Joel ;
 I have a 50Z and I think it goes into setup automatically
 after the red circle and line routine.
   One trick I use is to unplug the floppy drive and
  it goes into setup because of the hardware error.
  If that doesn't work I would suspect the bios might
 be corrupt.

  My 50Z is a 286 and runs win 3.1 fairly well.
 It has a 60mb IBM hdrive model: WD-387
I have been trying to figure out what kind of memory it takes
(single 72 pin simms).
 I tried 8mb EDO, and it wouldn't work.

  HTH:

Joel Bluming wrote:
> Someone gave me an old PS/2 Model 50 Z to fix. The
> Hard Drive (30 Megs) sounds like a sanding disk. Of
> course it won't boot. I get an red circle with a
> line and an arrow pointing to IBM on the screen.


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