-=PCTechTalk=- Fw: How a computer boots up

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger"
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:03 AM
Subject: How a computer boots up


> Just in from ShellCity...
>
> http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-computers-boot-up
>
> This may be the best explanation of the boot process that I've ever seen.
>
> Back in the days of Windows 3.1 I tried to add an audio sequence to the 
> AutoExec.bat file that would count off the events, One, Two, etc., using a 
> set of wave files from the software included with an old modem. By 
> listening to the count-down you could tell where the boot sequence was in 
> the string of events that transpired during boot. If it skipped a number 
> you had a problem. Unfortunately I never got it to work!
> If anyone else ever did I'd sure like to hear about it.
>
> ------------
> "From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with 
> which I will not put."
>  - Sir Winston Churchill 


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