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- From: massoud@chemteca.sdsu.edu (Massoud Ajami)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
- Subject: Re: POST/BIOS Error 601
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 17:27:56 GMT
- Organization: San Diego State University
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- Message-ID: <massoud.169.725995676@chemteca.sdsu.edu>
- References: <1993Jan2.081019.14712@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au>
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- Summary: What does the "601" error mean?
-
- In article <1993Jan2.081019.14712@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au> ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (Ian Staples) writes:
- >From: ianst@qdpii.comp.qdpi.oz.au (Ian Staples)
- >Subject: POST/BIOS Error 601
- >Summary: What does the "601" error mean?
- >Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 08:10:19 GMT
- >Hi, I hope this is an appropriate group for this post. Please help if you can.
- >
- >My LOGI 88-XT has lost its floppy disk drives:
- >
- >On bootup, I simply get the cryptic message "601" after the POST memory test.
- >The machine then politely requests "Press F1 to continue". When you press F1
- >it continues to boot from drive C:, but there is no sign of "testing" the
- >floppy drives as part of the boot process. The drives remain dead. If you
- >try to read a directory or otherwise use one of them, you get the message
- >"Drive not ready...". There is no indication that the machine attempted to
- >access the drive in question - i.e. no noise and no drive light on.
- >
- >Does anyone know what the error "601" indicates? I assume it is a BIOS
- >error message of some sort, relating to the failed FDDs. Is it telling me
- >anything useful, or is it just some sort of general statement of failure?
- >
- >The system is an XT using the NEC V20 chip.
- >BIOS is Award ("Licensed") [What other sort do they sell? :)]
- >640k memory
- >Multi-I/O Card for FDDs, clock, parallel printer port, etc.
- >HDD Miniscribe Model 8425 with RLL controller to give 30 meg drive
- >FDDs A: is 5 1/4" 360k
- > D: is 3 1/2" 720k (configured as an external drive to get 720k)
- > [B: is physically the 3 1/2" drive, but machine thinks it is 360k].
- >EGA Monitor
- >XT/AT Keyboard [which occasionally gives problems too - error "301"]
- >
- >Any help gratefully received. Thank you, and Happy New Year.
- >
- >Ian S.
- >
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-
- Error 601 is the power failure for floppy during diagnostics. Check the
- power line to the drive, or it might be the failure of the board to report
- as being alive.
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- Peace and Prosperity!
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