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Same old question!
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I have a 40G Western Digital HDD as MASTER, with no jumpers attached...per WD, and it's the only drive in my PC. Bios reads it as Master Hard Drive. OK!. I also have a NEC CD Rom drive, jumpered as MASTER, and the only CD drive in my PC. Bios reads it as SECONDARY MASTER. OK! When I boot up, I receive the dreaded, "Press F1 to continue". No other error messages showing. I press F1, and it continues to boot with no problems at all. Question: Would using CABLE SELECT instead of MASTER solve the problem? I never had to use Cable Select before, that's why I wonder. Everything else shows as expected...memory count, DMI Pool, ESD, etc and no problems wjhatsoever when up and running in WIN XP Home Edition. No big deal, just a tad disconcerting, and a precious second of wasted time, forcing me to stare at it while she boots. Mike |
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WD HDDs will NOT work if they are set as master and are the only device on a
channel. Removed jumper is correct. Sometimes, the bios simply detects that stuff has changed, and all you have to do is go in, hit save and exit, and that will do it. Some BIOS's have logging. Check and see if yours does. "Amina" wrote in message om... (Michael P Gabriel) wrote in message ... Hello! I have a 40G Western Digital HDD as MASTER, with no jumpers attached...per WD, and it's the only drive in my PC. Bios reads it as Master Hard Drive. OK!. I also have a NEC CD Rom drive, jumpered as MASTER, and the only CD drive in my PC. Bios reads it as SECONDARY MASTER. OK! When I boot up, I receive the dreaded, "Press F1 to continue". No other error messages showing. I press F1, and it continues to boot with no problems at all. Question: Would using CABLE SELECT instead of MASTER solve the problem? I never had to use Cable Select before, that's why I wonder. Everything else shows as expected...memory count, DMI Pool, ESD, etc and no problems wjhatsoever when up and running in WIN XP Home Edition. No big deal, just a tad disconcerting, and a precious second of wasted time, forcing me to stare at it while she boots. Mike I think better you keep one jumper on the hard disk and make it as a primary master and make the cdrom as a primary slave. after doing these things goto bios and make the IDE autodetection if you having that option. |
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They should be set as SINGLE, not Master. You only use Master when you have
two devices on the same IDE channel. -- DaveW "Michael P Gabriel" wrote in message . .. Hello! I have a 40G Western Digital HDD as MASTER, with no jumpers attached...per WD, and it's the only drive in my PC. Bios reads it as Master Hard Drive. OK!. I also have a NEC CD Rom drive, jumpered as MASTER, and the only CD drive in my PC. Bios reads it as SECONDARY MASTER. OK! When I boot up, I receive the dreaded, "Press F1 to continue". No other error messages showing. I press F1, and it continues to boot with no problems at all. Question: Would using CABLE SELECT instead of MASTER solve the problem? I never had to use Cable Select before, that's why I wonder. Everything else shows as expected...memory count, DMI Pool, ESD, etc and no problems wjhatsoever when up and running in WIN XP Home Edition. No big deal, just a tad disconcerting, and a precious second of wasted time, forcing me to stare at it while she boots. Mike |
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