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Re: >>French boot error message ???

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From: Ben Hinton
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 00:00
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It's happened to me too! :-)

I have also seen this message on my and other computers in the past... I
just ignore it, but I'd love to know why ot occasionally appears in French
not English...

Ben.

budgie wrote:

> The strangest thing has just happened to my kids' '486 ......
>
> Boot priority is set to A; C: and when a non-bootable floppy is left
> in at bootup, the error message "Drive not ready or non-system disk"
> etc etc appears in FRENCH.  This is new!  While I understand enough
> French to get by on, I'd like it back in English.
>
> Country code etc settings are fine, unaltered.  McAfee VirusScan gives
> machine a clean bill of health.  No file on the entire machine
> contains these French words.  It isn't a BIOS option either (AMI).
>
> Any constructive suggestions will be welcome.
>
> "Pierre"

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Date: 1999/05/07
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