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Motherboard Dying? AHCI Drive Init and boot loop intermittent failure
My computer is now intermittently failing to boot up.
For the last couple of days, when I turn it on it hangs on "AHCI Drive Init...", and when powered off and on again, it booted up fine.
Today, it ...
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Motherboard refuses to boot from SATA HDD
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this. It seemed like the closest fit in the SX sites, and this meta post seemed to suggest it was the right place. Here goes!
My computer has recently ...
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Desktop won't boot with two drives
I am trying to startup the computer with two drives; one is connected with SATA(Windows XP, 40G) and the other with IDE(blank, 80G). With just the SATA drive, it boots fine, but when I add the other ...
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BIOS wont boot (code 66) when Sata drive connected
When I can to one of my computers today it was showing Intel's splash screen (two intel logos, BIOS Settings: 'F2' and '66'.
The board is an intel dp55wb.
Pressing F2 does nothing.
However, when I ...
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