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> 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.
> --
> The Golden Gryphon                              gryphon@openage.COM
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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.