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- From: jgl7@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew T. Kim)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc
- Subject: Hard Disk Failure???
- Message-ID: <1992Sep16.014307.15018@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 16 Sep 92 01:43:07 GMT
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- Reply-To: jgl7@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew T. Kim)
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- I don't have a clue what's going on with my PC. Someone help me PLEEZE?
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- Here is what's happening:
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- When I start-up, it says;
- "Hard Disk Failure.
- Press F1 to continue, F2 to run Setup Program"
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- Of course, F1 doesn't work, so I go ahead with F2 and I am now in the
- ROM Setup Screen.
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- It displays all the right information, including VGA Card, and Hard Disk
- Type (In this case Type 48). It would say;
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- "Esc to reboot, F1 to help, F10 to continue"
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- Having nothing better to do, I press F10 and it works!!! It starts up
- and everything is fine!!! Well, almost. At some point, it HANGS.
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- This happens everytime and it drives me NUTS!!!
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- My PC is ACMA 386/25MHz, with Phoenix ROM BIOS version 1.10.00 1985-1989,
- ATI VGA Wonder card, Seagate RLL 120MB Hard Drive.
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- I can always take it to the repair shop, but I didn't want to miss my work
- to carry this (heavy) sucker all the way and listens to the BS'ing salesman.
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- Anything is appreciated.
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- Andrew Kim
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