Howdy All,
I know the post below has some info, but the situation on my box seems to be different. Okay here's the thing.......I went out and bought a new Seagate 120G drive to add to the 20G Seagate I've already had working in the box since new. I shutdown the computer, Installed the 20G drive as Master (Pins 7/8), installed the 120G drive as the slave (No jumpers) and proceeded to boot up the box.........To my surprise I thought this process would have been pretty painless, but I guess I was wrong. My box is a Dell 4400 series P4 and I've installed CD burners and DVD burners with no problems whatsoever, but when I went to boot up the machine after installing the drives I get this nasty "No Bootable Disc Found"System Halted" message. So I tried going back to the origional config with the old drive setup alone and I can't even get the operating system to boot up that way............Since then I've been on the phone with tech support from Dell for a couple hours to no avail. I'm able to enter bios advanced tab and its recognizing the hardware on my Secondary IDE master and slave, but not my Primary IDE master/slave. I've switched cables from Secondary to Primary thinking that I might have a cable problem, but to no avial neither. The strangest thing is that during our troubleshooting escapade last night we were able to get WindowsXP to fire up and I could get into my user, but when I tried to restart the computer I'd get the same old "No Bootable Disc Found"System Halted" message...........grrroowwwl...We also had the message "Error loading operating system" a few times too after fooling around in the bios. I'm pretty much stumped though, and it looks like they're going to send a tech out from dell to have a look, but not for a couple days. Any ideas on anything I can do from Bios as it's the only thing I can access when I turn on the power........
Thanks much,
Max
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