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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   
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