PS/2 Model 80-041 Boot problem

[USSEnterprise]

I got this machine as part of an eBay auction. It cost me a total of $.15 plus the 5 miles to pick it up. I'd been trying to get it running for for a few weeks, but gave up. After getting the Compaq II and Model 25 running, I'm finally returning to this. I start it up, and I get the 161 and 163 errors. At that point, I figured it was a matter of changing the battery and running the reference. Thanks to Radioshack, I got a new battery and threw it in. I made a fresh reference disk on a w98 PC in MSDOS mode.
1. Popped it in and turned it on. Still got the same errors. Floppy light turned on and off.
2. I let is sit for over ten minutes.
3. I hit F1.
4. It asks me for a system disk.
5. I hit F1 again with the reference disk in drive.
6. It takes me to IBM BASIC.

Is it my drive, the diskette controller chip, the floppy disk itself?

 

[Micom 2000]

Sounds like the FDD isn't able to read the disk and the computer goes to the Basic default in the absence of a disk drive. Try cleaning the heads and if that doesn't work install another FDD. As I mentioned to you in my PM I do have working IBM FDDs. I'm a veritable fountain source of PS/2 stuff for that matter.

Lawrence