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One possibility is that the cmos has been set to
do a "quick POST." (Power on self test.) If this
is set, then sometimes the hard drive does not
have time to get up to speed before the boot
sequence begins on a cold boot, but is up to
speed when you re-boot warm, so it does work
the second time. Check your cmos.
Dean Kukral
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Cook <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 8:02 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Boot Up Message
>Hello,
>
> A customer brought me a Packard Bell Legend 130CD, Pentium 100Mhz.
>computer that just started displaying the following message during boot up:
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>"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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