One of my friends decided I needed some mental exercise, and brought me a pile-o-parts that I think was once a bartop Megatouch XL.
Tinkered with it for a bit, got it from DOA to a booting board (bad ide cable), then got the thing to boot from the eprom by plugging the daughterboard directly into the motherboard (bad isa riser?), and the little round key adapter had some butchered wiring in place of the original connector, so I cleaned/fixed that up and got it to where it now boots until it gets to reading the key...sometimes it reads the key and spits out the number from it, then acts like its about to boot and reboots. After it reboots...it gets the "bad system disk" error until I power it off then back on.
I took the exact same key and adapter off my project Megatouch (this has the proper connector) and tried it with the same results.
Its looking possibly like the daughterboard might be bad (due to it flaking out on reboot), but has anyone seen this? Could it just be a corrupted/bad cd?
I believe its Platnium XL 1.03 and according to Merits site it has the proper key.
Tinkered with it for a bit, got it from DOA to a booting board (bad ide cable), then got the thing to boot from the eprom by plugging the daughterboard directly into the motherboard (bad isa riser?), and the little round key adapter had some butchered wiring in place of the original connector, so I cleaned/fixed that up and got it to where it now boots until it gets to reading the key...sometimes it reads the key and spits out the number from it, then acts like its about to boot and reboots. After it reboots...it gets the "bad system disk" error until I power it off then back on.
I took the exact same key and adapter off my project Megatouch (this has the proper connector) and tried it with the same results.
Its looking possibly like the daughterboard might be bad (due to it flaking out on reboot), but has anyone seen this? Could it just be a corrupted/bad cd?
I believe its Platnium XL 1.03 and according to Merits site it has the proper key.

