Neil Badley wrote:
>> Do you have any USB drives or card readers or printers with card
>> readers etc. hooked up? You have to disable the boot from USB option
>> on some Intel boards or intermittently this can occur. Alternatively
>> power down any external drives, remove any cards in card readers, and
>> disconnect any cameras with cards in them, etc..
>
>
> I had an iPod hooked up but I removed it (same problem). I haven't,
> however, disconnected my USB CF/SD reader (built in to my monitor.
> That's a good hint - I'll check that. I'll also check the "Boot from
> USB" option - good tip, thanks.
>
> Weird... intermittent problem, eh? I'll have to talk to my friends @
> Intel about that one. ;-) Thanks for the tip. Cross fingers... and Merry
> Christmas!

Okay, the system is back up. I had more than one problem, and I'm not
sure why it worked before:

1) Defective Maxtor/133 ATA interface (causing interrupt problems)

2) Had "USB Boot" turned on

3) Had "Plug and play aware OS" turned off

4) Downloaded the latest RAID driver from Intel for my motherboard

It required all 4 changes to get my system to do a successful repair
install. Sheesh!

-->Neil