[QuadList] OT - ACE 25 booting

[Scott Thomas]

I didn't realize you had so many of the things. :) Yeah, if they ALL act the same... Then again, if there are any dissimilar metal connections anywhere, that could be a problem. I've dealt with Gold on Tin connections that corrode over time. Something to consider.

There's probably some button that needs to be pressed that will force the BIOS and boot-up displays at startup. If that doesn't exist, then there would, again, probably be a jumper somewhere. How could a tech ever diagnose a problem? Even on Mac systems, there are keys that can be pressed to see the full boot-up. (I think it's something like (Command-V). V is for Verbose)

Just a thought. Anyway, I'm curious how it goes. Could be worse, you could still have the CMX Edge. :)

Scott Thomas

On Aug 23, 2011, at 11:08 AM, C. Park Seward wrote:

> H Gary,
> 
> Yes, good stuff from Scott and Don.
> 
> One of the three systems has a hard drive. I can hear it spin up and the head reads. After it hits on the hard drive, it then goes to the A and B floppies. And then nothing.
> 
> I do have a V6.2 DOS disk than can boot the ACE. But we have to get it to load the data from the disk.
> 
> Best,
> Park
> 
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> On Aug 23, 2011, at 6:46 AM, Gary Adams wrote:
> 
>> Good info from Scott.  Sorry as I don’t know the hardware.  Does this have a hard drive or does it just boot and run from the floppy?  I have some 3.5” DOS boot disks for the TLC.  I always keep DOS machines running.  Even have a laptop that will boot from a disk.  If you want a copy, I can send one.  Probably a reset of the BIOS will help. 
>>  
>> Gary

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