On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Bob George wrote:
| 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.
FWIW, I had a problem with my 586 at home, with it hanging on WAIT... at
every bootup. Removed the hard disk in desperation, and was going to put
it in another machine when I noticed that I had the jumper on it set to
Master and there was no Slave. Took it back home again, with the jumper
set to Single, and now all is dandy. Casper, did you check the jumpers on
those disks?
Regards
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Gregor J Jones mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boston MA
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