I'm in the midst of attempting to upgrade my data gathering system without doing much on the software front and seem to have run into a snag. I'm assuming the bulk of my problem is my general ignorance of IBM systems and an avoidance of updating OS/hardware along the way, but hope someone might know a work around as this is needed for some graduate research work and funding for a new system just isn't going to happen. We have an older DT2801A A/D board which started out in a 386, migrated to a 486 and recently found a home in a P90. The first transition went easily enough, but the Pentium system isn't recognizing the board. The transfer of systems was a direct swap of the harddrive and a 5 1/4" floppy drive (th
e latter of which isn't working yet either), has a secondary harddrive (E), a 3 1/2" diskdrive, no network connections (enet card installed though), 5 EISA (?) slots, 3 PCI and the drivers used previously were in the Labtech notebook software (admittedly ancient and previously freaked out by a HD over 50MB).
Using MSD in DOS 6.22, the system doesn't appear to recognize the card at all, though I still haven't tried all the slots available. There doesn't appear to be any base address conflict, but I can't confirm the DMA settings for the other cards.
From what I can gather so far, it seems to point to either: (1) a BIOS problem; (2) driver problem; (3) burned out card; (4) possible addressing conflicts, as yet unidentified.
Anyone have any thoughts?
Thanks in advance, Tony
