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| Thread ID: 60546 | 2005-08-05 04:42:00 | DMA Transfer setting in BIOS | pctek (84) | Press F1 |
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| 378397 | 2005-08-05 04:42:00 | Anyone ever come across this one: A7v8x-mx. BIOS setting for onchip IDE - IDE DMA Transfer. The setting was disabled. This won't let a fresh XP install boot. You get Disk Error was encountered CTRL-ALT-DEL to restart. Not a blue screen, just a normal DOS error. Enable that in the BIOS and everythings happy. With 2 drives - the old one and a brand new Seagate. A BIOS update didn't help. ASUS techs said they had never heard of it either but RMA the board. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 378398 | 2005-08-05 08:35:00 | ???? you set the correct setting and it works, whats the problem?? |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 378399 | 2005-08-05 09:15:00 | ???? you set the correct setting and it works, whats the problem?? Everey time the PC reboots it loses the setting again. The BIOS won't keep it. It keeps all other settings however. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 378400 | 2005-08-05 09:28:00 | drive on auto? set it manually and see if it loses it. could be a hardrive fault, check for firmware upgrade. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 378401 | 2005-08-05 09:36:00 | drive on auto? set it manually and see if it loses it. could be a hardrive fault, check for firmware upgrade. Manual - auto - whatever. Doesn't matter. And 2 different drives - one a brnad new Seagate. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 378402 | 2005-08-05 10:42:00 | tried "reset hardware" ?? is it remebering any other changes ? | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 378403 | 2005-08-05 10:52:00 | Everey time the PC reboots it loses the setting again. The BIOS won't keep it. It keeps all other settings however. As I said. And as the ASUS techs said - they dunno either. A weird one. I think his boards iffy. He was having some other issues with network too earlier. Which was what started all this anyway. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 378404 | 2005-08-05 11:03:00 | ohh......other issues as well.....looks like faulty board then. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 378405 | 2005-08-05 20:04:00 | Yeah probably. But why should it being disabled even cause "disk error" and no boot. It should boot up at least...odd. | pctek (84) | ||
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