Recent content by Blastoid

Ah, thank you. I grabbed 8.5 and no dice (the disc worked on the iBook). It could be partially the IDE drive in there but I'd assume it would boot to a CD or target disk but neither seem to work (the CD sounds like it is reading). Sadly I do not have a PATA laptop cd drive to swap in. Getting...

I think I'm going to have to get a USB Mac keyboard to rule out incompatibility. I was able to get the pram clearing cycle to happen with this keyboard but maybe C and/or T at post is not working?

I can likely grab and burn an ISO of one. The 9.2.1 works on my G3 laptop so I thought it might boot the iMac. I'm grabbing 8.5 now and will try that in a few. Should T work on the iMac? It works on the G3 Macbook to get into target disk mode but the iMac does nothing .

I grabbed a G3 iMac M4984 that posts but goes to a ?/Finder icon, I assumed the HD was shot. Taking it apart the battery is the original and has leaked just on its end but the board seems clean. I replaced it with a 3.6v, put in a HD, and put it back together. It does not boot to the CD of...

I made it the first time on Saturday, to be honest I went mainly for the consignment and I came home happy! Nabbed a Mac SE 1MB/SC20 drive for $79 (thanks to the seller if you are watching!), clean, boots, and came with a Apple 3.5 disk. Sadly I was dealing with a pounding headache while in...

@jhmcnally if the shipping does not work out please let me know as I am quite local and will take the lot while donating $20 plus some canned items to the local bank to me (New Milford).

Found someone selling a set of Quadtel programmed chips on eBay and it worked out quite well! $27 shipped and I now have a menu based bios on my 5170. Closing this out.

Thanks for the reply. I have checked out minuszerodegrees.net (which is a ton of great info) but hit a few road blocks getting the IBM BIOS reconfigured (it shows 640k but the add on board has around 2mb). Long story short I did not have a way to write to a 5.25" drive to use the IBM disk, that...

Hi- I'm looking for an upgraded BIOS chip for my stock 5170. I have not touched a 286 since the mid 90s am a bit rusty to say the least. The IBM BIOS has been a challenge to get some things done, so I figured this was the path of least resistance. It's a Type 3 board with a stock BIOS, I...

That worked on the first try :biggrin:, had an old MS USB keyboard which worked perfectly! Luckily I found a new Logitech serial mouse a couple of years ago that I put aside so I am good to go. Thanks for all of the replies! I have a few other things to ask but I will open a new thread once I...

Perfect, thank you as that's exactly what I was looking for!

I have no AT keyboard so I've been using a PS/2keyboard (with a ps/2 to AT adapter) that is compact and not ideal to say the least but has worked so far without issue. Plenty of USB keyboards to use... Before I plug this in I wanted to ask here if I can use a USB keyboard on my IBM 5170...