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Re: (No Subject)

• Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> May 23, 1998
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At 01:12 AM 5/23/98 -0700, Mathew Hounsell wrote:
>
>[Hardware Problems]
>Has any one had this problem: Computer starts. Performs POST hangs while
trying to read from the Hard Drive. HDD light stays on, wont turn of unless
you do a HDD Auto Detect or a Hard Reboot.
>
Yes.
I had this happen - would boot sometimes (1 out of 3 or 4).
Pretty soon that became 1 out of 20.
Does yours ever start and run properly?

Anyway: here's what I did:
1. check all the cables (unplug 'em and plug back in, wipes the
    contacts, you know)
2. Boot from a known good/virus free dos disk, run scandisk.
3. get some refreshments and do a low-level format, fdisk,
    format, reload dos. Leave Win95 and other viruses out
    for now.
If all that fails, remember:
4. Hard disk drive guts make neat nerdish wall decorations
    for your room.

Irv