Re: Booting up question
- From: "Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 07:21:34 -0600
"John Smith" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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black screen
Beep
Gigabyte screen again (where one can tab for Post or esc for enter
Bios
etc)
list of text
then Windows sequence
and finally all ok after 1.5 mins
any ideas why it should pull up the Gigabyte screen twice?
wonder if its to do with the motherboard, cpu or Operating system?
Do you have a dual bios?
Yes, but don't understand why both seem to be initiated at boot up
time?...
Since "del" key is used to enter the bios (ala Award bios), I would
suspect the vast majority of text is a list of found hardware listed in
column mode by description, manufacturer device id, and hardware irq
designation.
Exactly that.
Let's cut to the chase here. Disconnect any bootable devices, hard
drives, CD/DVD, floppy and so forth. Before executing XP boot, does the
PC do the same thing as before? Sequence of double bios execution that
is?
If so, has nothing to do with XP or anything involving handover from the
bios. Ancilliary hardware which can be minimized by using only
mobo/cpu/ram/video card if applicable and keyboard only.
If not, would suspect anything after POST. You need to try other
bootable media as well as your XP on a hard drive.
--
Dave
SUCCESS!!!!
Dave...u r the man...
...did what you suggested...disconnected all devices..
...ie 2 x hard drives, CD/DVD drive, printer, scanner, sound box and
external hard
drive....then switched on...all ok...
....reattached the devices one by one...
...and guess which was the culprit?
...the **** external hard drive!!
...unplugged the USB connected 500GB Seagate Free Agent external hard
drive
and all ok ie no double bios execution!!..
Thanks very much!
All I need to do now if determine why the Seagate is causing such and how
to
remedy. :-)
Cheers,
J
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Unless you're using some intermittent option to boot from the USB connected
500GB Seagate Free Agent external hard drive, there's no need to have it
energized while the PC is turned on. Wait till XP is totally; finished
booting, then turn on this external drive. While in XP use the safely
remove icon in the system tray to remove the external drive before turning
off or restarting XP, then physically turn off the external drive.
The problem may be a bios setting for boot drives. Can't tell from here.
If you have a list in bootable hard drives section of the bios settings,
move that drive to the bottom of the list. It has to be energized for the
bios to see it and put it on that list. That's how my Award bios works here
anyway in the Advanced settings section.
If you're in the habit having having that removable hard drive on all the
time, you should ask yourself why its removable to begin with... To safely
store data, move that data elsewhere, AND, ability to isolate it from your
daily usage and potential power surges. Leaving it on all the time
prevents the latter 2 assets from being assets.
--
Dave
CDOs are how we got here.
A modified version, new taxes in the future, is how Congress will get us
out?
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