On 7/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Robert Bradbury wrote:<br><br>><br>> Q: Are we working with and IDE drive and do we know whether it is using<br>> DMA xfers? (Is this a BIOS setting?)<br><br>Also remember you need an 80-conductor cable for the faster modes to
<br>work properly.<br><br>><br>> I did look at the UltimateBootCD listing and it does look like it has<br>> some CPU benchmarks that could be used to test the CPU integrity and<br>> possible overheating (haven't tried using them however -- YMMV).
<br><br>It's a pretty handy disk. There is a Windows version that checks MS<br>systems for common problems (like Sony rootkits), but that wouldn't be<br>of much interest to folks here.<br><br>BEWW</blockquote><div>
<br>Just to clarify for the couple of posts above. I have not tried booting the Knoppix CD but I have tried Fedora Live and it would hang at the same place as my hdd install. I have not tried to boot the main hdd from this box in another box... but the winxp drive that doesn't boot i do know boots fine in another box.
<br><br>I'll give UBCD a try this evening and see what I can find. As another aside, a few weeks prior to this my CMOS battery died, so I've been through the BIOS settings a lot recently. I wasn't having any trouble getting the settings right then, so I'm pretty sure I have that piece pretty well covered.
<br>Does anyone think its worth flashing the BIOS? I would have done that already but it can only be done from floppy... and i don't have a floppy drive readily accessible so its a little bit of work to get it done.<br>
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