A7N8X-Deluxe and SATA boot

wrote:
Thanks to all for your suggestions.
Upgrading the bios on my V2 board from 1005 to 1007 appeared to solve the
problem.

There are various significant improvements in 1007 over 1005, which is why I
recommended the update. Notably the updated SATA BIOS.

I can now load the ghost image of my XP boot system from the PATA drive to
the SATA drive, and by changing the boot order to SCSI first, the SATA
drive boots without the lengthy wait after the DMI pool message.

I also note that the bios POST message has changed, reporting only the
SATA drive installed rather than what is in each of the two possible SATA
slots.

That's not the POST, that's the SATA BIOS screen... and yes, that's a
specific change that has been noted before... it seems to take less time to
realise that a drive is not there.

You may also find that it now reports Dual or Single Channel mode for the
memory, which you may not have had before.

Ensure you are using the latest SATA drivers too... they're linked from my
FAQ below:

Glad you solved the problem.

Ben
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