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pjhjones
I have a WINXP machine. The other day it was reported to me that it was
having boot up problems. (this machine should almost never be shut down)
I went and attempted to boot the machine. I found that it asks if I want to
boot in normal or safe mode. I select normal. It acts like it wants to boot
shows the windows logo, flashes all the data and then asks again if I want to
boot in normal or safe mode.
If I select safe mode if shows a bunch of stuff across the screen.
I went into the BIOS and found that it says that there is no Master IDE
found and that the hard drive is set as slave. I can not change this in the
BIOS.
I took a look at the hard drive and the jumper is set to Master and it is
using the last plug on the ribbon cable. Same as the other three computers in
the room that work just fine.
having boot up problems. (this machine should almost never be shut down)
I went and attempted to boot the machine. I found that it asks if I want to
boot in normal or safe mode. I select normal. It acts like it wants to boot
shows the windows logo, flashes all the data and then asks again if I want to
boot in normal or safe mode.
If I select safe mode if shows a bunch of stuff across the screen.
I went into the BIOS and found that it says that there is no Master IDE
found and that the hard drive is set as slave. I can not change this in the
BIOS.
I took a look at the hard drive and the jumper is set to Master and it is
using the last plug on the ribbon cable. Same as the other three computers in
the room that work just fine.