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Jan Pearce <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 30 May 1999 10:31:15 -0400
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try bios,check reboot sequence
-----Original Message-----
From: JMB <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, May 30, 1999 2:46 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Floppy Drive turns on


>My son's laptop has started to act funny, so he says.  He had loaded
>some CDROM games onto his computer, but the "sound" drivers were not up
>to snuff for them so he deleted them.  But now, whenever he starts up
>his laptop, when the icons start appearing on the desktop, the floppy
>drive starts up and will either run for about 2 minutes or until he
>sticks in a blank floppy.
>
>I had him search: Autoexec.bat, Config.sys, and look in his Startup
>folder for anything pointing to the A: drive, but he couldn't find
>anything (this was done over the phone from K.C. to Tulsa).
>
>Any ideas as to where else I might need to have him look?  Any
>shortcuts?
>
>TIA
>--
>Jean Bourvic :>))
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