warfa
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Hello, new member here. long time reader of these forums.
I finally bit the bullet and purchased 2 "War: final assault" games. Both were assured to be in good shape, but that wasn't entirely true..
After a locksmith and new power supply, I can get the one busted machine to turn on, but the hard drive appears to be toast. No read at all from the HDD test screen.
I tried to do a compact flash upgrade, as per suggestions on these forums and elsewhere around the web, by dumping a backup to a CF card- plugging it into an IDE converter and feeding it floppy power. When I power on, I get stuck with endless "eprom bong" reboots.
I thought it could be a flopped IDE cable, but when I reverse it, the LED on the motherboard doesn't even get past 1-8.. https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjbzd5dwrran3nf/IMG_0824w.MOV
I guess my question is: how do you know when to quit with the upgrade attempts, admit defeat, and buy a replacement drive off ebay
I finally bit the bullet and purchased 2 "War: final assault" games. Both were assured to be in good shape, but that wasn't entirely true..
After a locksmith and new power supply, I can get the one busted machine to turn on, but the hard drive appears to be toast. No read at all from the HDD test screen.
I tried to do a compact flash upgrade, as per suggestions on these forums and elsewhere around the web, by dumping a backup to a CF card- plugging it into an IDE converter and feeding it floppy power. When I power on, I get stuck with endless "eprom bong" reboots.
I thought it could be a flopped IDE cable, but when I reverse it, the LED on the motherboard doesn't even get past 1-8.. https://www.dropbox.com/s/xjbzd5dwrran3nf/IMG_0824w.MOV
I guess my question is: how do you know when to quit with the upgrade attempts, admit defeat, and buy a replacement drive off ebay

