Freezes in BIOS

[Alvin.C]

Hello,

What happens when you remove the hard drive, and boot up?

 

[Indobos]

Hello,

What happens when you remove the hard drive, and boot up?

darn you Alvin!! stop thinking. LOL. I didn't think about that. I was making an assumption. There goes my technical knowledge out the door. I remember that when the HD was out it came up with an IDE error.

 

[Alvin.C]

Alright.

So you can access the BIOS settings with the hard drive removed, and the BIOS doesn't freeze?

Usually a system will boot up fine without a hard drive attached, but a 'no boot device' or 'ide error' will occur as no boot device is found, after POST.

 

[Indobos]

Yes, when I was putting the laptop back together. After reading on a techsite to disconnect then reconnect all the connections. I had it still apart and the HD was sitting behind the laptop. It came up with a 'ide error'.