isa card not found

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nickk
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isa card not found

Post 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?
6502
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Re: isa card not found

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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'

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Take it out and clean the contacts on the edge of the card.
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Post 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.
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