I have 2 Seagate drives, one with XP installed and the other without. The P4 system is approaching 4 years old and has seen alot of use (the HD's are fairly new though). With both drives attached, the system posts followed by a boot drive error. When trying to access the BIOS, it is lagged (maybe 1 or 2 minutes) when trying to bring it up. When the BIOS finally does come up, both drives are not detectable. Same issue occurs with only the 2nd drive attached.
With the XP drive attached, access to BIOS is normal and computer boots normally. However twice an odd thing happened. While watching TV with my tuner, the monitor turned off (like the video input was disabled) but sound kept playing normally. The computer did not respond to commands (such as ctrl-alt-del restart, volume control with usb keyboard, or channel changing with remote). It was like the entire system shut down except the tv audio.
I'm running out of ideas for troubleshooting to determine where the problem is. Any ideas?
With the XP drive attached, access to BIOS is normal and computer boots normally. However twice an odd thing happened. While watching TV with my tuner, the monitor turned off (like the video input was disabled) but sound kept playing normally. The computer did not respond to commands (such as ctrl-alt-del restart, volume control with usb keyboard, or channel changing with remote). It was like the entire system shut down except the tv audio.
I'm running out of ideas for troubleshooting to determine where the problem is. Any ideas?
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