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- From: trung@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Trung Tran)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
- Message-ID: <trung.726508956@sundance>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 16:02:36 GMT
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- Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
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- Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb) writes:
-
- >> 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.
-
- Well, I just saw this on my 486-50 last night. I'm not really sure about
- the heat-related theory. It happened to me when I just got home from work.
- I turned on the PC and there it was. After a cold reboot, it disappeared.
- I'm pretty sure this was the first time I saw it. Even if it was
- heat-related, I installed a CPU cooler (a small fan mounted on a heat-sink)
- for my 486 to prevent it from getting fried.
-
- Anyhow, anyone else has any comment?
-
- --
- Trung Tran (408) 924-5106
- trung@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU
- Math & Computer Science Dept.
- San Jose State University
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