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>Hello everyone, > >I got a 800CT by some coincidence. When I got it, the >installed Win98 would not start up. So I started it >from the floppy disk. No problem. I formatted the hard >disk and it worked. Then I made scan disk and it >showed me one "Bad Cluster" but apart from that >everything worked just fine. I went to sleep. > >The very next day the thing was not the same. When >trying to start, it displays the RAM settings and >shows a line that I can start the system configuration >program with F2, just after that it shows a line > >configuration of [Bridge Controller] > >it beeps for about half a minute or so, after that it >starts up but sloooooowly.... it will take probably 10 >minutes until it has finally started up DOS from the >floppy. > >What went wrong? Is there anything more damaged than >the one bad cluster of the hard disk? > >regards >Thomas

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