Hi,
On a 486 I think I would start by replacing the CMOS battery. Any machine of
that age more than likely needs that, unless of course it has been done
recently.

Brad Loomis
Morro Bay, CA

-----Original Message-----
A friend's PC is failing to boot. The hard disk is identified quite alright
but after that it
gives an " invalid disk replace and press any key to continue" error
message. Pressing
a key does not solve anything. One interesting thing is that it cant even
boot with boot
disketes. I did set the boot sequence starting with A: then C:

The PC is 486, win 95, 24MB RAM and 800 MB disk space.


Chilangisha Changwe

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