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Old 21st June 2012
caravel caravel is offline
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The BIOS responds to nothing but CTRL+ALT+DEL during the POST with the drive attached - it hangs the instant the PATA drives are detected. I've configured the system to boot from the CDROM which makes no difference - the system does not get any further than the aforementioned device detection. With the drive connected I cannot get into BIOS setup or bring up the BIOS boot menu - so any BIOS configuration I do has to be with it disconnected. With the drive formatted off it all returns to normal.

I agree that it must get through POST and freeze instantly while the POST screen is still visible and the BIOS handing over to the bootloader. This may also explain why the BIOS hotkeys stop working.

I will do some more fiddling around this evening if possible as well as installing 8.3 to see if there's any difference.

I don't mind resetting the BIOS to factory defaults either or messing about with individual settings.

Thanks again for your help.
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