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failure to boot
Name: marc williams Date: July 5, 2003 at 09:46:25 Pacific OS: win xp pro CPU/Ram: athlon 1800 xp - 1280 ddr
Comment:
Hi all..
I recently had a new mother board installed.. same as previous version..but now i can't boot from my hard drive. I get the BIOS screen up and it says " Searching for boot record from IDE-0..OK" and thats it. I don't get the option to boot in safe mode. I test my hard drive in a different pc and it works fine.. Any thoughts on this??
Name: Hooner13 Date: July 5, 2003 at 10:42:14 Pacific
Reply:
Marc williams? as in big Wilf? or do we have another Marc Williams???
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Response Number 2
Name: wawadave Date: July 5, 2003 at 11:01:10 Pacific
Reply:
hello dose the hard drive allready have an o/s instald? this may be a problem. is bios set to auto detct hard drives. and check over its other settings and check all jumpers and wires on mobo are set properly.
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