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Re: >>French boot error message ???

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From: pete and/or kristen
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 00:00
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Ben Hinton wrote:

> 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"

When I crashed the NT machine I used at work two years ago, I'd sometimes get
"la pantalla azul de la muerte" - a blue-screen in Spanish.
And when I close down Front Page Express (the free WYSIWYG HTML editor that
comes with IE, as if you didn't already know) it demandez moi, "Salvare le
modifiche a Untitiled Normal Page?"
They're not constructive, and not a suggestion.  But I just felt like posting
them.
p
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Subject: Re: >>French boot error message ???
Date: 1999/05/08
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