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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
>
>
Paul