Recent content by lcdrugo

Bad News! I've done some research here which seems to indicate the problem might be due to a defective chipset. If that's true then I think I'm just going to shelve this project and call it a loss. That's more work troubleshooting and fixing than I'm prepared to do.

Thanks for getting back to me. My replacement battery arrived today so I took the opportunity to give it another try using some of the techniques you suggested, (changing drives, changing cables, etc.) Nothing worked. Then I had an idea - what if the on-board floppy controller is at fault? That...

Welp, I think I'm done. The Powermate setup disk refuses to recognize the XT-CF when they're both in the 386. And along the way my 5.25" drive ate a disk. I think that's a sign that I should put this aside for a while.

Thank you. Yes, I've looked through that archive. It contains the correct setup program for my model but I still need to boot into DOS somehow in order to run it. I'm going to try modem7's suggestion today and see if it works.

Modem7, thanks very much for your responses. Regarding the battery, I suspect you're right and I do plan to re-test once it arrives. The XT-CF card adapter I'm using is the Blue Lava Systems XT-CF rev 1.2. I've tested it in my 386 and it works fine. However, I'm currently using a no-name CF...

Hello Friends, I'm at my wits end here and I could really use some guidance. I just recently bought a NEC Powermate 286 from Ebay and I can't seem to get it to boot from any kind of media. Here is the background: BIOS chips say V 3.10.02 The machine came with a 1.44 Mb 3.5" drive. I tested it...

Sir, maybe you can help me. I recently bought a PowerMate 286 from Ebay and I simply cannot get it to boot from anything at all. I've tried just about every NEC disk image from WinWorld, VOGONS, and archive.org on both 5.25" and 3.5" floppies with no success. The drives and disks themselves are...