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From: ericb@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Eric Berggren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Boot Problem
Message-ID: <2905@pdxgate.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 91 08:16:10 GMT
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MLWLG@CUNYVM.BITNET writes:

>Hello.
>Resently, I added a S-VGA card and monitor to  my system and, it worked fine.

>Then I added a combination I/O Card with 2 serial, 1 Parellel, and 1 Game port
>to the system.......:-(

>Now the system will not always boot, either from the Hard or floppy drives. So,
>I then removed the multiport card. But still the problem remains; I can live
>the problem because it is intermittent, yes, sometimes the system will boot
>cold or warm, but not consistently.

   Hmmm... Can you be a little more specific when you say it doesn't boot?
Does it get through POST? Does it attempt to boot off the drive then stop?
etc...

-e.b.

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