So, I picked up one of these at a garage sale last weekend for a decent price and thought I'd turn it into a ICAROS box.
Installed memory is a bit thin at 384MB, but that isn't the problem. I am unable to get the OS installed on the hard drive.
It only has a CD, so tried hooking up a portable DVD player and boot from that, but the DVD I freshly burned didn't work.
Tried Lite in the CD and all I got was a constant reboot.
I then tried booting from the DVD in my regular computer and doing an install on the hard drive then put the hard drive in the TA1, but the hard drive won't boot once installed.
Thinking the hard drive might be bad, I tried several other hard drives I have ranging in size for 6MB up to 80GB. All give errors and don't install. Yet these same drives format just fine in Windows 10.
So, seeing I'm just about at the end of my wits and about to give upon this project, I'm asking for help.
Here's the specs on the TA1:
ChipsetVIA VT8601T(PLE133T) / VT82C686B VESAVIA EBGA C3 800MHz / 1GHz CPU
- VIA C3 EBGA 733MHz and above
- Automatic 100 /133 MHz FSB
- Automatic detect CPU core voltage
Memory
- 2 x 168 pin DIMM sockets
- Support PC100 /PC133 SDRAM
- Support up to 1GB SDRAM
- Support only 3.3V SDRAM
GraphicsVIA S3 ProSavage integrated graphics
Is it worth still trying to Icaros working on this machine?
Curtis