[COLUG] Boot problems

[Thomas W. Cranston]

Duane wrote:
> Mark Erbaugh wrote:
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>> 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.
>>     
>
> This used to happen to me occasionally with systems that had IDE hdd's
> in them. I don't know if it was some sort of corrosion or what, but
> after a year or a few years the hdd would look like it had failed.
>
> In reality all that needed to happen was re-seating the IDE cable on
> both the motherboard and the hdd, and everything would be fine again.
>
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In my case the IDE cable was bad. The connector at the end was not 
making contact w/the ribbon cable. It actually fell off. I put a brand 
new ASUS cable on and it was bad also. Connector was loose  on the 
cable. I did not mess it up. It had those straps on it so you could pull 
it off w/out tearing up the cable.