Arcade Collecting > Merit/JVL Touchscreen
Megatouch XL CD-ROM to Hard Drive
mahkeymike:
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--- 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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JP1 must be removed i believe.
DaddyLongLegs:
--- Quote from: mahkeymike on August 01, 2016, 09:50:25 am ---
--- Quote from: DaddyLongLegs on August 01, 2016, 08:02:16 am ---
--- 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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JP1 must be removed i believe.
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If that's the one right next to the NVRAM, yeah I did that. If I leave it in I get "Not ready error reading drive A" which is why I want to bypass everything and just boot from the hard drive. If I pull that jumper out, I get the errors mentioned before.
obcd:
So, in bios you can set both floppy drives to none?
You can set the boot order as C first, A afterwards?
With the jumper installed, what error do you get?
Without the jumper and a harddisk (limited to 2 GB), what behavour do you get?
Sorry to ask again, but with 2 threads going, it's confusing.
DaddyLongLegs:
--- Quote from: obcd on August 01, 2016, 03:36:24 pm ---So, in bios you can set both floppy drives to none?
You can set the boot order as C first, A afterwards?
With the jumper installed, what error do you get?
Without the jumper and a harddisk (limited to 2 GB), what behavour do you get?
Sorry to ask again, but with 2 threads going, it's confusing.
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Don't apologize, you have no idea how much I appreciate you replying to me.
I can set the floppy drive to none and swap the boot order between A and C easily. There is no difference between any of those options though. I get the same errors regardless.
With the jumper I get the error of "Not ready error reading drive A". Without the jumper I get to the part where it gives me the PCI device listing and it stalls there forever (right before it should say "Datalight Paged Memory Disk Installed to C: / Starting ROM DOS"
DaddyLongLegs:
--- Quote from: orizzle on July 30, 2016, 08:49:46 am ---Yeah, I'll PM you a link to my hard drive image. Download and extract it (important - do not leave it as a zip file).
You'll need to get a program called USB Image Tool: http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/download
When you run it, go into the Options tab and tick "Show non-removable devices (USB hard disk drives)" and then you should see your external drive. Click it in the left pane. Click "Restore" and open the image file (should be a .img file since you extracted the .zip) and let it write to the drive.
When it's done writing, you should see 4 more drive letters appear in "My Computer" or Windows Explorer. Find the drive with all my XL 5000 files on it and delete them all. Then copy the contents of your CD to the root of this drive. If all goes well, you should be able to boot from the drive.
There are some jumpers on the ioboard that you might have to play with. There are 2 jumpers on mine side-by-side. One is labeled NVRAM and I can't honestly recall what the other one is. But I believe my jumper on the NVRAM part is on, and the one beside it is off. Pulling the jumper off the other one will prevent the machine from trying to boot to the ROM-DOS image that's on the flash memory.
Good luck
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OK so I got my compact flash card and now for some reason your guide doesn't work for it.
I followed the exact same steps as I did for the hard drive. The only difference is now it's a Compact Flash card. When I am done restoring the image, only one hard drive letter shows up. It has the MS-DOS files in it and is around 50MB. There are no other drive letters and no way to access the partition/drive that has your Megatouch folder in it. Do you know why this could be? :(
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