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Asus A7N8X - Extremely long delay at boot time
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During the boot time, it takes an extremely long delay between the IDE and SCSI devices information. The reason is not the IDE devices detection because it is already done, nor the SCSI devices detection as the delay is before the Adaptec CTRLA message to enter into the BIOS. Nothing happens, no information displayed, just a very long moment (more than 1 minute) to wait. A7N8X rev 1.06 - BIOS rev 1007 Athlon XP 2000+ Memory 2 x 256 DDR400 Harddisk IDE Maxtor Diamond Plus Video Asus V6800 2930U SCSI Adapter Creative SB Live! 5.1 Digital (onboard audio disabled) Can somebody tell me whether it is normal or not and then why it is not ? Is there a way to reduce this delay ? Many Thanks Jean-Luc |
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Might be the hard drive. Simple way to check, unplug the ide cable and boot
up, if it goes fast then check the jumpers on the hd to make sure they are set correctly "JLM" wrote in message ... Hi, During the boot time, it takes an extremely long delay between the IDE and SCSI devices information. The reason is not the IDE devices detection because it is already done, nor the SCSI devices detection as the delay is before the Adaptec CTRLA message to enter into the BIOS. Nothing happens, no information displayed, just a very long moment (more than 1 minute) to wait. A7N8X rev 1.06 - BIOS rev 1007 Athlon XP 2000+ Memory 2 x 256 DDR400 Harddisk IDE Maxtor Diamond Plus Video Asus V6800 2930U SCSI Adapter Creative SB Live! 5.1 Digital (onboard audio disabled) Can somebody tell me whether it is normal or not and then why it is not ? Is there a way to reduce this delay ? Many Thanks Jean-Luc |
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I recently bought a new drive, Seagate 120GB PATA 8MB Cache, and plug it as
master and the "old" WD 120GB as a slave. There was a very long delay at boot up when I unplugged the power cable of the slave, just to assure that the software was correctly installed in the new disk because the old one still have the windows XP installed. I fix that delay when I plugged again the slave disk. Make sure that you have all cables correctly (power and ata/ide) plugged in, if that doesn't solve your problem consider to clear CMOS. BTW, I have the same board (rev. 1.06) with latest bios 1007 |
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"sigmun" escreveu na mensagem
... Make sure that you have all cables correctly (power and ata/ide) plugged in, and disk jumpers, this is important |
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First, disabling "press Ctrl-A key..." during SCSI boot shortens the
operation. I don't know why. Second, did you recently install a new SCSI peripheral? If yes, did you verify all the SCSI parms in the SCSI setup ? Ctrl-A key (or Ctrl-Q on AZERTY keyboards) then navigate in the menus. Hé hé Jean-Luc, tu as un clavier AZERTY, je le vois d'ici ! Especially, you need to have the correct sync mode ... It's possible also that the new peripheral doesn't match the current SCSI settings. Third, do check your SCSI terminator if correctly placed and if no bad contacts. Remove and inspect it. Of course, unpluging every SCSI connector and inspecting it should not be harmful ! "David" a écrit dans le message news: u1gSb.322838$JQ1.298688@pd7tw1no... Might be the hard drive. Simple way to check, unplug the ide cable and boot up, if it goes fast then check the jumpers on the hd to make sure they are set correctly "JLM" wrote in message ... Hi, During the boot time, it takes an extremely long delay between the IDE and SCSI devices information. The reason is not the IDE devices detection because it is already done, nor the SCSI devices detection as the delay is before the Adaptec CTRLA message to enter into the BIOS. Nothing happens, no information displayed, just a very long moment (more than 1 minute) to wait. A7N8X rev 1.06 - BIOS rev 1007 Athlon XP 2000+ Memory 2 x 256 DDR400 Harddisk IDE Maxtor Diamond Plus Video Asus V6800 2930U SCSI Adapter Creative SB Live! 5.1 Digital (onboard audio disabled) Can somebody tell me whether it is normal or not and then why it is not ? Is there a way to reduce this delay ? Many Thanks Jean-Luc |
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"JLM" wrote in message ...
Hi, During the boot time, it takes an extremely long delay between the IDE and SCSI devices information. The reason is not the IDE devices detection because it is already done, nor the SCSI devices detection as the delay is before the Adaptec CTRLA message to enter into the BIOS. Nothing happens, no information displayed, just a very long moment (more than 1 minute) to wait. A7N8X rev 1.06 - BIOS rev 1007 Athlon XP 2000+ Memory 2 x 256 DDR400 Harddisk IDE Maxtor Diamond Plus Video Asus V6800 2930U SCSI Adapter Creative SB Live! 5.1 Digital (onboard audio disabled) Can somebody tell me whether it is normal or not and then why it is not ? Is there a way to reduce this delay ? Many Thanks Jean-Luc This may be entirely wrong, but I remember that when I had an Adaptec 2930U SCSI controller card I had the same problem. It was caused by the controller searching every possible scsi address to see if there was a device out there and it would sometimes wait a long time when it was doing this. As I recall, I was able to solve it by going into the SCSI BIOS during boot-up and disabling one of the options. I remember that the answer came from a Minolta SCSI film scanner FAQ note. Arnie |
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Thanks you all,
The jumper setting of the IDE was wrong (cable select enabled). I remove it, then the IDE detection is faster and I have now delay at all. JLM |
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