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Drive Configuration
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I have a small problem on boot up, 8 times out 10 it hangs on the post screen for approx 45 seconds at the 4th line, Auto Detecting Secondry Slave... Press F4 To Abort although nothing happens if I press F4, the other 2 times it goes straight through, beeps and boots. I think the problem is with the jumpers, if I take out my CD-RW and boot with just Hard drive in IDE 1 and CD-Rom in IDE2 it boots no problem every time, my set up at present is Maxtor Diamond max Hard Drive as master on IDE 1, jumper set to master CD-Rom as master on IDE 2, jumper set to master CD-RW as slave on IDE 2, jumper set to slave The bios says as above and all drives work Can anyone advise me as to best drive configuration and what the jumpers on each drive should be set at. Dave |
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"David Routh" wrote in message ...
Hi I have a small problem on boot up, 8 times out 10 it hangs on the post screen for approx 45 seconds at the 4th line, Auto Detecting Secondry Slave... Press F4 To Abort although nothing happens if I press F4, the other 2 times it goes straight through, beeps and boots. I think the problem is with the jumpers, if I take out my CD-RW and boot with just Hard drive in IDE 1 and CD-Rom in IDE2 it boots no problem every time, my set up at present is Maxtor Diamond max Hard Drive as master on IDE 1, jumper set to master CD-Rom as master on IDE 2, jumper set to master CD-RW as slave on IDE 2, jumper set to slave The bios says as above and all drives work Can anyone advise me as to best drive configuration and what the jumpers on each drive should be set at. Dave Have you tried these ? -- 1. Change the cable on IDE2 2. Set the jumpers to cable-select 3. Substitute the CD drives, esp. the CD-RW, with a known good one from another computer 4. Install the CD-RW in another computer -Zotin |
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