Boot Disk Priorty Changed on its own???

[Dirk Puslich]

I have an Asus P4P-800 running XP with a Seagate Barracude 120GB
Serial ATA drive as the main drive and a Maxtor 30GB IDE drive as a
secondary disk.

For some reason the boot device priorty changed so that the computer
was trying to boot off of the Maxtor rather than the Seagate drive
where the Windows installation disk was.

I received a "NTLDR" missing error.

I fixed the problem by going into the BIOS and seeing that the Seagate
was no longer in the boot device priority and putting it back in.

I haven't touched the BIOS for months, so anyone know how this could
have happened?

Thanks

 

[Mike Brearley]

Does that board have dual bios? If so, maybe it fealt there was a problem
with the active one, and loaded up the backup.

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Posted 'as is'. If there are any spelling and/or grammar mistakes, they
were a direct result of my fingers and brain not being synchronized or my
lack of caffeine.

Mike Brearley