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From: schuster@dasys1.UUCP (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows cannot read from A drive
Message-ID: <10606@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 89 11:20:39 GMT
References: <1989Aug22.110751.29481@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <546@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk>
Reply-To: schuster@dasys1.UUCP (Michael Schuster)
Organization: The Big Electric Cat; New York, N.Y. USA
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In article <546@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk> tlj@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk (Jones) writes:
>If I'm in windows 
>and I click on A drive then the machine crashes with a message which goes

If it's Windows/386, and you have an Award BIOS, it's probably the BIOS which
is crashing your machine. Some Award sets have a "feature" to slow down the
system clock when accessing the floppies, for "compatibility" (i.e. to boot
Lotus)  This sends Windows/386 into orbit.

If this is your situation, ask your dealer for an AMI or Phoenix BIOS ...
or a later Award set which has had NFS (No Floppy Switching) or NSS (No
Speed Switching) patched applied.


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