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RE: Problem with startup of 560



On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 23:07:25 -0500, Dennis Pantazis wrote:

>1.  Disable hibernation via the powerswitch if its enabled.  If enabled it 
>replaces power cycling with hibernation.
>
>2.   Is it the Windoze hourglass or the IBM BIOS hourglass?  To get it, 
>press F1 at boot, so you can run the diagnostics etc... there is a way to 
>reset the hardware settings, but i forget.  Best to call TP Support.
>
On the 701, you hold both mouse buttons down until your OS starts,
and the options will be reset.

>3.  Are you at the latest BIOS revision?  Go to the IBM TP support pages to 
>find out.
>
>4.  You might want to try the PowerToys and KernelToy utilities from MS to 
>figure out your system.  One in particular is TweakUI.  It is a control 
>panel applette that allows you to get boot choices and function keys at 
>boot (Normal, Safe-Mode, Cmd prompt only, logged etc...).  Its good under 
>95 and supposedly NT-Intel.  (Thanks Dave Ross for pointing me to it).
>
Doesn't OS/2 and Linux already do that (just wondering)?

>Dennis
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