External SCSI drive hijacks XP startup

[Guest]

After a failed attempt to recreate a system drive from a Norton Ghost image
stored on an external scsi disc, i have encountered a situation where, if I
have the scsi turned on at startup, the process comes to an abrupt end
immeadiately after the intitial XP screen ( with the ping-ponging blue dots).

When the screen blanks out at the point where you'd expect the log-in
screen to appear, the scsi drive begins talking to itself and to the other
discs in the scsi chain.
No futher progress is made in starting XP except for one or two attempts at
reboot apparently instigated by the feral scsi drive.

If I leave this disc out of the chain the rest of the scsci drives behave
perfectly and the system boots up as normal.

Any Suggestions?

 

[Ghostrider]

After a failed attempt to recreate a system drive from a Norton Ghost image
stored on an external scsi disc, i have encountered a situation where, if I
have the scsi turned on at startup, the process comes to an abrupt end
immeadiately after the intitial XP screen ( with the ping-ponging blue dots).

When the screen blanks out at the point where you'd expect the log-in
screen to appear, the scsi drive begins talking to itself and to the other
discs in the scsi chain.
No futher progress is made in starting XP except for one or two attempts at
reboot apparently instigated by the feral scsi drive.

If I leave this disc out of the chain the rest of the scsci drives behave
perfectly and the system boots up as normal.

Any Suggestions?

Double check the boot sequence in bios setup. The sequence might have put
the SCSI controller and the external HD attached to it as the first boot
device. The fix would be to make the proper boot drive as the first boot
device. This situation might have happened whilst attempting to boot and
create a new system drive from the external SCSI drive.

 

[Newbie Coder]

You need to restart your computer
Press either F2 or DEL when computer starts to enter the BIOS
In the BOOT CONFIGURATION section remove the SCSI device & change to Hard
Drive as Primary boot device
Press F10 (save), save changes & exit

Your machine will reboot & hopefully that will change the boot sequence for
you

Any problems, post back

 

[Guest]

Thanks, but I've already checked the boot sequence and it still points to my
c drive as the startup - the scsi is not listed at all in the sequence.

The strtup sequence actually BEGINS form the c drive, but when the scsi
takes over the system drive just sits there winking feebly at me.

Other suggestions?

 

[Ghostrider]

Thanks, but I've already checked the boot sequence and it still points to my
c drive as the startup - the scsi is not listed at all in the sequence.

The strtup sequence actually BEGINS form the c drive, but when the scsi
takes over the system drive just sits there winking feebly at me.

Other suggestions?

Take a more detailed look at the bios setup screens. There may be an
additional line that tells the bios to boot the computer from a non-IDE
device. If present, it will bypass the boot sequence that is set into
bios setup. Someone might be able to give a better answer if the make
of the bios and motherboard/model are known.

 

[smlunatick]

After a failed attempt to recreate a system drive from a Norton Ghost image
stored on an external scsi disc, i have encountered a situation where, if I
have the scsi turned on at startup, the process comes to an abrupt end
immeadiately after the intitial XP screen ( with the ping-ponging blue dots).

When the screen blanks out at the point where you'd expect the log-in
screen to appear, the scsi drive begins talking to itself and to the other
discs in the scsi chain.
No futher progress is made in starting XP except for one or two attempts at
reboot apparently instigated by the feral scsi drive.

If I leave this disc out of the chain the rest of the scsci drives behave
perfectly and the system boots up as normal.

Any Suggestions?

SCSI Host adapters all have "embedded" BIOS chips that "over-ride" the
normal PC boot sequence. You need to look in the PCs BIOS and make
sure that: Priority boot to the built-in hadr drive ports. Then,
access the SCSI Host adapter BIOS and turn off boot controls.

 

[Noncompliant]

SCSI Host adapters all have "embedded" BIOS chips that "over-ride" the
normal PC boot sequence. You need to look in the PCs BIOS and make
sure that: Priority boot to the built-in hadr drive ports. Then,
access the SCSI Host adapter BIOS and turn off boot controls.

If you're insinuating all scsi adapters have a built-in bios, not true.
Most of which with a bios are capable of booting from those on scsi id 0 or
1, and some can boot from scsi cdroms as well.

While it could be a nefarious boot to scsi problem (doubtful), it could also
be a polling problem on the scsi chain by XP.

 

[smlunatick]

If you're insinuating all scsi adapters have a built-in bios, not true.
Most of which with a bios are capable of booting from those on scsi id 0 or
1, and some can boot from scsi cdroms as well.

While it could be a nefarious boot to scsi problem (doubtful), it could also
be a polling problem on the scsi chain by XP.
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That is not what I insinuating! The OP is stating that the SCSI is
taking over. This "usually" may indicate that the SCSI host adapter
has a BIOS with boot options. It is a hard drive that is taking over
and not a CDROM.