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windows 7 booting error

Jun 12, 2010 6:17AM PDT

i have looked all over on the net and hopefully i can find the help i need here. i am running windows 7 x64 ultimate on a pc i built. For some reason the plcc bios chip on the motherboard went bad and i ordered a new one and replaced it and flashed it to the latest bios revision. Due to the location of the chip on the motherboard i had to remove the motherboard from the tower to effect the chip replacement. my motherboard has 6 sata II channels and and all are populated with drives. To make sure that i didnt mix up the drive assignments i labeled and numbered each cable to ensure that each one was plugged back into thier respective drives once the new chip was installed. After putting everything back together and attempting to boot the system i get the following error: GRUB Loader 1.5 GRUB Loading, please wait... error 17. i am aware that grub is a linux Boot loader as i have used linux on other machines but not on this box ( i have run linux using vmware workstation for windows on this machine, but thats not the same as a true dual booting scheme)as a temp bypass when i first turn on the computer i press the F8 key to load the bios bootloader and i chose the drive that contains my windows installation and the computer loads up normally (im using the affected pc now to make this post). Even though this workaround does the trick i would like to fix it so it boots normally. Any thoughts on how to repair this issue would be greatly appreciated. thank you

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Since BIOS controls which is the boot drive and not Windows.
Jun 12, 2010 11:42AM PDT

Try just the one drive with Windows on it attached. Add one by one...

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fixed
Jun 13, 2010 12:55PM PDT

i got the issue resolved. i had already set everything else in the bios ( i have 3 performance profiles set- my bios allows you to copy them out to floppy- i have an asus crosshair with bios revision 1207) but i thought that it carried over the sata boot order, which it doesnt, and now the problem is fixed. the drive that was set to boot first came from a windows vista machine i got from a pc salvage and never had linux on it, the person only had windows installed for the short time he had the system. so not sure how GRUB got there, dont care my system now boots without having to wait to push the F8 key. thanx