Posted by Tom on February 26, 19103 at 23:08:32:
In Reply to: 1520 Succuess! posted by Tom on February 25, 19103 at 19:36:16:
You do NOT need to destroy your chip socket as I did. I forgot to add that to get it off, you need to lift it off from the sides. It's a little socket that has holes underneat for the pins to slide into. Usually when these are used, the board has a hole beneath it so the chip/socket assembly can be popped off the base.
: Well, I reset the RTC, and ended up with a date of 66/66/66.
: While it was still cracked open, I was poking about. I noticed the 286 chip in there was the same as one I had, except my other one was a bit faster. Did a swap, cracked the chip holder, neither chip would work. I took it all apart completely to find the problem, and just gave up on it for a few hours. Once again determined to get into it, I put it half-together, held onto the cpu socket, and powered up.
: Nothing.
: Power down.
: Power up, nothing.
: Let go of CPU socket, looked around.
: Plasma screen comes to life, does the memory count, tells me the clock is stopped/date is wrong..
: And..
: It tells me there is no OS on the drive, and it loads from the floppy!
: So, somehow, there's more to reset than the RTC.
: Now I just need an OS.
: Good luck to the other frustrated 1520 owners out there.