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enner100
Sharon said:On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 06:44:23 +0000, enner100 wrote:
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Pardon my ignorance but how would that cause my problems? What could
be in the memory that makes my pc hang for 2 minutes on reboot or
causes DOS not to be able to load on reboot?
I have never had a problem with rebooting any of my previous pc'
into
DOS?-
No idea. I was simply pointing out the difference between the tw
starts
(restart and cold start). Your own observations, as posted, note
distinct
difference in behavior.
Since it is apparent that something is "hanging over" with a restart
you
might want to add shutdown troubleshooting to what you're tryin
already. A
good resource for Windows shutdown problems, including specific XP
problems, can be found he
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm
I thought I had the PC sorted. I stripped the PC right down.
Reformatted the hard drive and added each device 1 by 1. I managed t
get it 1 hard drive, 512k memory, 2.2Ghz processor, DVD player, DV
writer, 3 PCI cards and a Geforce fx 5200 AGP card. Everything wa
working ok. The moment I added my second hard drive to the equation
got he boot up problems again. I have an external hard drive that
use for back up purposes. I tried installing that as the second har
drive and the PC was still stable and booting up ok.
So I assumed the second hard drive was at fault. I removed the secon
hard drive and put it back in my external hard drive case. I then wen
out and bought a new 120 GB hard drive.
I put the new hard drive in the PC as a slave (so I now have two 120 G
hard drives in the PC) The PC is now booting up ok but Windows ha
trouble finding
the DVD player and DVD writer. Sometimes when I boot up windows th
DVD player and DVD writer are showing. Next time I boot up time onl
one may be showing. The next time I boot up none may be showing etc.
I am now wondering if it may be the IDE controllers on the motherboar
at fault (the IDE cables are brand new)? All the problems seem to b
from IDE devices.
Could it be the hard drive? I have been installing XP on the same har
drive all during the problems (but it is a brand new hard drive)