Odd boot up

[Bishop]

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Hi, my comp has been working fine with

3200 xp 90nm
2x512mb
6800gt agp
msi neo2 plat
WD 74gig raptor

then all of a sudden when i turn my computer on one day is gets the
veriyfying the dmi pool (?) and looks to what's in my disk drive, when that
fails it askes for a boot cd, then failing that is just says abort or retry.
I have to go into the boot menu (F11) at start up and select my hard drive
to start winxp, why on earth is this?! My bios has not been changed and my
first boot drive is my hard drive, not floppy of cd. Any ideas appreciated
as i'm stuck! I havent changed a thing and havent come across this before.

Thanks

 

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"Bishop" <p.harnett@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, my comp has been working fine with
>
> 3200 xp 90nm
> 2x512mb
> 6800gt agp
> msi neo2 plat
> WD 74gig raptor
>
> then all of a sudden when i turn my computer on one day is gets the
> veriyfying the dmi pool (?) and looks to what's in my disk drive, when
> that
> fails it askes for a boot cd, then failing that is just says abort or
> retry.
> I have to go into the boot menu (F11) at start up and select my hard drive
> to start winxp, why on earth is this?! My bios has not been changed and my
> first boot drive is my hard drive, not floppy of cd. Any ideas appreciated
> as i'm stuck! I havent changed a thing and havent come across this before.
>
> Thanks
>


sounds like it could be a failing boot sector on the hdd. it must be quite
old(ish) if its a 74gb
it'll be doing the 'verifying dmi pool data' because it detects that
something is wrong/altered.

you might get confirmation or better answers here - news:uk.comp.homebuilt

HTH

 

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"Chris 159" <temp@cdelectrics.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
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> sounds like it could be a failing boot sector on the hdd. it must be
> quite old(ish) if its a 74gb

<snicker>

 

[Bishop]

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Naa it's one of those 10,000rpm drives, small but fast, only had it a few
months too.

"Mitch Crane" <a-one@a-two.a-three> wrote in message
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> "Chris 159" <temp@cdelectrics.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
> news:cqvmov$n24$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk:
>
> > sounds like it could be a failing boot sector on the hdd. it must be
> > quite old(ish) if its a 74gb
>
> <snicker>
>

 

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"Bishop" <p.harnett@ntlworld.com> wrote in news:KuPAd.492$1V5.34@newsfe5-
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> Naa it's one of those 10,000rpm drives, small but fast, only had it a few
> months too.

I know. That's why I snickered at the "it must be quite old(ish) if its a
74gb" comment.


> "Mitch Crane" <a-one@a-two.a-three> wrote in message
> news:Xns95CEEFB2755E9616F6E656174776F6174@63.223.5.95...
>> "Chris 159" <temp@cdelectrics.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
>> news:cqvmov$n24$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk:
>>
>> > sounds like it could be a failing boot sector on the hdd. it must be
>> > quite old(ish) if its a 74gb
>>
>> <snicker>

 

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"Mitch Crane" <a-one@a-two.a-three> wrote in message
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> "Bishop" <p.harnett@ntlworld.com> wrote in news:KuPAd.492$1V5.34@newsfe5-
> gui.ntli.net:
>
>> Naa it's one of those 10,000rpm drives, small but fast, only had it a few
>> months too.
>
> I know. That's why I snickered at the "it must be quite old(ish) if its a
> 74gb" comment.
>

a few months is quite old(ish)

 

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"Chris 159" <temp@cdelectrics.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in
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>
> "Mitch Crane" <a-one@a-two.a-three> wrote in message
> news:Xns95CF4FEAAE20E616F6E656174776F6174@63.223.5.95...
>> "Bishop" <p.harnett@ntlworld.com> wrote in
>> news:KuPAd.492$1V5.34@newsfe5- gui.ntli.net:
>>
>>> Naa it's one of those 10,000rpm drives, small but fast, only had it
>>> a few months too.
>>
>> I know. That's why I snickered at the "it must be quite old(ish) if
>> its a 74gb" comment.
>>
>
> a few months is quite old(ish)

Yeah. Drive technology has come so far since then. I'm surprised there are
any controllers which support such antiques.