reeves@dvinci (Malcolm Reeves) (08/16/90)
I've recently experienced similar problems with 2 PC's a genuine IBM-XT and a AT&T PC6300. The problem is that on cold or warm boot the floppy drive is not recognized. On the IBM-PC I get dumped in BASIC and on the PC-6300+, the hard-drive booted (even though a system disk was present in drive a:). The PC-6300+ returned to normal operation - don't know how or why but I could always use the floppy after booting on c:. The IBM-PC is currently unuseable (except for all those ROM BASIC applications) So far I have: 1. removed all add-on cards and replaced them one-by-one. 2. switched disk controllers (they all work on every other PC) 3. switched disk drives (no problem on any other CPU) 4. tried every permutation and combination of moherboard switches. I don't know what else to try (chainsaw maybe?) Has anyone experienced this or a similar problem. The machine (IBM) is 8 years old so it could be senility? Any advice would be much appreciated.