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- jitter0
You need to make sure the jumpers on the drive are set to master. The mfg should have info on that.
Also, different branded pcs use different bios keys. Some use f12, some f2, some use delete. At least, that is what I have seen.
If there is nothing but a splash screen on boot and no bios instructions, try the escape key. That will get rid of the splash on HP computers.
- jakeyj0
thanks for the help
- Kuz0
- strabley0
oh yeah if you cant find any bios key or jumper settings check the knowlege base of the place that made it. they have it online
- strabley0
heres what you do, during post your going to want to hit escape to dismantle any bios splash screen, depening on your computer your bios key will be different. its usually found in the lower left hand corner but not always. When you in your bios the hard drive configuration will be a main setting tab so it shouldnt be hard to find. Make sure that the drive with XP is set for ide0 and the me drive for Ide1. While in bios check your boot settings and make sure that the drive with xp is ahead of that one with ME. that should take care of the bios. Also check your jumper and cable settings. Jumpers are different from drive to drive but it usually reads on the back whats master/slave/cable select. XP master / ME salve. If the drive with XP has never before been loaded with this computer then your going to run into a lot of configuration problems when you boot, assuming you can boot because of the bootfile being different with the paths and the sharp teeth and red pain and whatnot. So the easiest solution would be to setup your drives like i said then reload a copy of XP on the new master so everything goes over well.
- mrdobolina0
if you cant find bios, there isnt alot that can be said.
- jakeyj0
don't make me bump this. nobody can answer this quesiton???
- jakeyj0
no luck with the f12 thing. any other suggestions?
- versa0
try holding delete down for a bit, and / or f12 in the same fashion if that doesn't work
- 19780
Fuck it. I thought this thread was about sadomasochism. Really dissapointing. *walks away mumbling*
- jakeyj0
i can't get into BIOS. it doesn't ask me anywhere, it just starts up. any other suggestions??
- jakeyj0
thanks for the help. i'll give it a shot
- jox0
...but DON'T fiddle around too much in there if you don't know exactly what you're doing.
- jox0
it prompts you upon startup (right after it's been counting memory), it should say "Press DEL to enter BIOS" or something along the lines with that.
- jakeyj0
to get into bios i hold del when i reboot?
- jox0
(and if you don't know how to enter bios, just press DEL - it promts you on startup so you know when)
- jox0
there's a list of all disks, everything from floppys to the cd. And somewhere in that list, your XP disk should appear with what it's called (ie. if it's an IBM disk, it should say IBM something)
and there's a right column next to it which explaining its assigned title. And you can click / press it and change it (not sure if your mouse is enabled in dos mode, if its not just use the keyboard)
- jakeyj0
Check the bios again, make it ze mastah if its not.
um yeah, thanks - but how do i do that?
- jox0
Take out the disk, remember how the cables were attached to the ME disk - attach them just like that to the new XP disc and there you go.
If that doesn't work, it seems like you installed another disk when the ME one was already in there, so it's a conflict thing with the XP disk (thinking it's just a slave since it was given that title because there were two of them). Check the bios again, make it ze mastah if its not.