brown@nicmad.UUCP (11/27/85)
[here you go line eater. you got me once, you can get me again]
I just noticed that my first posting about the XT mother board changes
made it into mod.computers.ibm-pc (or whatever the correct name is).
Obviously things are pulled from net.micro.pc and bundled together and
placed in this mod group.
Anyway, my previous posting gave the final solution to my problem. It
wasn't the XT mother board (which really did change) but the hard disk
controller.
Well today, insult was added to injury. The OMTI controller board had
an old BIOS rom on it. So, the conguration jumpers had to be different.
Well that did work either. Then I decided to turn the hard drive over
and look at the spindle motor. It never did sound right. I turned on the
power and watched the motor come up to speed. Then, as soon as it hit
speed, it lost power to the motor and the spindle started slowing down.
I don't think that this pc wants to ever be put together. :-(
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