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From: Karl Princl
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 00:00

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Please check your system devices in WIN95 and report any "!" exclamation
marks.
Does your hard drive and floppy work fine if you boot to command prompt via
the F8 key?

James Sheldon <nfalcon@bellsouth.net> wrote in article
<MPG.d399c8594b2824f989685@news.bna.bellsouth.net>...
> In article <01bbfa7f$2a8265c0$0b33abce@maxman.speedlink.com>, 
> maxman@speedlink.com says...
> > I have a new asus motherboard model P/1 P55T2P4 with a new 200 intel
cpu
> > All my periphials are new.
> > I seem to loose my a drive every other day, and now today it's my d
drive i
> > reboot I see it load the driver and the led comes on it just wont
access
> > it.
> > Same problem with My A drive yesterday disk in light on drive spinning
then
> > cannot read from drive a.
> > Please help I'm mucho in debt.
> 
> I would start by checking to make sure that you don't have a DMA 
> conflict, although it's not as likely to cause the HD going out, but with

> the problem with the floppy, this is a hi probability. The likely culprit

> is either a sound card or a CD-Rom card having a DMA channel that is set 
> to one which by default is what the A drive will use.
> -- 
> James Sheldon
> AKA Night Falcon
> e-mail:nfalcon@bellsouth.net
>

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From: "Karl Princl" <kprincl@techcom.on.ca>
Subject: Re: Help needed
Date: 1997/01/05
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