The machine died and came back
 

I was in the middle of some program development work in the .Net IDE. I
wanted to go to Explorer off the Start Button and the new company Dell
Latitude D600 laptrop running Win 2K locked up.

So, I power down the laptop and power it back on and it goes through the
BIOS thing and just sits and comes back with a message indicating *Hard
disk read error Press F1 to try reboot or F2 to go into setup. I did the
retry a couple of times and powering up and down with no success in booting
to Win 2k. Finally, I went into the BIOS set-up to change the boot sequence
and try to boot from the Ultimate Boot CD.

For some reason I don't know why, it was able to boot from the HDD and to
Win 2K and I never switched the boot sequence after I came out of the BIOS
setup.

It made no sense as to how the machine started doing what it did and how it
was able to recover itself.

Has anyone seen this kind of thing?

Duane :)

Re: The machine died and came back
 

Duane Arnold <notme@notme.com> wrote in
news:Xns95A0D5D3B29F7notmenotmecom@204.127.199.17:

> I was in the middle of some program development work in the .Net IDE.
> I wanted to go to Explorer off the Start Button and the new company
> Dell Latitude D600 laptrop running Win 2K locked up.
>
> So, I power down the laptop and power it back on and it goes through
> the BIOS thing and just sits and comes back with a message indicating
> *Hard disk read error Press F1 to try reboot or F2 to go into setup. I
> did the retry a couple of times and powering up and down with no
> success in booting to Win 2k. Finally, I went into the BIOS set-up to
> change the boot sequence and try to boot from the Ultimate Boot CD.
>
> For some reason I don't know why, it was able to boot from the HDD and
> to Win 2K and I never switched the boot sequence after I came out of
> the BIOS setup.
>
> It made no sense as to how the machine started doing what it did and
> how it was able to recover itself.
>
> Has anyone seen this kind of thing?
>
> Duane :)
>

I've replaced a ton of hard drives from Del systems. Sounds to me like
the HD translation glitched in the BIOS and needed a good reset to clear
the bug. Don't worry though, it will be back soon.

Re: The machine died and came back
 

Thagor <thagor@email.coma> wrote in news:Xns95A0E6A8C73F9thagmailcoma@
207.115.63.158:

> Duane Arnold <notme@notme.com> wrote in
> news:Xns95A0D5D3B29F7notmenotmecom@204.127.199.17:
>
>> I was in the middle of some program development work in the .Net IDE.
>> I wanted to go to Explorer off the Start Button and the new company
>> Dell Latitude D600 laptrop running Win 2K locked up.
>>
>> So, I power down the laptop and power it back on and it goes through
>> the BIOS thing and just sits and comes back with a message indicating
>> *Hard disk read error Press F1 to try reboot or F2 to go into setup. I
>> did the retry a couple of times and powering up and down with no
>> success in booting to Win 2k. Finally, I went into the BIOS set-up to
>> change the boot sequence and try to boot from the Ultimate Boot CD.
>>
>> For some reason I don't know why, it was able to boot from the HDD and
>> to Win 2K and I never switched the boot sequence after I came out of
>> the BIOS setup.
>>
>> It made no sense as to how the machine started doing what it did and
>> how it was able to recover itself.
>>
>> Has anyone seen this kind of thing?
>>
>> Duane :)
>>
>
> I've replaced a ton of hard drives from Del systems. Sounds to me like
> the HD translation glitched in the BIOS and needed a good reset to clear
> the bug. Don't worry though, it will be back soon.
>

I don't doubt it.


Duane :)