Hey guys as you all know I was getting this new pc ,well it arrived and I set it up and all went smoothly except for the unusually long boot up sequence.
Well Lo and behold last night I re arrange the power cables in a way that only way the cables were not drawing power for multiple devices(i.e. Hard rive was in a single line , cd rom and vid card) Well the boot up problems went away and everything was fine I even played a couple of 3d games including Lomac and holy hell how cool it was the fps and the grafics .
Well last night I was having shut down problems and I had to use the power button to shut it off , and when I started it up again the same damned issue came back the long, long ,long, boot up sequence, the third time I boot it up it just hanged there detecting the drives.( It detected them it just hanged there)
To make a long story short I've tried the following connecting the Hardrives only with the power directly to the motherboard ,slow boot. Connecting the Cd Roms only, fast boot lets me access the setup screen quickly.
Only connecting the neccesarry equipment it worked but without getting into windows.
Done:
Updated BIOS
Used one memory stick at a time in all slots
Reset the BIOS.
I've noticed this only happens when the hard drive any of the two are connected to both the power and the IDE Slot on the Motherboard , I can have the power to them and the mother board doesn't feel it.
I've noticed however that my 3500 64 XP system voltage is at about 1.4V and it dips to about 1.38, so again I don't know whether it's a power issue, from the looks of it it isn't, or it's a hardware compatibility issue.
From what I've read in several forums this board is a pain to set up(thanks guys in the forums that recommended it
)
But once you do it screams and for the brief time I was able to play games last night I see how it does scream. I'm hoping to ( insert favorite deity) It isn't ther mother board itself since I know it works becuase it worked last night it just needs the right configuration.
Thank you kindly.
As always El 4 eyes.
Antec True Blue 480W PSU
Asus A8V Deluxe ( Latest realeased non beta bios)
AMD 3500 64 XP
2x 512 MB Corsair value ram(the 1 gb kit)
Radeon 9500 Pro
WD 250GB IDE HD
WD 20GB IDE HD
NEC DVD RW(forgot the model)
