-=> JIM HOLSONBACK wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 JH> Hello, Wayne.

 -=> WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to JASEN BETTS <=-

 JB> maybe your drive is going to sleep mode but is unable to wake up,
 JB> try changing the power saving setttings in the cmos.

 WC> Tried all permutations, no joy.
 WC> Lockups increased in frequency and it sometimes no longer makes
 WC> it through boot and POST.

 JH> Well, the symptoms seem to be getting worse and worse, but - -
 JH> Please clarify that. POST comes first.  If it isn't making it thru
 JH> POST, I think that sounds like your P.S.  If it gets thru POST but
 JH> won't boot, could still be either PS or HDD.  See other msg - - perhaps
 JH> you could try a known good HDD in there?

To tell the truth I'm not sure but think it locked before it got 
through POST last time, just the H.P. logo screen, no beep, no nothin.
Retired it to the desk after that.

 JH> If you have some old Norton Utilities there, one program which might be
 JH> useful is SYSINFO,  run from a FDD and with the "/DEMO"
switch, that
 JH> will repeatedly run some benchmark tests on both CPU and HDD.  I think
 JH> that HDD test wouldn't jeopardize the current contents of the HDD,
 JH> since I don't think it does any writing.

I've got the 16 bit version, won't work on a 32 bit FAT.
 
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