Not quite sure I follow you here... Shutdown the machine, then do what from there? Direct boot? Boot from a win boot disk? Thanks for the help! -ed- > > > Excuse my jumping in here, but, did you load LM 8.0 and do you have the >> infamous via 686b southbridge chipsets on the computers. I am no expert >> but would LM 8 disabling DMA carryover to the windows boot? That may be >> what slowed down the system. This is just speculation on my part, cause >> I'm no expert. Maybe Tom Brinkman or one of the other hardware gurus knows >> for sure. > > >Dennis has a good point. Earlier I worked with one SONY model where >hardware changes >made by linux were not reset by a warm boot, so a reboot to windows >was impossible >because the processor (which comes up in 80286 compatibility mode) >could not be talked >out of 386 protected mode and would not allow 286 instructions to >try to manipulate A20 >and higher address lines. > >Try a reboot with a power down and a direct boot to windows. The >PIO disk mode settings might >be carrying over. We should have out a kernel that fixes this >problem in a matter of days. > >Civileme > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://wwww.mandrakestore.com
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