[pchelpers] Re: STRANGE PROBLEM

Hardware latchup, possibly. Also old, dirty connections cause this type
of thing. Progressive static damage can have similar symptoms. Latchup
is usually cures by removing the power so hardware latches can reset
themselves.
Billyus wrote:
> 
> Hello all.........you will no doubt remember that a few weeks ago, I
> posted a mail describing a fault in that my PC on boot up told me that
> there was a system disk failure and I couldn't run f disk etc as it
> couldn't find a primary disk and so forth. Some of you sent
> suggestions like loose or dirty ribbon cables.  Well it happened again
> today but all I did this time was to pull the  mains power supply plug
> and then replace it to restore the power and then boot
> up...........and it did.  So can this help you to think of anything
> else that it may be?
> 
> Billy

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