Cheung,
You must try to format the hard disk first. A proper diskette exists for
this purpose. Simply inserts the diskette and presses the small button of
reset, located in the behind part of the sequencer. Try it before to install
the software. Nevertheless, you can use a keyboard, if you want. There's an
input located in the behind part of the sequencer, below the button of
reset, where you can plug a keyboard.
Good luck!
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Prof. Ricardo Bastos Cunha, Researcher
Brazilian Center for Protein Research and Services
Laboratory of Protein Chemistry and Biochemistry
Departament of Cell Biology
University of Brasilia
Brasilia - DF Brazil
CEP 70910-900
Tel: (61)307-2142
Fax: (61)272-4548
e-mail: rbcunha@unb.br
http://www.lbqp.unb.br/cbsp/
http://www.lbqp.unb.br/ricardo/
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----- Original Message -----
From: Ed Cheung <ECheung@biomira.com>
To: Recipients of ABRF List <abrf@aecom.yu.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 9:49 PM
Subject: ABI 477 Sequencer
We have an ABI 477 sequencer in our lab. It was moth-balled for over a
year and until recently we tried to determine if it is still
operational. This is the first difficulty we have encountered.
The computer will boot up from the hard drive and try to launch the
application software and ceased. Try to boot it up from the system disk
and it will fail reading drive A and give the standard DOS message like
Abort, Retry or... Without a keyboard input, there is not much a user
can do.
Since it is an old instrument, I don't know if it worth having the
service engineer from PE Biosystem to try to fix it or should I consider
getting rid of it.
May be someone can give us some pointers on what the problem might be
and is there a quick fix for it?
Ed Cheung,
Manager, Analytical Development,
Biomira Inc.
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