Hi Duke,
What worked for me was to assign a device to both IDE connector 1 and IDE connector 2 instead of using a single cable with IDE connector 1. I assigned the IDE 1 to the hard disk drive bay, and assigned IDE 2 to CD-ROM.
As an aside, my hard disk drive bay connected to IDE connector 1 is empty. I added it get get past the boot error. I use SATA 0 for the hard disk drive as I prefer to use a higher capacity hard disk drive.
Sincerely,
Vester
On Tue, Dec 28, 2021, at 10:03, Duke wrote:
Boot process halts almost from the start at message:
Verifying DMI Pool Data ........
Boot from CD: PBSR...EI
Then nothing! Keyboard not hung. Press any key and it reboots.
This is on an amd athlon xp 2000+ / 1G RAM / 2nd Master = CD-RW, ATA 33
Ideas / clues please. TIA ..
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Duke