fischer@milton.acs.washington.edu (S Somasundaram) (02/17/90)
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.hh2@prism.gatech.EDU (HAAS) (02/17/90)
in article <1964@milton.acs.washington.edu>, fischer@milton.acs.washington.edu (S Somasundaram) says: >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. Is your hard disk a 120 MB drive? If so, the disk may be going bad. Are you aware that IBM recalled some of their 120 MB drives? (well, they didn't CALL it a "recall".) Do not worry. IBM will replace the drive FREE - ON SITE. But you had better contact your dealer ASAP, because there may be a time limit on the free replacement. Your dealer can tell by the serial number on your machine (or drive) if you have a "bad" disk. Hope this helps . . . Harry P. Haas Georgia Tech Research Institute GTRI/RAIL/TDD S&E HHaas@GTRI01.GATECH.EDU hh2@prism.gatech.edu -- Harry Haas GTRI/RAIL/TDD "What makes it DO that!?" - Bones Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 uucp: ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!hh2 Internet: hh2@prism.gatech.edu HHaas@GTRI01.GATECH.EDU
O04@psuvm.psu.edu (Kevin Maher - Behrend Computer Center) (02/21/90)
a 301 error on any IBM machine indicates a keyboard error. (was something sitting on the keys when you powered up?)