Fairlight-CMI

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From: Harald Feldmann

To: Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 9:54 AM

Subject: Re: [Fairlight-CMI] Re: Problem Booting...

Hi Kirk,

Welcome to the forum and congratulations with your working machine.
It is a good idea to keep an eye on the battery, if it leaks, the 133 card
will be damaged beyond repair. I have seen examples.

Regards,
Harald

> 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
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> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, "Kirk Keyes" 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 -
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>>
>> * 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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