
will post up some photos at some point, but for now I'm having a few problems.
Before I stopped using it many moons ago, the 40MB ide hard disk had packed in.. but i still used to use it with the 1.44mb 3.5" floppy drive.
well I've tried to boot it up and the floppy drive doesn't seem to be reading and won't load dos. so I guess I need a new FDD and some clean disks.
I'd also like to get a HDD working in the system again, any idea what the maximum size hard disk would be for this 286? I'm attempting to use an old 545 MB seagate IDE drive but not having much luck. Even tho the bios/setup seems to let me specify the drive parameters it still doesn't seem to want to work. But i know the HDD is good because i tested it on my proper PC and even installed dos 6.22 on to it hoping the 286 would just boot from it as soon as i connected it to it. But no luck it seems
A bit more info:
its VGA 256 colour
its an AMD 286/s (12.5mhz)
i've just installed about 4 MB's ram
and i've just bought an 287 AMD math co-processor for it. but haven't fitted it yet.
The system excepts ISA cards, and I used to have a stereo sound card for it till i broke it. So I also wouldn't mind getting another sound card for it. Will any 'ISA' Sound blaster compatible sound card work in this system? I seem to remember the one i had said on the box it needed 386 or higher, but it seemed to work fine it was a 'Sonic sound 16' or something? if i remember correctly??? not sure. it was a few years newer than computer anyway.
Any help/advice you can give on getting this thing loading dos again and up and running wing commander 1 & 2 again would be fantastic.
need to work out what i'm doing wrong with the hard disk really.. Perhaps its just too big?
I've been looking at these DOM things, and was wondering if anything like that would work on this computer? & I've seen a 512MB one for sale that i'm interested in.
Sorry for the long first post... but hopefully someone can help me get this running again.
I'll get some pictures up too! :D