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Old February 2nd 06, 04:08 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
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Default Boot problem (Asrock 939DUAL mobo)

I just put together a system for a friend using an Asrock 939Dual-SATA2
Socket 939 motherboard
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157081), 1 GB
dual-channel memory, an Athlon 64 3200+, a Maxtor 200GB SATA150 hard disk
drive, an ATI Radeon 9600 AGP video card, and onboard sound. There are no
other PCI card sinstalled yet.

Everything works perfectly *except* that it can never find the operating
system (Win XP SP2) on the first try when I cold boot. I always have to hit
the reset button.

I'm using the latest-and-greatest BIOS (1.05), all of the hardware drivers
are the latest versions, and I've played with every likely candidate in the
BIOS settings.

In the "old days," you could set a delay of 1-4 seconds in the BIOS to give
the hard disk a chance to spin up so that the boot firmware would read the
drive and load Windows. There is no equivalent setting on today's
motherboards, but it feels so much like that's what I need. Any ideas as to
what else I could try?


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Old February 3rd 06, 05:21 AM posted to alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
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"Hackworth" wrote in message
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I just put together a system for a friend using an Asrock 939Dual-SATA2
Socket 939 motherboard
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157081), 1 GB
dual-channel memory, an Athlon 64 3200+, a Maxtor 200GB SATA150 hard disk
drive, an ATI Radeon 9600 AGP video card, and onboard sound. There are no
other PCI card sinstalled yet.

Everything works perfectly *except* that it can never find the operating
system (Win XP SP2) on the first try when I cold boot. I always have to
hit
the reset button.

I'm using the latest-and-greatest BIOS (1.05), all of the hardware drivers
are the latest versions, and I've played with every likely candidate in
the
BIOS settings.

In the "old days," you could set a delay of 1-4 seconds in the BIOS to
give
the hard disk a chance to spin up so that the boot firmware would read the
drive and load Windows. There is no equivalent setting on today's
motherboards, but it feels so much like that's what I need. Any ideas as
to
what else I could try?


OK, I'm a pretty stubborn guy and I hate to give up, so I kept trying to get
this motherboard to boot up from the SATA hard disk. If all else failed, I
was just going to get a plain old PATA disk and boot from that.

The problem turned out to be related to the onboard SATA. Apparently, this
is an "issue" with this board, as lots of folks who own it have been having
cold boot problems when trying to boot from the onboard SATA... at least
with certain hard disks. Even the most recent BIOS doesn't seem to fix it...
there's some sort of timing thing going on.

So, to solve the problem, I just enabled the single onboard **SATA II**
connector and plugged the 200GB Maxtor into that thing... and it worked! I
can cold boot to my heart's content, and of course the other two (SATA I)
connectors are still available if the person for whom this system is
intended ever wants to add another SATA hard disk.

It was a pain in the butt and I wasted lots of time, but at least now I know
about the problem in case anyone else needs help with this thing.



 




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