Hello, Jean.

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

 JP>   Life is full of funny happenings. I forgot to mention yesterday, that
 JP>   when I tried to Ghost your drive to my HD, smoke came out of the
 JP>   floppy. This is the first time that I ever have seen this. The floppy
 JP>   took this oportunity to die when I needed it most. It was not used
 JP>   very often these days and after close to 20 years, it gave up.

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

 JP>   I went to my friendly surplus shop and got two floppies for $7.77 US
 JP>   but by then, I had copied the Driver folder to my HD.

 JP>Did you get the pinout for the I/O header? I will not then bring
 JP>this KR637 with me as it is doing good service now. Sorry ;-))

No need for being sorry, if you're happy with it.  I had asked if you
might bring it when you come back south if you gave up on it.  Since
then, you got your PCI card to work in there, so if you're happy, so am
I.

I have several interpretations of the frontpanel pinouts by now - - one
I was working on here, one you emailed to me yesterday, and one I saw
posted here in TECH by Greg Easthom.  They are all different.  The one
you emailed doesn't have the correct number of pins, and I don't
fully trust the one which Greg E. found and posted, since I can't
remember having ever seen a pin header where there were 4 other pins
between the two pins for the HDD LED.

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

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

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

One store here which has all sorts of surplus and new parts has
various kinds of bi-color LEDS - - some with 2 pins, some with three
pins. Both kinds cost about 22 cents each there.  Without a good bit
more experimenting, and unless a "real" version of the pinouts shows up,
that one will be hard to figure out. So I recommend leaving the pwr
switch at "instant off" in SETUP.

- - -  JimH.

... Jim, why does everything these days have to be so danged complicated?-Bubba
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