Normally your floppies are in the back of the electrical cabinet in a blue disk holder. On the 5020, you will need the portable floppy drive as well as the tape reader in order to do the install since the tape reader has the install switch on it.
3200 seems pretty steep to get you machine going...does this include replacing the board or is Okuma gouging you that bad for a service call?
The install should only take about an hour and you know already how much time it takes to change out the board...
By the way, did you check the cables and unplug them and reseat them too? I'm assuming that when you reseated the boards, you took the cables off and on too. The other thing is if you have the card out, make sure all of the removable chips are seated properly as well. I had one that took a bumpy ride that just had a loose chip-pushed them all in again and she booted.
If they have to make you new disks, you may want to consider adding any options you want too. The disks are serial number specific, so unless you find someone with the exact same configuration (check the data managment card in the back of the elec. cabinet) their disks will not work.
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