New ASUS A8NE MB slowwww boot

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Flash

I just installed this MB a few days ago. Upon boot it sits on the bios
flash screen for about 1-2 minutes. The system sluggishly continues the
startup process and appears to be stable during operation.

I do not know what I should do to troubleshoot on this MB to resolve
the slow booting when there are no complaints.

There is only one thing that I have not done and that is changing the
power supply, the user guide suggests that a power supply less than
360W may destable the MB, currently I have a 350W power supply. Could
the slow boot be related to the power supply?

Any suggestions?
 
Flash said:
I just installed this MB a few days ago. Upon boot it sits on the bios
flash screen for about 1-2 minutes. The system sluggishly continues the
startup process and appears to be stable during operation.

I do not know what I should do to troubleshoot on this MB to resolve
the slow booting when there are no complaints.

There is only one thing that I have not done and that is changing the
power supply, the user guide suggests that a power supply less than
360W may destable the MB, currently I have a 350W power supply. Could
the slow boot be related to the power supply?

Any suggestions?
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If you haven't formatted the hard drive yet, do so.

If you HAVE formatted the hard drive, try resetting CMOS. -Dave
 
It's searching for something.Maybe an onboard device that is enabled in the
BIOS but has no drivers installed yet.Used to happen to me with an onboard
NIC.
 
Flash said:
I just installed this MB a few days ago. Upon boot it sits on the bios
flash screen for about 1-2 minutes. The system sluggishly continues
the startup process and appears to be stable during operation.
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I do not know what I should do to troubleshoot on this MB
to resolve the slow booting when there are no complaints.
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Try disabling sata in the bios if you dont have any sata drives.

That can slow the boot down, searching for sata drives if there arent any.
There is only one thing that I have not done and that is changing the
power supply, the user guide suggests that a power supply less than
360W may destable the MB, currently I have a 350W power supply.
Could the slow boot be related to the power supply?
Unlikely.

Any suggestions?
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See above.
 
Rod Speed said:
Try disabling sata in the bios if you dont have any sata drives.

That can slow the boot down, searching for sata drives if there arent any.


See above.
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Either disable the flash screen in BIOS or press Tab key so you can see
where is slow. Enable Fast Boot in BIOS as full memory test can take ages.
Mike.
 
Michael said:
Either disable the flash screen in BIOS or press Tab key so you can see
where is slow. Enable Fast Boot in BIOS as full memory test can take ages.
Mike.
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Disabled flash screen in BIOS, system appears to be hanging while
detecting IDEs. HDs are formatted. I moved them to another computer,
they are detected immediately and the WDC diagnostic software report no
errors. In addition, I have changed IDE cables on the ASUS MB and no
change.
 
Flash said:
Disabled flash screen in BIOS, system appears to be hanging while
detecting IDEs. HDs are formatted. I moved them to another computer,
they are detected immediately and the WDC diagnostic software report
no errors. In addition, I have changed IDE cables on the ASUS MB and
no change.
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What about SATA in the bios ?
 
Flash said:
I forgot, SATA is disabled.
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Are the drives jumpered correctly ? If they
arent, that can slow down the drive detection.

If they are jumpered correctly try the alternate config,
cable select if you arent using that, master/slave if you are.

If that doesnt help, try different pairing on the same ribbon cable.
You can see some pairs slow to identify themselves to the bios.
 
Rod said:
Are the drives jumpered correctly ? If they
arent, that can slow down the drive detection.

If they are jumpered correctly try the alternate config,
cable select if you arent using that, master/slave if you are.

If that doesnt help, try different pairing on the same ribbon cable.
You can see some pairs slow to identify themselves to the bios.
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So far, changing jumpers on IDE1 to cable select jumps past initial
bios delay of IDE detection at the blink of an eye, however, now it
stops booting after listing PCI devices. I will continue to change
jumpers, IDE ribbons, parings, until hopefully this behavior stops.

Thanks
 
Flash said:
So far, changing jumpers on IDE1 to cable select jumps past initial
bios delay of IDE detection at the blink of an eye, however, now it
stops booting after listing PCI devices. I will continue to change
jumpers, IDE ribbons, parings, until hopefully this behavior stops.

Thanks
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Never mind. As soon as I hit "post message" a windows prompt popped up,
it can't find OS files. I need to run recovery and see where that takes
me.

thanks again
 
Flash said:
Never mind. As soon as I hit "post message" a windows prompt popped up,
it can't find OS files. I need to run recovery and see where that takes
me.

thanks again
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Everthing seems fine so far. In the end on IDE0 where there were two
WDC drives, setting jumpers to cable select worked and on IDE1 where
there were two CDROMs, setting jumpers to M/S worked.

thanks to all that responded
 
Flash said:
Everthing seems fine so far. In the end on IDE0 where there were two
WDC drives, setting jumpers to cable select worked and on IDE1 where
there were two CDROMs, setting jumpers to M/S worked.

thanks to all that responded
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Thanks for the washup, too rare in my opinion.
 
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