Rebuilding an old PC: 1 fault, HELP!
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Im off work sick and to occupy my time I have gathered the 5 spare PCs laying around to build one decent one.
Its all gone together quite while and is working quickly with out faults, well, almost.
There is one small error on boot up which says
"Conflict I/O ports: 2FB"
I have to then "press F1 to continue" but everything else appears to be fine.
Can anyone help me on this one?
Its all gone together quite while and is working quickly with out faults, well, almost.
There is one small error on boot up which says
"Conflict I/O ports: 2FB"
I have to then "press F1 to continue" but everything else appears to be fine.
Can anyone help me on this one?
Been in to device manager and sorted out the only 2 problems.
- removed serial mouse (was on the PC I took the hard drive from)
- floppy drive problems. Found to be a damaged lead.
Everything else I look at appears to be OK and it all runs fine, just this error message at the beginning Want to get it sorted incase it brings future problems.
Im not PC buff but know enough to get by and build my own PCs, up until now!
- removed serial mouse (was on the PC I took the hard drive from)
- floppy drive problems. Found to be a damaged lead.
Everything else I look at appears to be OK and it all runs fine, just this error message at the beginning Want to get it sorted incase it brings future problems.
Im not PC buff but know enough to get by and build my own PCs, up until now!
Podie said:
How old is it?
Sounds to me like messing with jumper settings... unless the BIOS shows any conflicts..?
How Old? which bit!
This will give you some clues! CPU = AMD300, running Win98 on a 2MB hardddrive.
Didnt see anything that looked bad in the BIOS, just gonna double check again. (its running in the other room)
DustyC said:
Go into the BIOS and disable the addressing of COM2, set everything back to AUTO.
That should sort it
BINGO!
IRQ3 (COM2) was "secondary", changed to disabled
Onboard serial port2 was "2F8", changed to Auto
fired up ok with these settings, thanks people
Plotty stealing my thunder again...
DustyC said:
How old is it?
Sounds to me like messing with jumper settings... unless the BIOS shows any conflicts..?
How Old? which bit!
This will give you some clues! CPU = AMD300, running Win98 on a 2MB hardddrive.
Didnt see anything that looked bad in the BIOS, just gonna double check again. (its running in the other room)
A 2MB harddrive!! Now that is old!
I never had an 8086.... but I did build a 286, then upgraded it to a 386, then to a 486sx, then a 486dx, then eventually bit the bullet an dbought a complete system (the Pentium 90)
Lived on 640k with the 286, 1mB with the 386... then a massive (and expensive at the time!) 4mB with the 486's
They were the good old days.... if you had any conflicts, it wasn't software "sort-outable"... it was off with the cover, and change jumpers left right and centre!
Also remember having different boot disks for different games!
Actually, maybe those days weren't so good after all!
Lived on 640k with the 286, 1mB with the 386... then a massive (and expensive at the time!) 4mB with the 486's
They were the good old days.... if you had any conflicts, it wasn't software "sort-outable"... it was off with the cover, and change jumpers left right and centre!
Also remember having different boot disks for different games!
Actually, maybe those days weren't so good after all!
[even_older_mode]
First PC, not even DOS, but CPM - HDD's not yet invented.
Second PC, IBM PC running some bizarre office system - had to share it with 3 others. Email not yet invented.
Third PC, IBM Laptop - no HDD, but twin floppies (ohh err missus), DOS - Windows still not invented.
When I was doing Computer Studies at poly (remember them ?) we had to submit our programmes to "data entry" for the typing pool to enter
[/even_older_mode]
Mike.
First PC, not even DOS, but CPM - HDD's not yet invented.
Second PC, IBM PC running some bizarre office system - had to share it with 3 others. Email not yet invented.
Third PC, IBM Laptop - no HDD, but twin floppies (ohh err missus), DOS - Windows still not invented.
When I was doing Computer Studies at poly (remember them ?) we had to submit our programmes to "data entry" for the typing pool to enter
[/even_older_mode]
Mike.
ErnestM said:
[showagemode]
Ahhh, that's all nothing - can anyone else remember actually populating the ram directly onto the motherboard. (and I mean chip by chip, non of those easy SIMM/DIMM thingies)
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ErnestM
Yes I can. I was also involved with manufacturing the 1st IBM 1G hard disk ($20K each!)
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