Casper Gielen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm recently added a second harddisk to an old 386 and I experience a
> strange problem. Whenever I power-on the machine it starts POSTing,
> checks memory, displays WAIT and then stops. If I press Reset it starts
> over and works perfectly and keeps working until it's powered off. [...]
I had similar problems in the past with a hard drive that took a while to
come up to speed, and a PC that was too fast (relatively speaking) booting
up. Once the DRIVE is up (as opposed to the system), a reset doesn't cause
it to shut down, so the 2nd boot is fine. Only when the drive needs to spin
up is the problem apparent. I assume this is what you're experiencing.
I solved it by setting the BIOS to do a full memory check. I never thought
having extra memory would fix THAT sort of problem, but it worked well
enough. The drive has since been retired, so I haven't dealt with this for a
long time.
Good luck!
- Bob
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