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I have been given a Medion M5000 to look at. It has an MSI 6701 OEM Mobo with a P4 2.66 CPU 2Gb RAM and a WD 250GB HDD in NTFS and DVD RW and there is no FDD. The BIOS is still the original one. The problem is that the BIOS is very slow and takes about 3 minutes to POST. It starts and goes to HDD and takes a minute just to identify the HDD and the DVD RW. It then sits and waits for a while and throws up a RAID screen then decides there is no RAID and after more time it shows a screen with two options 1 Boot Windows 2 Boot from CD If I put a CD in the drive it takes another heap of time to boot the CD but then works at the expected speed using the software on the CD (Hirens Boot CD). I coupled up a FDD temorarily,enabled it in the BIOS but it won't read a W98 startup floppy it just starts to read it and stops. I have reset the BIOS changed the CMOS battery and checked all cables for obvious faults but can find no solution Any suggestions would be much appreciated
-------------------- Foxconn 6150K8MA-8KRS. AMD4600 2x64 2GB Crucial RAM - ATI X850GTO Inside of every old person, there's a young one wondering what has happened to them. Terry Pratchett Posts: 14 | From: UK | Registered: Jan 2005
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I solved this problem with a new ribbon cable! I set out to disconnect everything down to barebones and to rebuild it a bit at a time using known working parts. When I changed the primary IDE cable everything started running okay so I continued the build and now with the rebuild complete it is running fine.
-------------------- Foxconn 6150K8MA-8KRS. AMD4600 2x64 2GB Crucial RAM - ATI X850GTO Inside of every old person, there's a young one wondering what has happened to them. Terry Pratchett Posts: 14 | From: UK | Registered: Jan 2005
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