Arcade Collecting > Merit/JVL Touchscreen
Megatouch XL CD-ROM to Hard Drive
DaddyLongLegs:
--- Quote from: orizzle on July 30, 2016, 06:07:54 pm ---Do you see messages like starting MS-DOS? The image I sent you was only 1gb...I think even with the old ass bios on those motherboards, it should boot because it doesn't need the rest of the space. I looked at the ISO you sent me. There is no megacdll.exe in the root like on my CD. I'm guessing the startup sequence is different.
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I do not see anything about starting MS-DOS. It starts rebooting endlessly as soon as the machine turns on. It barely gets to the part where it lists the devices.
You got me thinking though and I saw this on my disc inside LAUNCHIT.BAT
:runit
d:
f:\delall
copy f:\exec\megacdll.exe d:\
copy f:\thefiles.dat d:\
megacdll
if not exist d:\escape f:\reboot.exe
Could this be my problem?
orizzle:
You should at least see the startup messages like it's booting into DOS. Are you sure the hard drive is being detected?
mahkeymike:
There is jumpers on the IOboard you need change so it boots from hard drive instead of CD.
obcd:
Have you tried cleaning the finger contacts on the IO board?
They are known for bad contacts. As the sound chip is also on that io board, it could explain those issues as well.
I don't think the mobo will recognise a 250GB harddrive. Basically, if you are able to go into bios setup, you could see if the harddrive is recognised.
My PM might not be to the point, as I only noticed these forum topics afterwards.
You should be able to set floppy drive A to none in the bios setup. I don't think it will make a difference.
DaddyLongLegs:
--- Quote from: orizzle on July 30, 2016, 10:27:53 pm ---You should at least see the startup messages like it's booting into DOS. Are you sure the hard drive is being detected?
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If I do not plug in the hard drive, it says it's booting into "ROM-DOS". If I *do* plug in the hard drive, if I set the jumpers on the hard drive to limit the drive to 2GB, it goes through the motions but freezes right before it should say "Datalight Pages Memory Disk Installed as Drive C:". The BIOS will in fact show the hard drive name just fine.
If I plug in the hard drive and just set the jumpers to "slave" or "master" the machine just keeps rebooting like crazy within 2 seconds of powering on.
In both scenarios, the speakers make awful noises that are not there when there is no power going to the hard drive. I powered the hard drive on a different power supply and it still refused to boot, but the awful sound from the speakers went away.
--- Quote from: orizzle on July 30, 2016, 10:27:53 pm ---You should at least see the startup messages like it's booting into DOS. Are you sure the hard drive is being detected?
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The BIOS does show the hard drive while booting if I have the jumpers on the hard drive set to limit the hard drive to 2GB. If I do not have the jumpers set that way, the machine won't even boot with the hard drive in.
--- Quote from: obcd on July 31, 2016, 06:31:29 am ---Have you tried cleaning the finger contacts on the IO board?
They are known for bad contacts. As the sound chip is also on that io board, it could explain those issues as well.
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I did clean the contacts. It is funny you mention that because before cleaning the contacts, I would get a "PLEASE INSERT BOOT DISC" error like 80% of the time. Now that it's cleaned, I get this error instead.
I actually completely got rid of the "riser" board and I just plug both boards into each other directly. This is the full upright Megatouch, and I can put the machine back together with no riser board, so I am not even sure why they included it with this model.
--- Quote from: mahkeymike on July 30, 2016, 11:17:19 pm ---There is jumpers on the IOboard you need change so it boots from hard drive instead of CD.
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Which one?
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