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Mother board takes a long time to post
Hello.
My new motheboard is taking quite a while to post. When I first power it on, it pauses on the screen that displays the American Mega Trands BIOS version. The message it sits on is "Detecting Primariy Master..." It sits here for quite a while, and then eventually flys through the remaining items (Primary Slave, Secondary Master/Slave, etc) and goes to the Summary screen (where it displays a table with the installed hardware), and then boots to Windows. I haven't worked with this motherboard before now, but it seems to take way too long. Have any of you seen this or do you have any suggestions on how I can speed this up? QuickBoot is enabled in the BIOS. The motherboad is an ASRocks K7VM4 with an Athlon XP 2500+ and an older 10G western digital harddrive. Thank you for the help. BP |
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On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:06:11 GMT, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "BP" wrote : Hello. My new motheboard is taking quite a while to post. When I first power it on, it pauses on the screen that displays the American Mega Trands BIOS version. The message it sits on is "Detecting Primariy Master..." It sits here for quite a while, and then eventually flys through the remaining items (Primary Slave, Secondary Master/Slave, etc) and goes to the Summary screen (where it displays a table with the installed hardware), and then boots to Windows. I haven't worked with this motherboard before now, but it seems to take way too long. Have any of you seen this or do you have any suggestions on how I can speed this up? QuickBoot is enabled in the BIOS. The motherboad is an ASRocks K7VM4 with an Athlon XP 2500+ and an older 10G western digital harddrive. Thank you for the help. BP Get all the parameters of the hard drives and enter them manually instead of using Auto? Also, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/hard.html HTH -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html email shepATpartyheld.de Free songs download, http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:06:11 GMT, "BP"
wrote: Hello. My new motheboard is taking quite a while to post. When I first power it on, it pauses on the screen that displays the American Mega Trands BIOS version. The message it sits on is "Detecting Primariy Master..." It sits here for quite a while, and then eventually flys through the remaining items (Primary Slave, Secondary Master/Slave, etc) and goes to the Summary screen (where it displays a table with the installed hardware), and then boots to Windows. I haven't worked with this motherboard before now, but it seems to take way too long. Have any of you seen this or do you have any suggestions on how I can speed this up? QuickBoot is enabled in the BIOS. The motherboad is an ASRocks K7VM4 with an Athlon XP 2500+ and an older 10G western digital harddrive. Thank you for the help. BP Did you have that WD HDD as a single drive before, then added a slave this time, but didn't move the jumper from single to master w/slave position? That's (or other jumper misconfig) a common cause, along with dying drives or power supplies that are insufficient to spin-up the drives fast enough. Dave |
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Dave,
The HDD jumper was set to Master, but it was the only device on the cable. I thought it didn't matter if it was the only device on the cable. Once I moved the jumper to Single it posted instantly! Thank you for the help. BP "kony" wrote in message ... On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:06:11 GMT, "BP" wrote: Hello. My new motheboard is taking quite a while to post. When I first power it on, it pauses on the screen that displays the American Mega Trands BIOS version. The message it sits on is "Detecting Primariy Master..." It sits here for quite a while, and then eventually flys through the remaining items (Primary Slave, Secondary Master/Slave, etc) and goes to the Summary screen (where it displays a table with the installed hardware), and then boots to Windows. I haven't worked with this motherboard before now, but it seems to take way too long. Have any of you seen this or do you have any suggestions on how I can speed this up? QuickBoot is enabled in the BIOS. The motherboad is an ASRocks K7VM4 with an Athlon XP 2500+ and an older 10G western digital harddrive. Thank you for the help. BP Did you have that WD HDD as a single drive before, then added a slave this time, but didn't move the jumper from single to master w/slave position? That's (or other jumper misconfig) a common cause, along with dying drives or power supplies that are insufficient to spin-up the drives fast enough. Dave |
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