Hi everybody,
need some expert advice.
This is my setup
PIII 850(100fsb), Abit BE6 mobo (latest bios), 640mb PC100 SDRAM, Quantum fireball 18gig HDD, 250W PS. running W2K.
The problem:
Occasionaly whenever system boots it hangs with HDD led on (remember this happenes almost every 2nd boot.)
PC loads post, checks memory & UDMA66 bios screen appears reconizes the HDD properly but when Win2K needs to be loaded it stalls.
In my bios, masters & slaves are all set to "none" because my highpoint 366 ide controller takes care of this.
But as of now if I try to set the bios to reconize the drives (setting master/slaves to "auto") all drives are reconized except my main drive (quantum), and seems the 1st cd takes over as role of primary master even though it is clearly a secondary master attached to ide with my cd burner.
I've tested my HDD, repaired MBR but still stalls on load.
I doubt its a W2K problem since when it loads it has no problems, everything works as it should - device manager normal. No viruses either.
Need help!
thanks
need some expert advice.
This is my setup
PIII 850(100fsb), Abit BE6 mobo (latest bios), 640mb PC100 SDRAM, Quantum fireball 18gig HDD, 250W PS. running W2K.
The problem:
Occasionaly whenever system boots it hangs with HDD led on (remember this happenes almost every 2nd boot.)
PC loads post, checks memory & UDMA66 bios screen appears reconizes the HDD properly but when Win2K needs to be loaded it stalls.
In my bios, masters & slaves are all set to "none" because my highpoint 366 ide controller takes care of this.
But as of now if I try to set the bios to reconize the drives (setting master/slaves to "auto") all drives are reconized except my main drive (quantum), and seems the 1st cd takes over as role of primary master even though it is clearly a secondary master attached to ide with my cd burner.
I've tested my HDD, repaired MBR but still stalls on load.
I doubt its a W2K problem since when it loads it has no problems, everything works as it should - device manager normal. No viruses either.
Need help!
thanks
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