Posts by Martin Cracauer

Skillz, the XP install CD boot works fine when the small harddrive is inserted. It stops working when the big harddrive is inserted. Regardless of what is on the HD. This is definitely a BIOS problem. The A10 BIOS update didn't do...

I don't mind the ads as such, but the forum structure (where what is placed on a page) and the fact that there's no straight forum list anywhere close to where you arrive is a little unusual. Anyway, I flashed to A10 but I can't test...

What's up with this forum, BTW? Did they sell it to somebody with bad taste and too much advertising demands?

Quote: Originally Posted by MrEvil I'm on A09 for the D820. And I originally bought my System with an 80GB drive and upgraded it to a 160GB Drive on BIOS A01. Maybe the D620 is more different than I thought from the...

What? I didn't see that. I found that Dell's website as the BIOS downloadable as A10. The changelog doesn't mention harddrive size modifications but then it's against the previous version and who knows what I have. I'll look it up at...

Quote: Originally Posted by MrEvil Power down your system and hold the Fn key while you power up. This will bring you into the built-in diagnostic utility. Let it run tests (you won't have a utility partition to run...

The drive is good, it runs Linux just fine. So what appears to have happened is that there was a Windows install on the drive that somehow bailed out directly after loading the bootsector (not like normally complaining about the hard...

It's a fresh drive. I managed to now install a Linux. Booting from CD works if I completely disable the HD boot and now the HD boots Linux. A generic XP CD is not happy, goes blank screen when examining the hardware.

Quote: Originally Posted by qhn How did you install OS on this drive? Can you pop in an installation CD and see if it can access the drive? cheers ... It does not try to load an OS, from any...

Trying to run a D620 with a new harddrive, a 320 GB WD3200BEVT. The 620 will say "a read error occurred, press Ctrl alt del to reboot" directly after post. I doesn't not attempt to load an OS. In the BIOS:I made sure that...