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From: yip@wsl.dec.com (Michael Yip (Lt Cmdr - Chief Test Pilot))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: 2 PC Questions
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.224045.10886@pa.dec.com>
Date: 7 Feb 91 22:40:45 GMT
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Reply-To: yip@wsl.dec.com (Michael Yip (Lt Cmdr - Chief Test Pilot))
Organization: DEC Western Software Laboratory
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A friend of mine called me up a couple of days ago with some
problems on her XT compatible.  She is an accountant and knows
very little about computer.

She was running some kind of database and the machine hung.
The intersting thing was that she couldn't reboot again from
her hard drive immediately, but if she left it overnight or 
for a period of time, she had no problem with it, and could 
reboot again from the hard drive.  This happened, according
to her, a few times already.  She had no problem if she was
to reboot it from drive A and the hard disk was then accessible.

I have not had time to go visit her and looked at the machine
yet but does this all make sense that if you leave the machine
off for a while, it would reboot?  Does it sound like the fan is
not working properly cooling off the boards inside the box?

I suppose an un-related problem is why the database crashed (no
idea which one she was using at the time, as I said, I have not
had time to find out from her yet) but this sounds like a DIFFERENT
problem and has to be looked at.

Can someoen enlighten me especially on the first part of the 
problem why the machine wouldn't boot up immediately after 
the crash and would work later?

Thanks.

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Michael E. Yip
Digital Equipment Corporation	Internet: yip@wsl.enet.dec.com
Western Software Laboratory	UUCP: ...decwrl!wsl.enet.dec.com!yip
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