Re: Drives Configuration
From: Cari \(MS-MVP\) (Newsgroups1_at_coribright.com)
Date: 03/24/04
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 10:52:58 -0800
What happens when you go into the BIOS and set the Primary Slave setting to
NONE.
Cari
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"David Routh" <david.routh@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:eQlJftcEEHA.3976@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> 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 Primary 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 on master
> CD-Rom as master on IDE 2, jumper on master
> CD-RW as slave on IDE 2, jumper on slave
> 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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