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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Computer Usage and Setup Help => Topic started by: dinhotheone on September 23, 2007, 12:00:00 pm
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okay, ive bought everything, assembled it all and my computer runs fine every time. however, i still have a few questions regaurding the opening sequences.
1) everytime my comp turns on it displays this screen where it tells me which devices were found and whats gonna be master/slave. now this is fine, but it wont go past this part and actually start booting up unless i press f1. is there anyway to disable this or even better to make it so after 20 seconds it will go to the next thing (OS selection)
2) is there a way to make it boot up a particular os. like everytime it goes to the dual boot screen and will stay there untill i select an OS. i want it to either to not ask or to move on after a 20 or so seconds.
i thought i'd be able to find this stuff in the bios but i dont know what most of the things in there are and im afraid of messing something up real bad. so any help? thanks.
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Don't be afraid of your BIOS! And yeah it should be in there somewhere. For your bootloader are you using grub? I have grub set to load xp x64 after 5 seconds if I have not selected anything else.
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are your HDDs IDE or SATA?
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obviously IDE since he has a master and slave
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you mean SATA doesn't have that master-slave thingy anymore? awesome... i think...
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Nopers, SATA has no master and slave, each controller only plugs into one drive and it's all plug and play. (assuming you have SATA drivers, some older mobos may need to get them before you install windows.