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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard disk woes and PS/2 question
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Date: 16 Feb 90 18:58:22 GMT
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In article <1964@milton.acs.washington.edu>,
fischer@milton.acs.washington.edu (S Somasundaram) writes:
>
>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.

I don't know much about the power requirements of PC machines, but
63.5W sounds like a very small amount of power to me (AT machines
usually come with around 200W). Maybe this is a cause of some of
your problems.

Richard Stanton