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Re: Boot Up Message
From:
Larry Atlow <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 15 Aug 1998 06:22:54 -0500
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Mark and Judith Walter wrote:
>
> > >      A customer brought me a Packard Bell Legend 130CD, Pentium 100Mhz.
> > > computer that just started displaying the following message during boot up:
> > >
> > > "Insert bootable media in the appropriate drive"
> > >
>          Have you edited the autoexec.bat to make sure it is not
> something in there looking for a file from a program the customer may
> have installed?
...
Nothing in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file would have an effect on the boot up
sequence at this stage.  This file cannot run until after this aspect
has been checked, tested and executed successfully.
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Larry Atlow                          Internet:[log in to unmask]
Microcomputer Analyst                Phonenet: (601) 264-9639

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