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oddmanout09
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October 26th, 2009 14:00
Secondary EIDE controller
On boot, a black screen appears with.....WARNING: Dell's disk monitoring system has detected that drive 0 on the secondary EIDE controller is operating outside of normal specification. It is advisable to immeciately back up your data and replace your hard-disk.
It then gives options, F1 to continue or F2 to run setup utility.
The only posts I could find was about the primary EIDE controller, but same warning. Any help?
fireberd
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Posted October 26th, 2009 14:00
What model PC?
Usually, the hard drive(s) are on the primary IDE I/O channel and the CD/DVD drives are on the secondary IDE I/O channel. But, it sounds like you have a hard drive on the secondary IDE I/O channel. Is the way you are set up? If it is, the Dell disk monitor is telling you that hard drive is failing and you need to back up any user data that is on that hard drive as it will need to be replaced.