The PC is about two years old (see details below). Lately, at first rarely but now more or less every time, it hangs after the post (displaying 'Boot from CD/DVD' on two lines). When it doesn't hang, the next step is the Grub boot loader menu display (it's a dual boot with Ubuntu).
In the BIOS there is a setting for stopping the boot process for: "all errors except keyboard" and there is another option for this setting: "no errors" - should I change to that? What would be the risk(s)?
System details:
Operating System
MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz 39 °C
Wolfdale 45nm Technology
RAM
4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 399MHz (5-5-5-15)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP45-UD3P (Socket 775)
Graphics
BenQ FP202W @ 1680x1050
512MB GeForce 9600 GT (Undefined) 44 °C
Hard Drives
156GB Western Digital WDC WD1600AAJS-22B4A0 (IDE) 34 °C
733GB Western Digital WDC WD7500AACS-00D6B0 (IDE) 34 °C
Optical Drives
ASUS DRW-20B1LT SCSI CdRom Device
ASUS DRW-20B1LT SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio
In the BIOS there is a setting for stopping the boot process for: "all errors except keyboard" and there is another option for this setting: "no errors" - should I change to that? What would be the risk(s)?
System details:
Operating System
MS Windows XP Professional 32-bit SP3
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.00GHz 39 °C
Wolfdale 45nm Technology
RAM
4.0GB Dual-Channel DDR2 @ 399MHz (5-5-5-15)
Motherboard
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP45-UD3P (Socket 775)
Graphics
BenQ FP202W @ 1680x1050
512MB GeForce 9600 GT (Undefined) 44 °C
Hard Drives
156GB Western Digital WDC WD1600AAJS-22B4A0 (IDE) 34 °C
733GB Western Digital WDC WD7500AACS-00D6B0 (IDE) 34 °C
Optical Drives
ASUS DRW-20B1LT SCSI CdRom Device
ASUS DRW-20B1LT SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio