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To: Sonny McWilliams who wrote (22809)	2/19/1999 7:53:00 AM
From: musea	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27012

Sonny, I think a lot of us on this thread have a significant chunk of Dell. Your drive problem might be resolved by a power cycle. The reason Win95 doesn't see your other drives is because it was "not present" at the time Win95 loaded. There are a couple of possibilities I can think of: 1)Your drive somehow got disabled or misconfigured in CMOS setup or 2)your drive didn't spin up properly. 1) can be solved by entering your setup program (at power-up, before Win95 rears its head) and making sure that the second drive is configured properly. If you are running an old version of Win95 (before OSR 2) you had to install a device driver to have access to the whole drive. It's unlikely that there would be a problem with that driver - all that has to happen is for that drive to be seen at all and then the driver will handle everything. 2) can be solved by a power cycle (turn off power, turn back on) sometimes accompanied by a tap (I know, it sounds gruesome). I had one drive I had to take out of the chassis and give a tap on the side to get it spinning again, each time I turned on the computer. Solution one was to leave the computer on, but the ultimate solution was to get a new drive. I think that the market is nearly done with the tech selloff. The fact of options expiration is an artificial "force" to reckon with today, but by next Monday things should be back to normal. My guess is that the techs trade sideways for a while, though, until people decide where to put their dollars they have kept on the sidelines during this period. I will go out further on the limb and say that I think those dollars will go back into techs. Where else are you going to get those high returns? -musea

To: Sonny McWilliams who wrote (22809)	2/19/1999 8:37:00 AM
From: William Hunt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27012

Sonny ---Musea has answered the computer issue in better detail than I could have . I had a similar problem when I had added a new modem to my box two years a go . I ended up resolving it by reloading WINDOWS 95 because it was not recognizing the new modem with the plug and play feature to add new equipment . It did not come up in the safe mode but came up with a normal screen recognizing the new modem from US ROBOTICS ( 28 K ) . My understanding of the safe mode is that it is to protect the operating system when there are corrupt files or something that is incompatible with the operating system . I would try to reload WINDOWS again and possibly reseat the hard drives to ensure that they have a chance to be recognize by the operating system . Thanks for your response to the question about the market . I feel comfortable with the stocks I own even though they are at a high multiple . But they both have high forward looking high P/E's because both will grow in to the ranges ( CSCO and LU ) over the next year . Telecom and broadband will reward us well over the next three years . BEST WISHES BILL