Hi, I have a very strange problem with my computer.
Whenever I turn my computer on after it has been off for a few hours, the Windows XP loading time is very long. It keeps loading for more than a minute at the Windows XP logo with the blue srolling bar and finally comes to the login screen...
There is no "Intel ICH5R Setup Utility" and ALT-F2 brings me into the AWARDFLASH utility(which is for flashing the BIOS). What setup utility do you mean?
I did press F6 and install the SATA drivers. My system has absolutely no problems finding the hard disk, I can partition and format it in the XP setup. I just cant seem to get it to boot from the hard disk. It boots fine in another computer just not in mine.
I reseted the CMOS and have the exact settings you described and it still keeps giving me the "Disk Read Error" whenever it tries to boot from the HD.
I tried installing windows XP on a PATA disk and it worked perfectly. It just doesnt work with the SATA disk. All the BIOS settings are set the...
I bought a Pentium 4 system with an ABIT AI7 motherboard last week. But unfortunately it doesn't work. The problem is that my system won't boot from my hard disk, which is a Seagate SATA 160GB. I try to install windows XP pro and when the setup program reboots the system to get into the...
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