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Subject:	Re: System hangs at "Starting MS-DOS" screen
From:	Alan Schneider <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:58:56 -0400
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At 11:00 AM 7/30/00 -0400, George N. Weinisch said:

>I have tried different boot disks, with no success.  The drive light does
>not stay on; the system checks the A:, the B: (5 1/4"), then the hard drive,
>at which point it hangs.  Ribbon cables have not been reversed, but I have
>reseated all connectors.

Have you rechecked your BIOS settings to make sure that your hard drive is
still identified correctly?  Maybe that has changed somehow?

>Shouldn't F5 or F8 allow me to step through my config.sys and autoexec.bat
>files?  I am running Win 3.11.

Not if the OS doesn't actually boot...

--
Regards,
Alan

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