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Old 11-09-2007, 04:57 PM
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Default bios stops at Primary channel

I have reinstalled win xp on a asus p400 with a sata hd/ every thing was good untill i installed sp2, and rebooted now the boot screen bios goes trough its regular ruteen every thing looks good untill it gets to primary channel it stops there with a curser blinking after it,
I tried to boot as the hd/ first with a boot disk or the org xp dsk but the same thing.
it wont boot w, the cd/rom it sees it but it wont boot from it.

PLease help,,, this has happened befor but i took it someware and the guy fixed in no time ,, this was a while ago,
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Default bios stops at Primary channel

Will it boot anything else from a CD/DVD? (Like a live version of Linux?)

Do you have a genuine bootable XP CD?
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Default bios stops at Primary channel

Yes a genuine win cd and it will not even boot to acronis, I do not have a linux disk,

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Default bios stops at Primary channel

Originally Posted by brustlhr View Post
Yes a genuine win cd and it will not even boot to acronis, I do not have a linux disk,

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Have you tried re-flashing the BIOS then?
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