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isa card not found
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:47 pm
by nickk
Hope someone can help. I have a JPM gamebox, and it keeps displaying "isa card not found call engineer". The probelm seems to be intermittent, and sometimes if I give the machine a bit of a shake and switch it off and on again it will boot up ok (I'm a great engineer)!However, the problem is happening more often. Does anyone know what this means - just wonder if it is a loose connection somewhere - if so, where is the isa card on this machine?
Re: isa card not found
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 10:02 pm
by 6502
nickk wrote: where is the isa card on this machine?
I think you will find it inside a big box that some of us call 'computers'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_S ... chitecture
Take it out and clean the contacts on the edge of the card.
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:09 am
by aaamusements.co.uk
Indeed it's in the bottom of the machine, within the part that is known as the "PC tray".
It slides out on a board after some of it's connections are removed.
Unscrew the metal cover next to the hard drive, and the ISA card is one of the upright boards stuck into a slot on the motherboard.
It might even just be as simple as reseating it.
These cards did have a habit of blowing one particular chip (usually when the power supply failed) but this would cause a continuous fault - not intermittent.