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re: Suggestion for another "Top Reason" for XP crashes
Monday, February 21, 2005 at 10:43 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ricer46
(19384 messages posted)
This is not typical, I think something else was going on. IDE drives don't require
"termination."
On Monday, February 21, 2005 at 9:29 pm, Trogdor wrote:
>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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