[COLUG] Boot problems

[Thomas W. Cranston]

Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 10:30 -0400, Phil Cuellar wrote:
>   
>> I echo another poster's suggestion to check the caps on the MB. IIRC
>> the age you gave for the MB is right around the time of bootleg cap
>> debacle that several manufacturers went through....
>> I had one of those MBs with bad caps, close visual inspection is all
>> you need. If the caps aren't flat on top, they're toast.
>>
>>     
>
> Thanks for the tip.  I did inspect the capacitors on the MB. They all
> look okay - a bit dusty, but ok <g>.
>
> I think I may have found (and corrected) the problem. I think it was my
> IDE drive cable.  Someone mentioned that that caused a similar problem
> and I had another cable so I tried it.  When I had the problem, it
> usually showed up only on the first time I turned the computer on in the
> morning.  I did a normal shutdown last night and this morning (with the
> replacement cable), it came right up.
>
> I have a related question.  My computer has a hard drive and a DVD-ROM
> drive and the MB has two IDE channels.  Before I replaced the cable, the
> HD was master and DVD slave on the Master IDE channel.
>
> To get the replacement cable working, I had to run separate cables to
> the HD and DVD. Now, the HD is Master on the primary channel and the DVD
> is Master on the secondary channel. Yes, I remembered to change the
> jumper on the DVD.  My question is, when you only have two IDE devices
> does it make much of a difference if they are on the same or different
> IDE channels?
>
> Mark
>
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>   
> does it make much of a difference if they are on the same or different
> IDE channels?
Yes it does. One of them slows the other one down. I forget which one 
slows the other down.

Tom