[comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc] "1701" on boot = HD Death?

yee@edison.seas.ucla.edu (John Yee/;093090;eegrad) (10/03/90)

Sorry if this is a repeat, the 1st post seems to have misfired.
Anyway, I have a Miniscribe 40 MB which has worked flawlessly for 2 years.
The other day, I had to track down a bad memory chip, thus I had to
do lots of power up and downs and chip switching.
Now, I get a "1701" at boot time and the system does not recognize the HD.
I thought I was careful, but could something like removing a single memory
chip too soon after powering down zap one of those super chips on the
HD controller card?  Is there another explanation?

Any experience, helpful comments etc. welcome at yee@ee.ucla.edu, jy.