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- From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.160201.16092@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 16:02:01 GMT
- References: <19377@mindlink.bc.ca> <trung.726508956@sundance>
- Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
- Lines: 19
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- In article <trung.726508956@sundance> trung@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Trung Tran) writes:
-
- >>> >NO ROM BASIC
- >>> >SYSTEM HALTED
-
- >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?
-
- I have obtained the error message a few times whilst using Norton
- Commander. The error sometimes appears if you try accessing a floppy
- disk drive which doesn't contain a disk.
-
- Davei
-