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(solved)Why booting on stops at intel sign?
Samson:
I find that the easiest way of setting the jumpers on PATA IDE HDDs is to use an 80 wire ribbon cable and set the jumpers on both drives to cable select (CSEL). This way the only variable is the position on the cable where the drive is connected. Blue connects to the primary IDE channel on the motherboard, Black for the master, grey for the slave.
Shane:
My god, that didnt even cross my mind. :tongue:
I am so use to sata drives now I didnt even pay attention it was a IDE 25 pin connection drive, and yes if the jumpers are not set properly it can cause the bios to lock up.
Shane
Samson:
--- Quote from: Shane on February 18, 2015, 09:56:50 pm ---My god, that didnt even cross my mind. :tongue:
I am so use to sata drives now I didnt even pay attention it was a IDE 25 pin connection drive, and yes if the jumpers are not set properly it can cause the bios to lock up.
Shane
--- End quote ---
Some of us still live in a "Legacy World" :shy:
I actually picked up a few PATA HDDs recently, new but old stock, for a few quid each....Seagates and WDs, 8MB caches so even a slight performance boost too :wink:
jraju:
Hi, Shane, Boggins and Samson
The curious part of the puzzle is not over. When i just check with other computer, the hard disk is recognised. It boots with the already installed windows installation and i could access all the drives and files. but , hooked at my friends computer, it still hangs on intel sign. So the problem is not bad cable, memory but i think that bios may be the thing to took out. It is seagate, an it recognises in other computer. Now for sure, the hard disk is alive and had no problem.
I checked the other computer bios. It is intel , but have different menus. But other hard drives are detected with the same cable and memory and bios, except this one. What would be the problem? Is it not strange. Could be bios be updated with downloads or one should flash it?
jraju:
pl find enclosed bios settings.
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