[thelist] [OT] Ultra ATA nightmare
Michael Pemberton
evolt at mpember.net.au
Wed Apr 21 08:42:44 CDT 2004
Joshua Olson wrote:
> I'm beginning to think it's a BIOS problem, as you suggested. Now I have an
> impasse... if I flash the BIOS without first updating the Windows driver,
> then windows won't load. But, I cannot load Windows until I flash the
> BIOS... what's a guy to do!
Have you tried a Windows PE boot disk? It may give you a way of loading
windows without the hdd being a factor. In either case, you can always
take a backup of the current system before changing anything.
>
> This is why I like programming webpages more than troubleshooting the
> servers they run on. Ugh.
>
Stange. I would have gone the other way because I know hardware better
than I do code :)
> Thanks for the good ideas Michael and David.
No probs.
--
Michael Pemberton
evolt at mpember.net.au
More information about the thelist
mailing list