Partitions on Dell Computer

[Daave]

Bill, in your Plain Text settings, is your Message Format MIME by any
chance? That's my guess. If you change it to Uuencode, the attribution
quotes will probably appear when you reply to a post like Earl's (since
you are using OE QuoteFix).

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Whaaat? I've used OE since day one and never seen such a problem, MIME or
otherwise. MIME "type" has nothing to do with it, I'm pretty much
certain. Settings, malware or file corruption are much more likely
reasons.

It's a relatively longstanding and common problem, shared by both OE and
Windows Mail. It's not a setting, malware or corruption and it is related
to MIME types, specifically MIME Quoted/Printable. Windows Live Mail does
handle it properly, but I don't like its interface.
..
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/why.htm#replychars
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Why does OE forget to add reply characters to some of my replies?

If the message to which you are replying was sent to you as MIME/Quoted
Printable, the text of the message is formatted as paragraphs, not as lines,
and therefore no reply characters will be added. This is a design issue, not
a bug. It is simply the way Microsoft mail programs have always dealt with
MIME/Quoted Printable.
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[Earl Partridge]

Thanks for all the replies to my original request. The owner of the machine
was
about ready to toss it and buy another computer. If it contained anything
really
critical, I definitely would not have done my "experimentations". But, now
she
has her machine working again at practically no cost. Probably good for
another 5 to 6 years.

Further experimenting... the jumper has been in Cable Select and Master with
no positive results. I finally plugged in a second HD to do a backup and
that
prompt for F1 no longer appears... boots normally. I realize the Dell
Restore
capability is gone. I had an OLD 520 Meg HD that I left in the machine.

I'll probably try the last two suggestions of removing the battery and
clearing the
event logs.

Earl

 

[MAP]

Your last post confirms what I was thinking,your second hard drive port
is enabled in the BIOS, and installing the second HD bypassed the prompt for
f1.
This happened to me just last week when I cloned my HD, removing my old HD
after the clone gave me the f1 prompt. If you take this other HD out in the
future windmap is on the same page as I am set your bios to default (removing
the battery will do this).
Good Luck


Mike Pawlak

 

[Earl Partridge]

OK, I disconnected that 2nd HD, removed the battery. In Setup, I showed the
Primary Slave OFF (not there). Still prompts with F1. I'm happy with that
small
HD being left there to eliminate the F1 prompt, but willing to try other
ideas.
Earl

 

[Bill in Co.]

Bill, in your Plain Text settings, is your Message Format MIME by any
chance?

It's Uuencode.

 

[Daave]

It's Uuencode.

So much for that theory...

One last thought:

Tools | Options | Read | Read all messages in plain text... is that
checked?

 

[Bill in Co.]

So much for that theory...

One last thought:

Tools | Options | Read | Read all messages in plain text... is that
checked?

Nope. But I don't think I want it to be, either.
(I mean, why limit yourself - that would be pretty limiting)

 

[windmap]

Try Clearing NV RAM
Turn on all the three "Num" "Caps" "Scroll" locks in keyboard when you are
in BIOS Setup main screen.
Then press
ALT + E
ALT + F
ALT + B
Computer will restart itself performing Automatic IDE configuration.

 

[Daave]

Nope. But I don't think I want it to be, either.
(I mean, why limit yourself - that would be pretty limiting)

I officially give up. In order for OE QuoteFix to work on systems
post-SP1, that box needs to be unchecked (and yours is unchecked as it
should be). And since yours is unchecked, OE QuoteFix should be able to
correct OE's deficiency in responding to the type of post Earl made.

Oh, well!

 

[Gerry]

Daave

FYI I also use QuoteFix with OE6 and I got a vertical bar by way of
indentaion rather the more normal >>>> No idea why though!


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Bill in Co.]

I officially give up. In order for OE QuoteFix to work on systems
post-SP1, that box needs to be unchecked (and yours is unchecked as it
should be). And since yours is unchecked, OE QuoteFix should be able to
correct OE's deficiency in responding to the type of post Earl made.

Oh, well!

But it's only happened on a few occasions, right? At least that's my
understanding, as up to now I've had no complaints.