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From: sgilley@cbnewsl.att.com (The Idealistic Cynic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Help With Compaq Deskpro 386/20 Error Message...
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.133136.19278@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 3 Jun 91 13:31:36 GMT
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Organization: AT&T, Piscataway, New Jersey
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I recently bought a Compaq DeskPro 386/20.  It had
been loaded with SCO Xenix 2.3.1.  It also had a 
non-working monitor.  I went out and bought a new
SVGA card and monitor and installed both.

Now, when I power on the machine I have problems.

The AVGA Bios message comes up (from the SVGA card),
and then it tests RAM.

Then it beeps twice and prints the following message:

162 - System Options Not Set (Run Setup)
      Insert Diagnostic Disk in Drive A

(F1 to Resume)

If I press F1, then it boots the DOS I installed and seems
to work just fine -- with one exception. CNTL+ALT+DEL only
rarely reboots the machine -- most often everything simply
hangs.

So what diagnostic disk do I need?  Did it come with the machine
originally, and do I need to go buy one from a Compaq dealer?

And assuming that I do, will that fix the soft boot problem?

Thanks for any help,

Sean.

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