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Suggestion for another "Top Reason" for XP crashes
Monday, February 21, 2005 at 9:29 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Trogdor
(5 messages posted)
My Windows XP install was very buggy. It would post, but regularly lock up during
boot. It would take multiple hard resets before the OS would boot all the way to
the desktop.
The cause of the lockups in this case was the EIDE cable. My master OS harddisk
was connected to the last port on the EIDE cable. The master device must be connected
to the middle port on the EIDE cable. My guess is this is a temination problem,
and that random data echoes can occur if a master device is not attached to the middle
EIDE port.
If other people have seen this problem, or if this is a known issue, I think it should
be added as a bullet to the list above. This fix has resovled 2 months of pain for
me.
Trogdor
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