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DeskPro won't boot from floppy.



 
 
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Old October 28th 03, 06:21 AM
Spam Buster
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"Martin Rogoff" wrote in message
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| No, sorry, you're wrong. The CMOS settings were never kept in the
| Setup Partition on any machine of ANY generation. You could run the
| software that resided in the Setup Partition from diskettes without a
| hard drive in the machine or without a Setup Partition on the hard
| drive and it would save the information in CMOS just the same.

You're right, I'm wrong. Don't know what I was smoking when I wrote that...
must have been good stuff... ;-)


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Old October 31st 03, 10:00 PM
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i havent seen anyone mention hitting f-8 or f-10, to go into setup.
 




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