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Subject:
Boot Up Message
From:
Jim Cook <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:57:52 -0500
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Hello,

     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"

The customer advised it just recently started doing this.  You can hit the
reset button or Ctrl-Alt-Delete when the message displays and the computer
boots normaly.  This happens only during a cold boot.  The bios boot
sequence is set to boot the floppy first and then hard drive.  I reversed
this to boot from the hard drive first and got the same message.  The floppy
drive, 1.44 MB does work and the computer can be booted from a floppy disk.
Any ideas?  Thanks

Jim Cook
Jim's Coomputer Systems

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