hog 2 installation

Obvious I know but you don’t have a key stuck down by any chance on the desk or externally connected keyboard?
Ross

yeah, the key is fine.
pressing number and the enter button work just normal.

I just notice that file name I have download for disk 1 & 2 looks different, think I've got a corrupted download.

I'll try it again.

thank you

Hello, first you download the file from the web site onto your PC. You unzip this file again onto your PC. This will give you two files called DISC 1 and DISC 2 and they should be on your pc, not on floppy discs.
Unzip each of these files onto the two floppy discs. The file on the floppy will be .bin files.

hi Mitch
I've got the .bin and now it shows disk unreadable
Also I heard the floppy drive rang twice then show the unreadable.
oh yeah I forgot to note that
when I tried 1,clean show
it says something like program corrupted memory

i change another disk
now i'm able to see some difference
it work and load till 100%
but in the end it says
100% cimpleted
Program corrupted
Load program failed

Could there be a hardware problem (maybe the ROM) preventing the complete upload and booting of the software?

Regards,

That is possble
however I would like to narrow down the problem to find out which is actually causing it

I have seen similar problems with a failing floppy disk drive.
these drives are very cheap from your local computer store, or the internet.
I would try replacing it and see if it helps.
Good luck,
Joshua Wood

I'll try that in awhile.
thank you

But I have been thinking this 'program memory corrupted' has to do eith internal memory failure and not the floppy
afterall I did get the disk loading to 100%
Just it end up showing corrupted again

I just tried with the another floppy drive.
same as before
load 100%
program failed
program memory corrupt

It is possible the console has one or more bad memory chips, or possibly damaged traces on the processor pcb causing the problems.

Is it possible to change the whole pcb myself?

[quote=justinpma;39070]Is it possible to change the whole pcb myself?

Since it appears to run OK otherwise, myself I would look to change the memory chips, at least if they are socketed, first. Or, try swapping them around and see if the problem changes nature . . . . . if so, it would confirm that they are the problem.

Unless the console has had something spilled into it, or been in very bad environmental conditions, I would think it highly unlikely that anything would have failed in terms of pcb traces . . . . that just doesn't happen typically without mechanical intervention, corrosive substances, etc.

- Tim

for this case I'm not very sure,
all I can say is that the console haven't been bootup for close to 10 years.
no idea what the reason is, now I got hold of the console
and would like to return it back into working condition.
I would guess one through moisture environment in the basement, that's the weather around here.

as for swapping the memory, I would do that if it is not solder.

I also check lightparts.com and there's no sale of memory instead of the pcb.