[MegaMoog]

We have an eztrak sx and the cmos settings are ?
The boot disk we have doesn't seem to work?
I was wondering if some body would be able to copy and e-mail us one so as we can try and get this thing going?
The floppy we have says v.3.02 but no luck in booting!

cmos settings are best that we can guess at!?

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Thanx, Larry

[machintek]

There were quite a few mother boards used each with some variation in the CMOS.
Start at the first page and set the time, date, the type of floppy to 3.5 inch 1.44MB, the hard drive to none, and the keyboard test to OFF. The boot sequence should be a, c.

This should at least get you to the point of it reading the floppy.

George

[MegaMoog]

Thanks
Floppy lights up and spins but just get : disk not ready!
cmos settings seem to hold as to what we set them at!
looked at floppy and seeems blank!
now what?

thanx, larry

[NC Cams]

If you need to boot via a floppy, you MUST be sure that the disk is/was a SYSTEM disk with the booting operating system on it.

NOTE: A non-SYSTEM disk will NEVER BOOT as will an empty boot disk.

If the boot disk is "empty" and not a system disk, the system will never boot.

Now what?

Get a KNOWN GOOD bootable system disk with the operating system loaded on it and then try again to boot with it again.

Trouble shooting a CNC machine is a bunch of nebulously simple troubleshooting steps strung together in an excruciatingly simple sequence.

Look at it like this:

walk into room
put one foot in front of other
turn on light
get coffee
make sure machine is plugged in
insert boot disk
turn on machine
etc.

You are not going to get/find a magic bullet fix unless you stumble across it via simple dumb luck or have BTDT before - then it is just a DUH moment...

[machintek]

If a floppy was blank/missing the OS, would it not say that SYSTEM NOT FOUND? This still sounds like a floppy issue. Take your floppy to a PC and see what is on it. If it has COMMAND.COM and two hidden files, it is a boot disk.

George

[NC Cams]

To create a SYSTEM disk:

a. find a DOS machine (not XP or Win, a tru DOS machine)

b. insert disk to be made into SYSTEM disk into A:\

c. change to the DOS directory of the computer via
CD C:\DOS or something like that

d. from C:\DOS prompt, type "sys a:"

This will transfer the 'hidden' files needed for the disk to act as a bootable disk.

e. Copy your CNC required bootable files to what is now a SYTSTEM disk.

Get a DOS manual. You simply can't run a machine of this vintage by trying to learn the DOS commands needed to run the machine in fits and starts via a message board.