wmmullaney
Veteran Member
I just recently bought a couple VGA cards for my 286-12 and 386 computers from a recent haul. I'v never really worked on anything past a 486, so this is all new to me.
Anyway, I put a card in the 286. It came right up, 640kb base 384kb extended memory OK, both interrupt controllers pass. Then it gives a MEMORY SIZE ERROR, RUN SETUP and a DISKETTE DRIVE MISMATCH. PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE OR CTL+ALT+DLT FOR SETUP
Setup gives very few options, has drive numbers for the mfm drive, and sizes for the floppies. I put a 3.5" drive in it and configured it as drive 1, 1.4mb. It spun on startup but gave to same error. F1 gives a replace boot media, press enter error, but the drive is unresponsive.. Tried that with 2 different controllers. I don't have a 5.25" dos disk atm, so I wouldn't know if that drive would work. Any ideas/suggestion?
It's a SAMSUNG S550
Thanks!
Anyway, I put a card in the 286. It came right up, 640kb base 384kb extended memory OK, both interrupt controllers pass. Then it gives a MEMORY SIZE ERROR, RUN SETUP and a DISKETTE DRIVE MISMATCH. PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE OR CTL+ALT+DLT FOR SETUP
Setup gives very few options, has drive numbers for the mfm drive, and sizes for the floppies. I put a 3.5" drive in it and configured it as drive 1, 1.4mb. It spun on startup but gave to same error. F1 gives a replace boot media, press enter error, but the drive is unresponsive.. Tried that with 2 different controllers. I don't have a 5.25" dos disk atm, so I wouldn't know if that drive would work. Any ideas/suggestion?
It's a SAMSUNG S550
Thanks!