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Wierd bios drive detection problem

  • 25-03-2004 12:30am
    #1
    Dar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 763 ✭✭✭


    For some reason my bios is sometimes unable to detect my secondary drives (cd-rw & dvd) at boot, ie bios starts up normally, stalls for a while, and displays secondary pri/slave not found.

    If I ctrl-alt-del the drives are detected straight away (with no changes to settings). It's been like this for the last 2 days. The drives work perfectly if detected so I don't think its a psu problem - at least not an obvious one.

    Anyone have any ideas what might be causing this?


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  • #2
    Mac daddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,942 ✭✭✭Mac daddy


    What type of bios?
    Any hardware changes recently made?
    Bios flashed?


  • #3
    Dar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 763 ✭✭✭Dar


    Dell bios, havnt flashed it in about 6 months.

    Installed a new hd (same model as the one that was used in the box previously) about 3 weeks ago, problem started a week after. I've checked the connections on the ide cables - and swapped out the cable the cdrom drives were connected to with a brand spanking new one i had lying around. I've tried swapping out the hard with a spare 250mb drive, and no change.

    As I said, once booted after a successful detect there are no performance problems whatsoever.

    Im stumped tbh :(


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