Re: Disk Boot Failure - Suggestions?

RSS <rsilverst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote

After having my system running smoothly for a year, I have twice (in the
last couple of days) got a "Disk Boot Failure" during powerup. In both
cases, if I hit the reset button, the machine boots normally.
The only recent changes I've made are as follows: Installed a new
audio interface card (Delta 1010LT) about 3 weeks ago. Have had no
problems. Installed two pieces of audio/recording software. One of
these programs is a little buggy and occasionally crashes or locks up
the machine. But those were also installed 1-2 weeks ago, and the
failure occurred for the first time 2 days ago.

Its not likely that the software is the problem, it shouldnt affect the
boot.

The quick test for the card is obviously to remove it and see if
that makes any difference and to check that you didnt disturb
the hard drive ribbon cable, make sure its fully seated at both ends.

I'd be interested to know a) what tests I should perform,

See above. Its possible that the power supply is marginal
and that card has pushed it over the edge and it isnt
producing quite enough power at boot time etc.

Post the hard drive SMART stats using Everest.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4181

b) what the most likely culprit is.

The first thing to check is if its got anything to do with the recent
changes.

I am not sure if the two times that this occurred on startup were
consecutive startups, or if it was like 2 out of 3 - so it's not clear if
it's intermittent or not. I'll do some more experimentation with that
later after I've backed up some of my data.

Thank you!!!

My system is as follows:

Athlon 2700XP

SOLTEK SL-75FRN2-RL Socket A (Socket 462) NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 ATX
AMD Motherboard

Main drive: WD-80GB Serial ATA

Backup drives: WD-80GB IDE, Maxtor-10GB IDE


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