RE: How do I slow or pause boot screen?

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From: thepeartree (thepeartree_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/31/04 

Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:49:02 -0800

I really recommend that you check over several things. First, check the
jumpering on the drives, if you're not using cable select. Having both drives
jumpered as masters on controller 0 can make things a real mess. Then check
to see that the drive cables are tight. Don't chance it, though. Take the
cables off, make sure that they're in the sockets right and reseat them. If
neither of those does the trick, then try removing the controllers from the
Device Manager and rebooting (power-off boot!) to let Windows redetect them.

In the future, if you want to know what is where, try using a product called
Belarc Advisor. It's free and does a pretty good job of listing hardware
installed in a system.

"Shepard Tate" wrote:

> Searched here as I thought it would have already been asked. Maybe my
> search terms were not exactly correct to find it.
>
> I want to slow the boot screen temporarily so that I have time to read
> the messages. I knew how to do it years ago in DOS. How do I do this
> in XP?
>
> One of the things I want to see is the IDE connections shown at boot
> up. It may just be an XP bug, but on our machines, device manager
> shows more than one device at 0(0).
>
> For example, one machine physically has the hard drive as master on 0;
> cd rom as slave on 0; and cd burner as master on 1. I am sure of
> these connections and settings as I did them myself. However XP shows
> the HD at 0(0) AND the burner at 0(0). Impossible, why does it do
> this?
>

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