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Name: Xavier Courbot
Date: September 23, 2004 at 14:18:04 Pacific
OS: XPHomeSP1
CPU/Ram: 2.13GHz/1GB
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I have to turn my comp on and off at least 30 times before Windows start. When it starts , evrything runs normal way and i can restart without any problems.
I went into BIOS and set detailed boot progress display on and it shows it freezes at the "searching IDE devices..." step , and at this moment pressing F1 just displays "entering set up..." (or sumthin like that) and nothing more . Any other F* key dont work neither . I run a chkdsk /f and nothing semt weird .
Any idea welcomed , im just lost and dont know what to do !



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Name: ham30
Date: September 23, 2004 at 15:03:08 Pacific
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If you have a CD/DVD drive, try disconnecting it.


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Response Number 2
Name: Xavier Courbot
Date: September 23, 2004 at 16:44:43 Pacific
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i ll try that, but i already put hdd on first device boot.


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