From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: Need help with PS/2 Model 70
Organization: CARD
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 01:47:03 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.235822.14578@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>                         
axa12@po.CWRU.Edu (Ashok Aiyar) writes:                                         
                                                                                
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>Our lab just acquired a PS/2 Model 70 (16 MHz vintage - '88).                  
>Unfortunately this computer has a flaky 1.44 meg A:\ drive                     
>that craps out about 50% of the time.                                          
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>I just installed a Math co-processor in the computer and it                    
>used the reference disk on it to update the CMOS.  After this                  
>it continued to occasionally give me errors during BOOT, specifically          
>ERROR # 162.                                                                   
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>Anyway, that problem seems to have resolved itself.  In the                    
>mean while we tried to load some of our software on the beast,                 
>but the A:\ drive (the only floppy) wouldn't work around half                  
>the way through.                                                               
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>At this point in desparation we called the campus bookstore                    
>to call a computer tech.  This guy ripped the motherboard out,                 
>and replaced it.  The floppy still didn't work, and when he                    
>put the hard-drive in he didn't plug it in quite right.                        
>Naturally the computer wouldn't boot.  He however claimed                      
>that the HD was shot, and that since the CMOS settings were                    
>set in the HD (IS THIS TRUE?), we needed a new HD as well.                     
                                                                                
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>He put the old motherboard back in again before leaving.                       
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>After he left, I put plugged the HD back in again, and everything              
>works again, with the exception that the floppy drive works                    
>about 50% of the time.                                                         
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>Could this really be a motherboard problem, or more likely is                  
>the floppy drive shot.  If it is the latter, does anyone know                  
                                                                                
Sounds like the floppy to me from your description.  Might want to give the     
latest DASDDRVR.SYS driver a try first, from 1-29-91, 3068 size.  It is some    
patch that fixes some floppy problems with some models, goes in config.sys.     
                                                                                
>where I can get a reliable (and not too expensive PS/2 floppy                  
>drive)?  Also is the computer tech.'s claim that the CMOS                      
>settings of PS/2's being stored on the HD correct or is that                   
>incorrect?  I kind of got the impression that this guy was                     
>balling us.                                                                    
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I think he was misinformed                                                      
                                                                                
                                                                                
>Ashok                                                                          
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>  Ashok A. Aiyar   Department of Biochemistry   CWRU Med. School               
>   		       axa12@po.cwru.edu                                                  
>		   aiyar@cwbio.bioc.cwru.edu                                                 
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Mike Long                                                                       
Iowa State University                                                           
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