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- From: djcavana@nyx.cs.du.edu (David Cavanaugh)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Phoenix BIOS w/ IDE drive -- strange booting problem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.151718.17236@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:17:18 GMT
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- Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
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- I'm trying to build a PC, using an old 386 DX motherboard, with
- Phoenix 1.10 BIOS. I installed a noname IDE controller, with a
- Western Digital 2200 (212MB) hard disk. At boot time, I get
- "hard disk initialization error", and it asks if I want to run
- setup. If I run setup, I can exit (without changing anything),
- and the machine boots - no problem. Has anyone seen this kind
- of problem before? I have assembled a considerable number of
- PCs over the years, but I never encountered this kind of glitch.
- I suspect that a BIOS upgrade would solve the problem, I just
- want to see if anyone else has fixed a similar problem, and is
- a BIOS upgrade the real answer.
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