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From: glratt@rice.edu (Glenn Forbes Larrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: H/Disk boot failure msg.
Message-ID: <1990Aug10.123723.7811@rice.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 90 12:37:23 GMT
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> I have run test program against the controller, it seems okay.
>
> If I remove the FD/HD controller and put it back in, I can boot from H/Disk.
> But after couple boots, the msg. come back again.
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^
You might also look into the problem being heat-related.  If by "after a couple
boots" you mean after the machine's been up for a while and Ctrl-Alt-Del'd
several times, there could be excess heat building up in the neighborhood of
the controller.


	Glenn Larratt			glratt@uncle-bens.rice.edu
	Computing Resource Center	OCIS, Rice University, Houston, Texas