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John Chin <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 17 Mar 1998 01:49:04 -0500
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At 09:26 PM 3/16/1998  Larry Atlow  wrote:
>. . .
>Okay.  These are NCR 3225 PCs.  80386 machines in pizza box cases that
>were originally used in a travel agency, I think.  They will boot fine
>off the hard drives, but will not boot off of the floppy drives, even
>with known good boot floppies.  The effect is the same as if there were
>no disk in the drive.  They are set up with networking software.  There
>is an option in the menus that will disable the networking on the
>following boot, but it doesn't work on all of them.
>


Larry:

Perhaps there is a Boot ROM on the network cards or motherboard
that passes control directly to the hard drive.

Try removing/disabling the network component.

Regards,

John Chin

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