Collier@UNCAMULT.BITNET (John Collier) (11/29/90)
I also encountered the boot sector virus on the SVGA disk by accidentally booting the disk on a 286 clone. It played notes, a tune, and then shut up. Later that day the boot sector was corrupted enough to disallow booting form the hard drive. I booted from a floppy, did a complete backup, and then did a low-level format of the hard drive, and reloaded my software. Things have been OK since, until today I get no response at all when I turn the machine on. I suspect a hardware problem, perhaps a dead CMOS battery, but it is astrange coincidence nonetheless. The fact the virus is a new one led me to think it was a hardware problem from the beginning. John Collier UNCAMULT.BITNET