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| Thread ID: 27496 | 2002-11-24 02:10:00 | Strange BIOS behaviour (long post) | rossco (2600) | Press F1 |
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| 100791 | 2002-11-24 02:10:00 | Hi there, recently I have encountered the weirdest problems with my Award BIOS. Lately if I turn off the power to my PC and then turn it on again, the BIOS goes very slowly through the boot process and the BIOS/POST screens draw very slowly. Once in Windows (XP PRO) everything runs fine, also when I reboot it all goes as per normal, but if I switch it off, the BIOS has this major slowdown again. If I enter the BIOS and make no changes but save and exit, it all works fine again - until I turn it off and back on. Following is what happened before this started and what I have tried so far to rectify it with no success.. I installed a 4th HDD (attached to my Adaptec RAID card) I installed a 4 port USB 2.0 card and attached a Microsolutions BackPack HDD I installed OPUS Directory trial software With all this installed prior to this happening, naturally I thought I would methodically remove and uninstall them one by one then remove the lot, which I have done and still the problem does not go away. I have re-flashed the BIOS with the latest from the ASUS Website (ASUS Mobo), this still did not work so have reverted back to the original BIOS and still the problem persists. I have shorted the CMOS to clear it and reentered all the dates/times etc, plus reverted to BIOS defaults and still no fix. I have (as a long shot) performed FDISK /MBR and still no go. Where to from here?? I would really appreciate some help here!! Kind regards Rossco |
rossco (2600) | ||
| 100792 | 2002-11-24 02:23:00 | what mobo? cpu? ram? video card? whats it go like when the raid card is removed? |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 100793 | 2002-11-24 02:28:00 | some where in the bios is a setting for "enable fast boot" or "enable fast post" or some thing a bit like that......... make sure it is turned on. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 100794 | 2002-11-24 02:34:00 | That usually just misses out the RAM check. That can take a long tiome these days. (But it could be the cause. ;-) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 100795 | 2002-11-24 02:40:00 | Mobo = ASUS TUV4X CPU = Intel Tualatin PIII 1.13GHZ RAM = 1GB (2 x 512MB Sticks) Video Card = ASUS NVidia V8200 series 64MB RAM, AGP4x Still has the same problem when RAID card is removed? regards Rossco |
rossco (2600) | ||
| 100796 | 2002-11-24 02:52:00 | Thanks robsonde, tried that too - still no luck Cheers Rossco |
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