I agree with bmartin's last post. From here Quote edited for emphasis. The problem occurs during POST, and computer functions normally after...
I wonder. That's an interesting thought. The mbr is originally written by the fdisk (or similar) program after the bios has detected the...
I believe the bios will find a HDD whether formatted or not, since it must find the disk in order for you to format it. Formatting is irrelevant,...
Get a 133 pci card? martinr121, You can return your psi card within 30 days for an exchange - you need to call JDR's 800 number for an RMA#....
Need bios update? I assume you did the manual hdd check (find) in the bios and it was quick? No delay? Suggest you check for a bios upgrade....
Another suggestion. First save c:\boot.ini and ntldr and ntdetect.com files to a safe place. Then since win98se knows nothing of XP, I would...
Confusing? I see that here it says but that doesn't agree with what I found on the dell site. :)
Interesting? This thread may interest you.
Where's the delay? This is a bios problem so you need to know at what point exactly does the delay occur, in other words what is the bios looking...
Make one non-active. A hard disk must be "active" to be bootable, and this can be turned off by fdisk in a command prompt at boot-up (hold ctrl...
Simpler? I think a simpler (in windows9x) way is to boot to DOS (F8 > command prompt) and run chkdsk c: /f at the prompt. substituting the...
ATA100 is very satisfactory. Yes to this and to the next question as well. However this is a negligable difference, and not worth fretting...
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