an issue I ould like to figure out...

[[JiF]Crash]

Hey...

For about 9 months now, when I boot I get the following error.

"Warning. The boot devices have changed. BBS boot priority will be affected. Please enter setup to check."

I can either F1 to ignore, or go into setup and fix. Most of the time I just F1, sometimes I go in to see what could have changed, which is usually nothing.

The thing is, is that I never changed the boot order. And even when I do I F10 to save. I get this error about 80% of the time when booting every day. Some times it just boots normally.

I have changed the bios battery.
Flashed the bios.

I don't know how to get rid of the error.

Again I can F1 and boot right in, but want to figure out why it "thinks there is a new boot order"

[[JiF]ALargeWoodenBadger]

The only time I have seen that error was on a system that had a component that was slowly dieing. In one case it was the CD-Rom which was burning out (it was actually hot enough to burn my finger tips when I touched it) and screwing up the boot order. Because the CD-Rom was dieing it was not always being recognized on boot up - thus the change in boot order.

[[JiF]Crash]

wow...

That might be true. My rarely used DVD burner thats on the slave cdrom cable sometime does not show up on boot up. But if thats the case and I rarely used this drive, why would it be that flaky during boot seek for drives?

After a few more replies, I'll yank the drive for a while and see if the errors stop. If they do, what could be causing the motherboard to be pissy with the rarely used drive??

Thanks

[[JiF]LtWaterboy]

Crash,

that's exactly what just happened to me a couple months ago.

one of my drives failed. since they were linked in series, wasn't sure which it was (if not both).

game me a reason to upgrade both of them...heehee... fixed all those errors.

LT