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Re: Problem Booting...

2012-03-07 by Kirk Keyes

OK - I figured out the problem. I had the floppy controller card in Slot 20. When I moved it to Slot 19, it accessed the floppy drives and continued on to boot up to Page 1.

Thanks to all that helped!

Kirk



--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Kirk Keyes" <Kirk@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings, all -
> 
> I just bought a IIx and it's now having a problem booting. It was working fine, and then I pulled some of the cards to check thier conditions and to check the battery, and now it will not load from either floppy drive. 
> 
> It does boot up from the ROM, and it get to where it shows this on the display -
> 
> 
> * READY *
> :
> 
> 
> When it gets to this point, I assume it's supposed to load from the floppy disks, but it doesn't. 
> 
> The video works, the alphanumeric keyboard works, and the keypad on the keyboard works...
> 
> What should I check next?
> THanks - 
> Kirk
> 
> PS - this is my first post.
>

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