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From: jwm775@unhd.unh.edu (Jonathan W Miner)
Newsgroups: comp.virus
Subject: Re: Help, I may have a virus. (PC)
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Date: 26 Sep 90 14:30:39 GMT
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jbracher@UCSD.EDU (James Bracher) writes:
>I have had trouble with my C-MOS failing during boot up and having to
>fix missing or wrong information.  No big deal, but I ran the machine

This can also be caused by a bad battery.  I worked on a machine with
a faulty battery this summer and it configured itself differently
every day.  One result was refusing to format floppy disks.

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Jonathan Miner    (jwm775@unhd.UUCP)

I don't speak for UNH, nor they for me.
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