Re: >>French boot error message ???

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From: Dick Perron
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 00:00

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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"


What type of system is it? The Compaq BIOS allows you to set the
language type you want for dialogue. Perhaps something got changed
inadvertently in the settings.


Dick Perron
dperr@gw.total-web.net
http://www.gw.total-web.net/~dperr/pc_hdwe.htm

Whether you think you can or you think you can't.........will happen.

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