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- From: mingmar@cs.mcgill.ca (Ming MAR)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
- Message-ID: <C0Kxq1.GHo@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 09:15:36 GMT
- References: <19377@mindlink.bc.ca> <trung.726508956@sundance>
- Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator)
- Organization: SOCS - Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada
- Lines: 18
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- trung@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Trung Tran) writes:
- >Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb) writes:
- >
- >>> The Golden Gryphon writes:
- >>>
- >>> >NO ROM BASIC
- >>> >SYSTEM HALTED
- >>>
- >>> You may not have the boot partition active.
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >I turned on the PC and there it was. After a cold reboot, it disappeared.
-
- This occurs when you run an old IBM program. Only IBM puts BASIC in
- ROM. It was their way of forcing people to buy true blue instead of a
- compatible. It was an unsuccessful strategy.
-