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From: tom@vrdxhq.UUCP (Tom Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: HELP? with upgrade => 3.3
Keywords: Compaq Deskpro  MS-DOS 2.11  NEC V30  DOS 3.3
Message-ID: <5855@vrdxhq.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 07:11:21 GMT
Sender: news@vrdxhq.UUCP
Organization: Verdix Corporation, Chantilly, VA
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I have a Compaq Deskpro, circa 1985.  One year ago I put in
a NEC V30.  Since then I've run all kinds of software with
NO PROBLEMS.  

Tonight I went through the exercise of backing up a 20 MB hard
disk to 360k floppies, and upgrading from MS-DOS 2.11 to PC-DOS 3.3.
I did this to take advantage of supposeedly more efficient 3.3, and
to have 3.3 support for 720KB 3.5" drive which I am installing next
week.  (I got it free!  No -- I would not purchase one of these alien
things.)

Well, guess what?  My machine won't boot from the hard disk.  I can
boot from DOS 3.3 in drive A, and everything works fine.  The hard
disk is all there -- and I reloaded all my software and tested everything
with NO PROBLEMS.                               

But, if I try to boot from the hard disk, it just hangs.  I never get
anything.                    

Actually, I had a couple of other peculiarities:

  1)  WHen I tried to run PC 3.3 basica, I got a message
      telling me to load Compaq MS-DOS diskette in drive A or B.
      Bizarre!  That means the EPROM is intercepting BASICA 
      invocations.

  2)  Machine now boots in slow (4.77 red light mode) instead of
      7.14.


So, ANY SUGGESTIONS?