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From: fischer@milton.acs.washington.edu (S Somasundaram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Hard disk woes and PS/2 question
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Date: 16 Feb 90 17:34:53 GMT
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Bear with me -- how do I post my problems without referring to anybody else's?
The only way I can see right now is to hit  f  which sends a followup article
rather than start a new one. Typing  h  for help revealed nothing. Thank you

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Problem : Warm-booting of my IBM - PC, possibly an XT.
 
CONFIGURATION : True IBM-PC with a seagate ST-251 hard drive, 40 Meg and 1
		5.25" floppy drive. For some reason the hard drive is called D: 		and E: instead of the usual C: and D:.
		Microsoft Mouse, MGA and monochrome monitor.

MORE ON PROBLEM : The IBM works fine except when I press ctrl-alt-del when it
   		goes through the motion of booting, the light on D: coming up
   		followed by checking the A: drive. THEN the light on D: comes
                on and gets stuck right there. The IBM is more than 4 years old
                with a power supply of 63.5W.
                The only other things that it uses are a serial port 
                and a parallel port. It has functioned well since the hard disk
                was installed about a year ago but has been acting up for about
                a week. A low level format using DISK MANAGER which came with 
                it didn't change anything. SUGGESTIONS?

QUESTION ON PS/2: What does IBM =/ (that is not equal to) 301 mean when a model
                70 with tons of hard disk space and network connected  boots up?
                If you turn the machine off and on enough times it goes away.

Thanks for any suggestions or tips. e-mail or post. Anything that remedies+
replies in good quantity will be summarized.