How are you today Jim ?

 JH> I'm still way behind in responding here, but I'm jumping ahead to this
 JH> one.

        You are not alone, do not feel bad.
  On the dead floppy:

 JH> My guesses - -
 JH> 1)  The Ghost is actually a naughty poltergeist, and haunted the
 JH> drive.
 JH> 2)  It was time for the FDD to die of old age, and a mere
 JH> coincidence.
 JH> 3)  Ribbon cable hooked up wrong
 JH> 4)  I smoked a HDD  board one time while trying to plug in the power
 JH> while "hot" - -- it was one of those drives with the power conn.
 JH> upside down.

        Hee ! I will agree with 2). I was trying to get Ghost working
        but at the dreaded moment of floppy dismissal, a KR637 driver
        disk was in the drive.

 JH> so if you're happy, so am I.

  Birds of a feather.

 JH> I have several interpretations of the frontpanel pinouts by now - -
 JH> The one you emailed doesn't have the correct number of pins.

  The one that I posted here is what I see on the board and they work
  fine as posted, Jim. I had four leads to connect and the now are
  connected. Believe me, my I/O header only sports 8 wires.

 JH> When are you shipping the system to your nephew?  Maybe I'll have more
 JH> time for checking those pinouts by then.

  Not for another 3 weeks. Going back via Quebec City to Kamouraska
  again.

 JH> But whatever,  it is hard to argue with success, and if the pwr and
 JH> reset switches work correctly, and the pwr and HDD leds work right,
 JH> I think that should be about close enough.

  I will have to play a little more with the ON LED. It ought to be
  green but is amber. You mentioned a two colour LED for different
  functions. Maybe this connector is off by one pin ???

 JH> One thing - - I think I sent the mainboard with the Pwr switch set to
 JH> instant off instead of 4 second delay.  With the 4 second delay
 JH> active, you punch the pwr button once and it goes into suspend mode. 
 JH> You have to hold it in for at least 4 seconds before it powers down
 JH> normally. If it is set for 4 second delay,  I think a bi-color LED is
 JH> needed for the power indicator,  as that (pretty much worthless) manual
 JH> from MicronPC says that the power LED will change colors to Orange or
 JH> RED when it goes into suspend mode.

  That is what I need to look into, the two colour LED. But the fact
  that the BIOS can be set one way or another is no matter here as I
  always do the Windows "Shut Down" routine. It dies in 4 seconds.

 JH>  and unless a "real" version of the pinouts shows
 JH> up, that one will be hard to figure out.

  Let me wish you all the luck in the world. Seeking this out of date
  information is a real crusade.

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