Article View: bit.mailserv.word-pc
Article #14043Help on 486PC problem
From: ZHUHAN JIANG
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 01:21
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 01:21
28 lines
1761 bytes
1761 bytes
I am having trouble with my 486 PC machine. I was wondering if anyone can shed some lights on the matter. The program is that my two floppy drives (5|1/4 and 3|1/2) failed *simultaneously* during a machine-to-machine file transfer done by a friend of mine. My PC since ceased to read data from either of the floppy disks--screaming 'data reading error' for a formated disk and 'general reading error' for a unformated disk. The machine, under DOS 3.3, is working as usual on hard disk. But I can neither read or directly reboot from floppy drives. I have looked at my CMOS configuration at the booting point, the disk configurations are correct. I firmly believe that the problem lies in software or configurations as I can hardly believe that both drives physically failed at the same time when no violent physical impact was experienced by the PC. If you have any idea or advice on how to locate the problem of my PC properly, please give me some suggestions---big or small, complete or incomplete--all of them will be greatly and equally appreciated. Thank you very much for your efforts Zhuhan
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<501@grivel.une.edu.au>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!metro!grivel!metz.une.edu.au!zjiangShow Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106cba,9e54a1591dd7d1d1,start X-Google-Attributes: gid106cba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-03-28 04:06:28 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!metro!grivel!metz.une.edu.au!zjiang From: zjiang@metz.une.edu.au (ZHUHAN JIANG) Newsgroups: bit.mailserv.word-pc Subject: Help on 486PC problem Message-ID: <501@grivel.une.edu.au> Date: 27 Mar 93 01:21:51 GMT Sender: usenet@grivel.une.edu.au Organization: University of New England, Armidale, Australia Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: metz.une.edu.au