In message , Uncle Peter writes
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:17:23 -0000, Uncle Peter wrote:

On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:59:15 -0000, Ian Jackson
wrote:

In message , Uncle Peter writes

When I said "Crucial SSD", I was referring to your failed DISK, not
your memory.

Well, I've had a very trying day.

But no. C is a SATA HD, and D-E-F is an IDE HD. G is a CD RW / DVD ROM,
and H is a DVD RW. The BIOS shows them all, but I'm having fun trying to
set the boot order.

The BIOS doesn't use letters. They may get rearranged in the boot
order if one of them is intermittently being detected. I guess ****ed
memory might cause that, but in my experience it's usually the drive's
fault. There may be an option in the BIOS to give it longer to spin
up if it's an old thing.

It seems that I have actually managed to hit on the correct boot order -
although I'm still confused about the BIOS settings. The problem is that
I have two SATAs and two IDEs. They are :
C - Western Union SATA
DEF - Hitachi IDE
G - Sony CD RW / DVD ROM IDE
H - Toshiba CD/DVD RW SATA
I want the boot sequence to be G, then H, then if there is nothing
bootable in either, C. I had it doing this before I had the memory
problem, but that seemed to be responsible for screwing it up.
Fortunately, I think I now have it back to square one.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/...sed-bios-inter
mittently

Thanks. I'll have a look at that tomorrow.
--
Ian