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I had asked for help a while ago on my IBM-PC XT under "Hard disk woes and PS/2
Question" There were a few replies and since the last reference to my
question died just a while ago I am trying to summarize what advice I received.

THANKS to all who responded!! Please note that I have tried to edit some replies
even though I have been appreciative of each and every one - especially
the onesthat refer to my rather silly question on how to post properly :)
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#1

     From: Stephen Trier <trier@SCL.CWRU.Edu>

$ I can answer three of your questions.  (That is, the three easier ones.)
$    In rn, you can post a new message by going to the end of the newsgroup..
$    The PS/2 problem is an error diagnostic message. On a Pakcard-Bell AT clone
$    e,301 means a video error, I believe. Check your manual in the "POST" 
                ^^^^^^^^^^^ In my case IBM-PC XT it was a keyboard error....

$ Self Test section.  The diagnostic messages should mostly be there.  IBM seems
$ to reserve a few, just for surprise's sake.
$    And as for the PC...  I can't tell you what's wrong with the CTRL-ALT-DEL
$ sequence, but I think I can tell you what's funny with the hard drive.  Check
$ the floppy-disk jumpers on the motherboard, and I think you'll find that they
$ are set for three drives.  This is just an educated guess, so it's probably
$ wrong, but you might want to try anyway.
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ tragedy has struck before that.
  you can by anwering my next posting. I don't wanna clutter or
  make one posting too long.
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#2

     From sigma@pawl.rpi.edu Fri Feb 16 13:24:05 1990
$ It sounds like you might have the wrong jumper setting on the drive select
$ jumper on the drive.  Look for two parallel rows of pins with a small piece
$ of plastic connecting two pins.  (On the drive's frame or circuit board.)
$ Try moving it to DS0 or DS1, depending on which it's not on.
$ Also, you shouldn't run any drive larger than 20Meg with only 63.5W - if
        this is the best advice I have had      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        but I ran into a snag trying to replace power supply. Please read
        (anybody) next message and HELP if you can.

$ you ever have any problems (unreliable writes, failed seeks, etc.), look
$ into CompuAdd or some similar place - they sell 150W supplies for about ...
$ Boot code error xx 301 indicates that the keyboard isn't present, or has
$ Hope this helps,
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ sure did! Thanks.

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        Thanks also to the net posters... fischer@milton.u.washington.edu