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From: johnj@knor.prl.philips.nl (John Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mega STe Question (or Problems)
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Date: 28 May 91 10:43:15 GMT
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My question about the boot sequence of the Mega STe
seems to be not totally clear. So I try to add the
correct information here and come straight to the point:

1. My Mega STe waits 30 seconds before it boots from hard disk,
   although I do have an empty (formatted) floppy disk in the
   floppy drive.

2. The special point of my start-sequence was, that I could
   only decrease the idle time (in front of the booting process)
   by pressing the 'return' key on the correct moment.

   This correct moment is immediately after the 3rd switch-on of
   the FD-light after switching on the computer, or immediately
   after the 2nd switch-on of the FD-light incase of a reboot
   by means of the Ctrl-Alt-RightShift-Del key press.

   Note that the first flash of the three flashes mentioned above
   is very short, and not noticable if you do not pay attention,
   while the other two flashes (in both re-boot situations)
   are very obvious as they last for a second or so.

So please let me know if these two procedures are correct.

As I stated before, I will be off the net for a few(?) days 
from Friday May 31th onwards, so I probably won't be able
to read replies on the net, as they sometimes take a few days...
and my money back guarantee expires in a few days!

So please   REPLY  BY  EMAIL .
I will summarise 
when I'm back on the net.

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