Re: Booting up question
- From: "John Smith" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 17:08:52 -0000
"Lil' Dave" <spamyourself@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"John Smith" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message===============
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=============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.
Ah...found in bios settings..
"Legacy USB Support" ..switched that off and all ok...do you have that in
your Award setup?...in mine its under Integrated peripherals. ...dunno if
I'm loosing anything by switching it off?
No, I don't have that setting in my Award bios on my current PC which is
older that yours, I have a P4 2.4 GHz. I did have that on a much older
PC. It was for providing legacy support for mice and keyboard and did
flaky things like you've seen. The setting was too generic. I had to use
a PS/2 keyboard to make the selection, then revert to a USB keyboard for
instance at next boot. Yours appears to serve some other USB generic
functions. But if it doesn't, and you're using a USB keyboard now, you
may have problems using that keyboard to enter the bios after the
disabling.
In reference to USB in my Award bios, its divided into 2 sections for USB.
In the Advanced setting section for the 3 potential boot devices, in
reference to USB, I have the following potential selections:
USB FDD
USB ZIP
USB CDROM
USB HDD
In the Integrated Peripherals section:
USB Controller
USB 2.0 Controller
USB Keyboard Support
USB Mouse Support
OK, thanks Dave.J
.
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