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"Not ready error reading drive A" on Megatouch XL (upgraded to Gold). Pics!

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DaddyLongLegs:
Hello! I had a Megatouch XL that was converted to Gold sitting in a garage for quite a while. It was there since we moved to the new house. It worked fine in my old house, so maybe something got knocked loose by the movers, I am not sure. Anyway last week I tried to turn it on and received the following error:



Now I do admit that I replaced the CMOS battery because I was worried the old one would leak. I am not sure if it contributed to this error message. I have tried everything. Plugging the CD-ROM into both IDE ports on the motherboard. I tested the CD-ROM drive in an old desktop and it read the disc fine so it's not that. I tried a different IDE cable. I pulled out the boot PROM and cleaned the contacts on the pins and in the socket itself, no difference. I also cleaned the sockets and board of the riser board that "lifts" the 2nd board. I messed with all the settings I could think of in the BIOS, especially the one that said "swap A: with C:" but that did nothing. Sadly, the Merit PDF only gives BIOS settings for the DeAmertek version of the motherboard. I have the Telco version of the motherboard, and the manual says "*The CMOS setup only applies to games using the DeAmertek motherboard. Games using Telco motherboards will not need to have the CMOS set manually." And then they give you none of the Telco CMOS settings.  :-\

I have a feeling this might be  a simple BIOS setting causing this but I reset everything to default and that didn't work. And I looked for anything that said "boot order" or whatever and I see no way to tell it to not look for the A:. Why is this thing looking for an A: anyway?

Anyway here is a picture of my motherboard if it helps. Thank you to anyone who can help me get this magnificent machine working again.

yotsuya:
Try going into the bios and disabling the floppy drive.

DaddyLongLegs:

--- Quote from: yotsuya on July 28, 2016, 11:20:02 am ---Try going into the bios and disabling the floppy drive.

--- End quote ---

There isn't really an option for it, believe it or not. It's a really old looking BIOS where there aren't many obvious options. In fact there is a Youtube video I just watched of a guy with a working Megatocuh XL and he has the floppy drive enabled and his works fine:



His boots right after that just fine.  ???

yotsuya:
Can you change your boot order to do the floppy last? I have a Megatouch and don't have that issue.

DaddyLongLegs:

--- Quote from: yotsuya on July 28, 2016, 01:00:32 pm ---Can you change your boot order to do the floppy last? I have a Megatouch and don't have that issue.

--- End quote ---

Nope. Here's all the options in the BIOS:










Unless I am missing something obvious. Not to mention all the photos above are of the default BIOS setting when reset.

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