3com etherlink III MCA

From: SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com <(SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com)>
Date: Wed Jun 23 14:17:31 2004

>That's disappointing as I've got one too. Given that its MCA I thought it
would be at >a premium and therefore quite valuable.

>The one I've got is in an IBM PS2 Model 60 but when I boot it I get some
gobbledy->gook on screen which is not very promising - if anyone has any clues
I'd be >grateful. I thought of disabling the HD and trying to boot from a floppy
to see if it >was just the HD that's cactus.

MCA stuff is pretty common still if you know where to look. Plenty of cheap
stuff on ebay all the time. I've got loads of goodies meself. What's harder to
find is the interesting stuff like the MCA servers and upgrade parts/boards.

As for the mod60 problems, I'm sure it can be fixed. They seldom go bad. You
might be getting a password skeleton key prompt, or a numerical POST code.
If all else fails, remove the battery for a while, take out all adaptors
except for the hard drive one, build a reference disk and then try to boot from
it. After you build a ref disk, don't let Win9x read it as it messes it up and
the PS/2 wont boot from it.
Received on Wed Jun 23 2004 - 14:17:31 BST

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