I have a quad core 64bit xp pro system and it all works fine with the exception of the soundcard, the CD drive, and upon boot, I have to go into the boot menu (F8) and select which HD I want the computer to boot off of. The soundcard and CD drive don't bother me; any help on the boot problem? I suspect BIOS.
hi, when you select to boot from the hd do you click save changes and reboot pc. you said something wrong with sound card, do you know what it is exactly. also when your pc boot press f8 and choose last known good config.
if you still have problem maybe a bios update but not just yet lets see what other tech say about it.
I got the CD drive working, or rather it decided on it's own to work. The soundcard wasn't enabled as the default sound device, so those two things are fixed. The F8 screen on this computer doesn't have a last known good config, and this is the first configuration so there is no last known good one. I'll search around to see if I can find what you're talking about though.. Thanks!
OK, I got it fixed. I set the Boot Device Priority to 1st - Harddisk, 2nd - CD Drive, 3rd - Removable, and 4th is disabled. I went to the Harddisk configuration and it turned out that it was booting the 2nd harddrive instead of the first. I switched that around and all is working well.
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