Do you have a setting in the BIOS to enable SMART for your HDD? Sometimes the
error comes up during the loading of drivers when the drive is actively
seeking sectors. Just another thought.

Chris Ryan
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> i'm getting a warning intermittently at boot that the hardware monitor
> (AwardBios) is detecting an error and that i can hit F1 to continue or Del
> to check bios settings. the hardware monitor settings simpy give the CPU
> temp, fan RPM, voltage etc. should i choose the setting to 'ignore' or
> figure there is something wrong?

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