can you explain why in my dual boot (winME+MDK8.2, currently) dual CPU (1gig P3 each, 512 ram) when ever I attempt to "reboot" from the "normal" manners (ie.;"k"menu, logout, reboot) causes a "floppy drive failure" on the bios startup, but if I reboot by turning off the power supply, or reboot from windows I have no such problem. I am of the impression there is some interaction between MDK and the BIOS that causes some settings to remain after reboot.
> > The problem is Win2k and Mandrake 8.1 cause no such problems at all. Why > > would 8.2 be the only one to bring out symptoms of a faulty BIOS? > > Joseph, > > Our confusion I believe is that Bios only reacts and prints to the > screen before you get to lilo... This is what tells the box what OS to > boot to. Or are you using some kind of BIOS based bootloader other than > Lilo? Or are these errors appearing after Lilo or whatever your > bootloader is. I'm not questioning your findings just that the > description you give is a tad confusing. If It occurs in BIOS then at > that point it is entirely BIOS (Remove your hdd and you can still boot > to BIOS on many mobo's then you get the error no OS found...) BUT if the > error is occuring after Lilo selection of the OS... this is strange. > However I've learned never say never in computers. (I have ram that > doesn't like one of my computers.... It works in 5 others and tests good > with memory testing software, but it won't work in one box. *sigh*) So > if you would please could you clarify the confusion... and someone here > hopefully can help.
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