-=PCTechTalk=- Re: hardware configuration error on boot

  • From: "recklessmaverick@xxxxxxxxxx" <recklessmaverick@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:31:25 -0400

On top of all the below the belows instead of below the below belows.  
:-))  (try to make sense of that!)

 From Tues night to right now things have been disrupted by Mom's trip 
to the emergency room.  All is well now, in for observation and some 
tests but nothing "life threatening".   New cables arrived today.  It 
may be Sun or Mon before I can shuffle the drives.  I'll go look for 
updated drivers while I am at it.  Might even be a new BIOS out there too.

Don

Gman wrote:
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>
>   
>> You didn't comment on my idea it might be a
>> controller issue.  Does that sound as logical to you as it does to me?
>>     
>
>
> That's only because it was still premature to look at that.  If the drive 
> shuffling doesn't seem to help, update your mobo chipset drivers &/or 
> controller driver (some are combined with chipset).
>
>
>   
>> Not just quick.  But darn good too!  ;-)           If there was a second
>> controller, there would be a second set of 4 connectors, yes?  When my
>> new cables get here I will play musical hard drives  and put what will
>> be the boot drive on connector 1,  the second hard drive on connector 2
>> and the DVD on three.  If I ever upgrade the power supply and video card
>> I will add a blue ray player and put it on connector 4.
>>     
>
>
> Most secondary controllers only sport two SATA ports and they are sometimes 
> very separated (one near the front of the mobo for an internal, one near the 
> back for an external or eSATA connection), but still regulated by a single 
> secondary controller chip on the mobo.  Every time I've seen it, these 
> secondary ports were color coded differently than tht emain controller's 
> ports.  However, I've also never seen a board with four different colors for 
> the main SATA ports, so ... . 
>
>
>   
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