DeathAdderSF
Experienced Member
Hello. I just acquired a Tandy 1000 SX. It powers on OK, then tries to boot but always fails. There's a hardcard in one of the ISA slots; I can hear the hard drive being accessed, and see its LED flicker on and off. But the computer simply returns a "Disk boot failure" message. So I inserted a Tandy MS-DOS 3.2 system disk (5.25") and tried to boot from it. No dice, same "Disk boot failure" message. I removed the hardcard, powered on the computer again with just the DOS system disk in the drive, same message. The MS-DOS 3.2 system disk is working, I tested it with another machine and that machine boots from it just fine.
Does anyone have some suggestions I could try, please? I'd like to get this machine working so I can have some fun with it.
Thanks in advance.
Does anyone have some suggestions I could try, please? I'd like to get this machine working so I can have some fun with it.
Thanks in advance.