The bios continued to get worse, it just got to where it wouldn't recognize
my hdd half the time. I finally decided to get brave and flash it. My gosh,
it actually works correctly now. I guess something happened to it during the
transplant. ? Thnx, -s
On Wednesday 25 April 2001 08:42 am, you wrote:
> s wrote:
> > that uses a via VT82C/686A chipset and 133MHz FSB. The oses start and
> > run fine, once I get passed the bios. *Problem: the bios takes over
> > two minutes to boot and pass off to the os.* I can't find any
> > irregularities
>
> Some servers do that as well. I wouldn't be overly concerned except
> that you say that up until this point was booting quickly. Look for
> some sort of conflict.
>
> > master and only hdd on ide1, cdrom as master on secondary ide channel
> > with cdrw as slave. Basic floppy, and 512M of 133 ram (max allowable:
> > 768).
>
> Don't set the bios to auto for the cdrom drives. Set it to none. See
> if the problem stays the same or changes. If no differences, completely
> disconnect both cdrom drives and see if the problem stays the same or
> changes.
