>>What BIOS do you have? I'm running the latest Award.
Almost a meaningless question. The mobo manufacturers
really control how the machine responds to bios commands.
The bios provided provides an interface and basic
bios subsystem support. Roughly the equivalent of
Windows and, say, video drivers. You might ask
me what service pack level of NT I was running if
I were having video problems, and there MIGHT be
a thing to fix there, but chances are it's the video
driver that needs fixing. Analogy not perfect,
but not too bad either.
Anyhow, if you can boot your NT on drive D ('scuse me,
IDE 2) as a backup, why screw around with another one?
Especially when it's causing mysterious problems.
I always run out of time trying to diagnose this
kind of NT problem. I'm not sure there's enough
time since the universe began to diagnose this
kind of NT problem.
What you want is something you can boot to stay on
the air with, and possibly fix problems in the primary
OS, or at least to launch a reinstall when all else
fails. Sounds to me like you have that. The rest
is an intellectual exercise which, it's beginning
to appear, neither you nor I have the intellect to
master <gg>. If that bothers you, rest assured it
will bother you less as you approach my exalted
years. Or at least if it bothers you, you won't
be able to recall the fact for long <ggg>.
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