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JimS
Flightless Bird
I changed out my Mobo for an exact duplicate make and model (Intel D875PBZ),
with duplicate BIOS, etc. Ever since doing that, there's a roughly 160
second delay from the time I hear BIOS confirm POST with a single BEEP and
the time I see the low-res progress meter sweep across the screen as XP
begins to boot. I'm running XP Pro and booting from the C drive (Primary
Master IDE).
I've tried messing around with all of the settings in BIOS I could think of.
E.g., I've set it up so that the C drive was the only POSSIBLE boot device
(removing floppy's, opticals, USB devices, etc.). I've flashed, reflashed,
and reflashed again the BIOS to the latest version, but nothing helps.
Interestingly, when I do boot from a floppy (e.g., with memtest86 on it),
there is no such delay. Spinrite tells me that my C drive is completely
healthy. I've run it and scandisk and defrag on it, all to no avail. Of
possible interest, once it DOES start to boot, it performs normally. No
noticeable change in performance or any weirdness.
Any ideas of what I should try next?
Thanks,
JS
with duplicate BIOS, etc. Ever since doing that, there's a roughly 160
second delay from the time I hear BIOS confirm POST with a single BEEP and
the time I see the low-res progress meter sweep across the screen as XP
begins to boot. I'm running XP Pro and booting from the C drive (Primary
Master IDE).
I've tried messing around with all of the settings in BIOS I could think of.
E.g., I've set it up so that the C drive was the only POSSIBLE boot device
(removing floppy's, opticals, USB devices, etc.). I've flashed, reflashed,
and reflashed again the BIOS to the latest version, but nothing helps.
Interestingly, when I do boot from a floppy (e.g., with memtest86 on it),
there is no such delay. Spinrite tells me that my C drive is completely
healthy. I've run it and scandisk and defrag on it, all to no avail. Of
possible interest, once it DOES start to boot, it performs normally. No
noticeable change in performance or any weirdness.
Any ideas of what I should try next?
Thanks,
JS