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|    Shadow to charington@nowhere.com    |
|    Re: Seriously weird Boot problems with X    |
|    10 Oct 14 19:45:17    |
      From: Sh@dow.br              On Fri, 10 Oct 2014 17:46:38 -0400, charington@nowhere.com wrote:              >I connected it last week.... It crashed a short time later.       >Since then, it starts the Windows XP screen, and runs a long time on       >that screen, then goes blank.... and it's dead       >I've found that there is some kind of conflict with one of the hard       >drives.       >       >C: and D: are standard hard drives connected to the MotherBoard as       >Master (C:) and Slave (D:)       >       >There is an E: partition for recovery, although I can't seem to locate       >a "Recovery" disk       >       >F: is a CD drive       >G: is a DVD drive       >       >H: is a SCSI drive       >I: is a SATA drive....       >       >I know... weird configuration, but it worked fine till recently....       >       >Now I find that with everything connected... it locks up with a blank       >screen after a long time in the Windows XP screen with the progress       >bar.               You probably forgot to disable Windows updates and got a bad       driver for the SCSI drive. Try finding the original driver, or rolling       back.        I have not updated since SP3. Everything works fine.        []'s       --       Don't be evil - Google 2004       We have a new policy - Google 2012              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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