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From: honeywel@chama.unm.edu (Honeywell Field Service)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Epson Equity II+  (problems - Please help)
Message-ID: <1991May30.221747.5437@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 30 May 91 22:17:47 GMT
References: <1991May30.201331.22972@cs.mcgill.ca>
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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In article <1991May30.201331.22972@cs.mcgill.ca> gerardis@cs.mcgill.ca (Tony GERARDIS) writes:
>A friend of mine has an Epson Equity II+ with a 40Mb Miniscribe hard
>drive. There was recently a power failure (his system was on), and after
>that time The computer doesn't recognize that there is a hard drive
>connected. When you start up the hard drive light comes on and then
>wants to boot of drive a:. As far as I'm concerned the CMOS got screwed
>during the power failure!  However The system comes up with the error
>"161- run setup in diagnostics
>       options not set         "    ERROR.

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This is a common problem with Epson systems in my experience.  The lithium
cell that Epson provides seems to fail after approximately one year.  We
buy these batteries in quantity (50) because we never know when we're
going to have a rash of "options not set".  Usually the time/date clock
starts getting weird or resets all the time just before you "options
not set".

I would be amazed if some local Epson dealer wouldn't provide you with
this diskette as a courtesy.  I've never had a problem, to date, with 
getting a copy from one of the dealers, but then they know I'm with
Honeywell and they're usually extra nice.


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