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Hi,
Sounds like one of your drives may of bit the dust.
Try booting each drive alone, set as a master, and see if one of them is
not recognised in the Bios.
that should narrow down which drive is the culprit.
At 05:26 PM 01/26/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>I'm having problems with my computer. I'm getting the following errors:
>Primary Master Hard Disk Fail
>Primary Slave Hard Disk Fail
>
>Computer Specifications:
>Award Modular BIOS V4.51PGM
>Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension V1.0A
>Intel i440LX PCIset
>233Mhz Pentium II-MMX
>
>I currently have a 428 MB hard drive as my primary master and a 6 GB as my
>primary slave.
>
>I have entered my BIOS to reset the IDE hard drive specifications without
>success. My BIOS is not acknowledging a primary master, but is acknowledging
>my primary master as the primary slave. I'm not sure why. Because it is
>basically setting my primary master as the primary slave, I'm not able to
>get in the operating system. The system allows me to continue the boot up
>process, but then stops at:
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>Verifying DMI Pool Data
>Disk Boot Failure, INsert System Disk and Press Enter
>
God Bless America!
Joe Lore
MicroComputerCenter, Inc.
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