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Article #12032Re: >>French boot error message ???
From: pete and/or kristen
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 00:00
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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