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- From: Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb)
- Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 10:34:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <19377@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- > The Golden Gryphon writes:
- >
- > Msg-ID: <1993Jan05.132239.3881@openage.openage.com>
- > Posted: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 13:22:3
- >
- > Org. : Open Age, Inc.
- >
- > rubin@procon.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:
- >
- >
- > >I have been fooling around with a new motherboard
- > >and some disks and get the following message when
- > >I try to boot a 340mb IDE drive
- >
- > >NO ROM BASIC
- > >SYSTEM HALTED
- >
- > You may not have the boot partition active. Hookup the drive and run fdisk
- > off
- > floppy, and check the partition status.
- > --
- > The Golden Gryphon gryphon@openage.COM
- > "Mad Scientists seeks mindless brawny assistants, good pay, quiet
- > location."
- > "They're not ghosts, they're metaphysically challenged." - Me
- > Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area
-
- I had this message pop up regularly after about 3 years' of almost
- round-the-clock usage of a Taiwanese clone computer. My dealer said
- indicated a motherboard problem. I suspected my system was overheating from
- too much use, and since I began turning it off a few hours a day to let it
- cool, the problem has disappeared. In any case, the problem certainly was
- not related to anything having to do with my boot partition or hard disk, at
- least not with my system.
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