I recently purchased an IBM 5150 off ebay. It was the first PC I ever owned. My grandfather bought it for me in 86 or 87. It was the catalyst that lead me down the path to being where I am now, a network administrator. Enough nostalgia though!
It arrived fine last Friday, packed well. I plugged everything in, powered it up, and it booted to DOS on the c drive. It took a while to get to a prompt though - a cursor came on the screen and flashed for quite a long time, longer than I remember it took 30 years ago... anyways I popped in one of the 5.25 disks it came with and was able to browse the files on it. I felt really good about it. I didn't have time left in the day to check it out more so turned it off and left it for the weekend.
This morning I powered it up and the screen went white. I never received the usual long beep and two short beeps. So I turn it off for a few seconds, turn it back on and I get the beeps. Screen turns normal and I get a flashing cursor. Eventually I get this screen but it locks up there and won't go past it, just a flashing cursor:
I try a few different disks instead but now it won't go past this screen, and I get what appear to be error codes?
I remove everything except the EGA card and power it up. BASIC loads up just fine.
I plug in just the floppy controller and plug up a 5.25 drive, same error as before. Locks up at the DTK screen.
I remove the floppy controller and plug in the hard drive controller and connect the drive but it's just this error message:
Can anyone help me with this? Kind of bummed right now... :/
Thanks
It arrived fine last Friday, packed well. I plugged everything in, powered it up, and it booted to DOS on the c drive. It took a while to get to a prompt though - a cursor came on the screen and flashed for quite a long time, longer than I remember it took 30 years ago... anyways I popped in one of the 5.25 disks it came with and was able to browse the files on it. I felt really good about it. I didn't have time left in the day to check it out more so turned it off and left it for the weekend.
This morning I powered it up and the screen went white. I never received the usual long beep and two short beeps. So I turn it off for a few seconds, turn it back on and I get the beeps. Screen turns normal and I get a flashing cursor. Eventually I get this screen but it locks up there and won't go past it, just a flashing cursor:
I try a few different disks instead but now it won't go past this screen, and I get what appear to be error codes?
I remove everything except the EGA card and power it up. BASIC loads up just fine.
I plug in just the floppy controller and plug up a 5.25 drive, same error as before. Locks up at the DTK screen.
I remove the floppy controller and plug in the hard drive controller and connect the drive but it's just this error message:
Can anyone help me with this? Kind of bummed right now... :/
Thanks