unckybob
August 26th, 2008, 07:53 PM
I installed Ubuntu to my machine and I was absolutely delighted. It went without a hitch. But when I put in another hard drive and tried to install XP. I had all kinds of problems. It hung during the install.
I tried a number of things. During the process of events my BIOS got fried. It's okay, Dell said they would replace my motherboard, but I'd like to know what I did wrong, so I won't have this happen to me in the future.
Did Ubuntu indeed do something to my BIOS?
If it does consider the following scenario: my Ubuntu disk fails and I want to install XP on the system with a separate hard disk. How can I do it without blowing my BIOS? And my motherboard? Please help.
Dell System 3000
Pentium 4, 2.8 Ghz
CPU Speed: Normal
Level 1 Cache: 1024 KB
Level 2 Cache: 1 MB Integrated
Bus Speed: 533 MHz
Processor 0 ID: F41
BIOS Version A02
512 MB DDR SDRAM, 333 MHz
System memory Channel Mode: Dual
AGP Aperture: 128 MB
I tried a number of things. During the process of events my BIOS got fried. It's okay, Dell said they would replace my motherboard, but I'd like to know what I did wrong, so I won't have this happen to me in the future.
Did Ubuntu indeed do something to my BIOS?
If it does consider the following scenario: my Ubuntu disk fails and I want to install XP on the system with a separate hard disk. How can I do it without blowing my BIOS? And my motherboard? Please help.
Dell System 3000
Pentium 4, 2.8 Ghz
CPU Speed: Normal
Level 1 Cache: 1024 KB
Level 2 Cache: 1 MB Integrated
Bus Speed: 533 MHz
Processor 0 ID: F41
BIOS Version A02
512 MB DDR SDRAM, 333 MHz
System memory Channel Mode: Dual
AGP Aperture: 128 MB