Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???

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From: Mr D Ingles
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 16:02

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In article <trung.726508956@sundance> trung@sundance.SJSU.EDU (Trung Tran) writes:

>>> >NO ROM BASIC
>>> >SYSTEM HALTED

>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?

I have obtained the error message a few times whilst using Norton
Commander.  The error sometimes appears if you try accessing a floppy
disk drive which doesn't contain a disk. 

Davei

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From: davei@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Mr D Ingles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: NO ROM BASIC, SYSTEM HALTED ???
Message-ID: <1993Jan9.160201.16092@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Jan 93 16:02:01 GMT
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