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Article #12029Re: >>French boot error message ???
From: Ben Hinton
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 00:00
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------84AA9D287FE18A345EFBFAFF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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" --------------84AA9D287FE18A345EFBFAFF Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="happy_ben.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Ben Hinton Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="happy_ben.vcf" begin:vcard n:Hinton;Ben tel;work:0413 869603 x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:PHASE Systems adr:;;;Canberra;ACT;;Australia version:2.1 email;internet:phase_systms@hotmail.com title:Director note;quoted-printable:Mobile Computer Hardware Retailer=0D=0A=0D=0AUpgrades, Repairs and other services on site.=0D=0ACustom built systems.=0D=0AGeneral Computer Advice. fn:Ben Hinton end:vcard --------------84AA9D287FE18A345EFBFAFF--
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,257311eb5b3c53c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: f53ba,257311eb5b3c53c3 X-Google-Attributes: gidf53ba,public From: Ben Hinton <happy_ben@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: >>French boot error message ??? Date: 1999/05/07 Message-ID: <3732E2E7.174DC195@hotmail.com> X-Deja-AN: 475142853 References: <3732df96.3443248@news.cantech.net.au> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------84AA9D287FE18A345EFBFAFF" X-Trace: news2.ozemail.com.au 926081885 202.12.90.213 (Fri, 07 May 1999 22:58:05 EST) Organization: PHASE Systems MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 22:58:05 EST Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,aus.computers.ibm-pc