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Richard_Robb@mindlink.bc.ca (Richard Robb) writes:

>> The Golden Gryphon writes:
>>
>> Msg-ID: <1993Jan05.132239.3881@openage.openage.com>
>> Posted: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 13:22:3
>>
>> Org.  : Open Age, Inc.
>>
>> rubin@procon.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:
>>
>>
>> >I have been fooling around with a new motherboard
>> >and some disks and get the following message when
>> >I try to boot a 340mb IDE drive
>>
>> >NO ROM BASIC
>> >SYSTEM HALTED
>>
>> You may not have the boot partition active.  Hookup the drive and run fdisk
>> off
>> floppy, and check the partition status.
>> --
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>I had this message pop up regularly after about 3 years' of almost
>round-the-clock usage of a Taiwanese clone computer.  My dealer said
>indicated a motherboard problem.  I suspected my system was overheating from
>too much use, and since I began turning it off a few hours a day to let it
>cool, the problem has disappeared.  In any case, the problem certainly was
>not related to anything having to do with my boot partition or hard disk, at
>least not with my system.

Well, I just saw this on my 486-50 last night.  I'm not really sure about
the heat-related theory.  It happened to me when I just got home from work.
I turned on the PC and there it was.  After a cold reboot, it disappeared.
I'm pretty sure this was the first time I saw it.  Even if it was
heat-related, I installed a CPU cooler (a small fan mounted on a heat-sink)
for my 486 to prevent it from getting fried.

Anyhow, anyone else has any comment?

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