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JosephKK
Target platform Gigabyte GA-M55Plus-S3G (3.0) with Athlon64-X2 4600, 2x
1GB DDR2 RAM (800 MHz 128-bit), Linksys 10/100 NIC, on-board NIC (not
used), ATI 9250, on board sound, normal kbd and mouse, home network, WD
320 GB HD as IDE primary master (only), two DVD recorders on secondary
IDE, speakers, 17" display. Installed WinXP, install seemed to go OK,
but installed system would not boot without install CD in a DVD drive.
Tried several installs with both NTFS and FAT host partitions at the
beginning of the HD (no other partitions), still will not boot without
install CD. Downloaded bootable WD DataLifeGuard, and it found no
problems with HD. Ran memtest86 for hours, no problem found. Does not
matter if i install drivers from the driver disk. Installing Video
driver only improves performance. Installed Suse Linux 10.2, does not
boot that either. Here is the kicker, with the Suse install disk in a
DVD drive XP will boot. I sure would like to know what is going on.
Any suggestions?
JosephKK
1GB DDR2 RAM (800 MHz 128-bit), Linksys 10/100 NIC, on-board NIC (not
used), ATI 9250, on board sound, normal kbd and mouse, home network, WD
320 GB HD as IDE primary master (only), two DVD recorders on secondary
IDE, speakers, 17" display. Installed WinXP, install seemed to go OK,
but installed system would not boot without install CD in a DVD drive.
Tried several installs with both NTFS and FAT host partitions at the
beginning of the HD (no other partitions), still will not boot without
install CD. Downloaded bootable WD DataLifeGuard, and it found no
problems with HD. Ran memtest86 for hours, no problem found. Does not
matter if i install drivers from the driver disk. Installing Video
driver only improves performance. Installed Suse Linux 10.2, does not
boot that either. Here is the kicker, with the Suse install disk in a
DVD drive XP will boot. I sure would like to know what is going on.
Any suggestions?
JosephKK