Booting to a network Windows XP Pro

[Guest]

Helping my brother with his new computer, the computer works for awhile, then at startup sometimes it starts loading to a window that says it is booting to a network and sits there with a spinning cursor. Would this be that it is not recognizing the harddrive? Possible hd problem? it is a 2 month old wd 120 gig. Could it be the IDE cable ? Any suggestions would be very helpful. Also what is the proper boot device order ? Is it CD Rom then Harddrive ? Or should the harddrive be the first boot device? Thank you.

 

[Ross Durie]

Yes, yes. Some BIOSes will default to network interface card boot if no
other boot device can be found, i.e., hard drive is dead.

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Ross

Helping my brother with his new computer, the computer works for awhile,

then at startup sometimes it starts loading to a window that says it is
booting to a network and sits there with a spinning cursor. Would this be
that it is not recognizing the harddrive? Possible hd problem? it is a 2
month old wd 120 gig. Could it be the IDE cable ? Any suggestions would
be very helpful. Also what is the proper boot device order ? Is it CD Rom
then Harddrive ? Or should the harddrive be the first boot device? Thank
you.

 

[Guest]

Yes I have this problem as well, What I did was change the bootup sequince in my Bios to just the harddrive, but now everytime I boot up I have to hit the reset button or it say's it can't find the harddrive. I also have a wd 120, also what kind of motherboard do you have?

 

[Guest]

interisting! I have the msi 865pe neo2-p with the 865 chipset as well

 

[Hilary Karp]

Download the drive diagnostic utility for the Western Digital web site.
This will create a floppy disk. Boot from the floppy and run a
diagnostic on the drive.