The problem is I am trying to boot a CD, Arconis TrueImage 8.0, that boots 
to a Linux distribution to make backup images of the boot/system hard drive. 
It is having a problem with the Firewire port that keeps it from booting 
properly.  Disabling it in anything but the BIOS would be futile.

"Randall Flagg" <cujogroup-absk@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Leo wrote:
>> Is there a way in BIOS to disable the onboard 1394, firewire?  I
>> don't find anything about it in the Windows GUI.  When I hit ESC then
>> F1 at bootup it just boots windows, I suspect this is because I
>> installed a new hard drive after the original one failed and didn't
>> get a diagnostic partition loaded. When I boot from a floppy created
>> with Win98se with Format A: /s and try to run TSETUP.exe nothing
>> happens.
>
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> I disabled the 1394 Host Controller of my 5105 in Windows Device Manager.
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> RF
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