hagelaars
Member
Dear forum members,
First of all, I'm very happy that I found this forum. I love vintage computers.. but it takes a lot of time to repair and maintain them.
I got a Compaq Portable 486 with a broken harddisk. It had a Conner 120 MB in it. I replaced this one with an IBM 320MB. The disk seem to work in the system, but when starting up I get the message "disk does not support block mode" run diagnostics.
There begins the problem.. I need the right diagnostic software to set-up the system in a right way. I tried a lot of SoftPaqs, but they all don't work.. some of them work, but ask for utility disks? The utility disk I downloaded will not support on the SoftPaq version and so on...
For this reason I hope to find someone who has more experience with this, and can help me further.. I almost give up trying to get this beautiful machine working again.
Thanks for reading!
Thomas.
First of all, I'm very happy that I found this forum. I love vintage computers.. but it takes a lot of time to repair and maintain them.
I got a Compaq Portable 486 with a broken harddisk. It had a Conner 120 MB in it. I replaced this one with an IBM 320MB. The disk seem to work in the system, but when starting up I get the message "disk does not support block mode" run diagnostics.
There begins the problem.. I need the right diagnostic software to set-up the system in a right way. I tried a lot of SoftPaqs, but they all don't work.. some of them work, but ask for utility disks? The utility disk I downloaded will not support on the SoftPaq version and so on...
For this reason I hope to find someone who has more experience with this, and can help me further.. I almost give up trying to get this beautiful machine working again.
Thanks for reading!
Thomas.