Dead Endeavour: Except for Frantic Floppy Seeks! HELP!!

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#2267

Author: David Longley
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 00:00

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A couple of months ago, I removed my P133 from my socket 7 Endeavour board
and sold the CPU. I decided to wait for the P166 to come down in price.
About 5 weeks ago, I needed something off one of the Panasonic PD optical
disks, so rather than removing the drive completely, I powered it the system
up and ran the ribbon cable to the PD system from the other machine I was
using.

Today, I've put a P100 back into the Endeavour and when powered up I get 
nothing on the screen, and just one beep round about the time one would
expect it to finish the POST.

The CPU checks out ok on another EV board with all the RAM etc moved over,
so the problem is down to the board.

The only thing that is odd is that it does try to access the floppy, and
after the first seek it goes into a frantic sek mode,

Can someone suggest (helpfully) what may be wrong, and what I can do about
it? Has the flash ROM become corrupt or something?
-- 
David Longley

Re: Dead Endeavour: Except for Frantic Floppy Seeks! HELP!!

#2266

Author: David Longley
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article <829876049snz@longley.demon.co.uk>
           David@longley.demon.co.uk "David Longley" writes:

<snip>> 
> Today, I've put a P100 back into the Endeavour and when powered up I get 
> nothing on the screen, and just one beep round about the time one would
> expect it to finish the POST.
> 
> The CPU checks out ok on another EV board with all the RAM etc moved over,
> so the problem is down to the board.
> 
> The only thing that is odd is that it does try to access the floppy, and
> after the first seek it goes into a frantic sek mode,
> 
> Can someone suggest (helpfully) what may be wrong, and what I can do about
> it? Has the flash ROM become corrupt or something?
> -- 
> David Longley
> 

Problem solved - the jumper on J1N1 had falen off.......:-).....
-- 
David Longley

Re: Dead Endeavour: Except for Frantic Floppy Seeks! HELP!!

#2268

Author: Bob Smith
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 00:00

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David Longley <David@longley.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>A couple of months ago, I removed my P133 from my socket 7 Endeavour board
>and sold the CPU. I decided to wait for the P166 to come down in price.
>About 5 weeks ago, I needed something off one of the Panasonic PD optical
>disks, so rather than removing the drive completely, I powered it the system
>up and ran the ribbon cable to the PD system from the other machine I was
>using.

>Today, I've put a P100 back into the Endeavour and when powered up I get 
>nothing on the screen, and just one beep round about the time one would
>expect it to finish the POST.

>The CPU checks out ok on another EV board with all the RAM etc moved over,
>so the problem is down to the board.

>The only thing that is odd is that it does try to access the floppy, and
>after the first seek it goes into a frantic sek mode,

>Can someone suggest (helpfully) what may be wrong, and what I can do about
>it? Has the flash ROM become corrupt or something?
>-- 
>David Longley

Maybe your flash bios is screwed up.

When the bios gets screwed up, you can set a jumper and the system
will restore the bios off of a floppy when it is booted.  It sounds
like this is what it is trying to do.  

Look in your manual for the location of this jumper and see if you
have it set right.

Just a guess.

Bob

rfs@dsc.com

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