A7N8X2.0 booting problems

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This topic was started by espadav8, 2003-09-30 10:45

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espadav8

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#21801

2003-09-30 10:45

I've just got this new motherboard and a new 160GB SATA drive. I installed WinXP with no problems yet after a reboot windows won't load. I've set the BIOS to boot from every device possible and still nothing.

I found a bad way around it which requires the WinXP CD to be in the drive. If I don't press a key to run the setup then windows will load fine. I assume that I haven't set a BIOS option correctly but after looking through every setting many times I'm still at a loss.

Specs
ASUS A7N8X V2.0 Delxue
1GB DDR400 RAM
160GB SATA Maxtor Hard Drive
PowerColor 256MB Radon 9600 Pro
IDE DVD-ROM + CD-RW

I'm also planning to include my older 60GB as the Primary Master IDE altought I still want windows to boot off the SATA drive, incase this makes any difference.

Any help and ideas about what I should do will be greatly recived

problem with ram :(

ide v sata

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shitshot

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#21802

2003-09-30 10:58

Hi

First device you're booting from is the CD I am assuming
then go it to bios

and make sure the next device that boots is SCSI
then enable SATA in the bios then your done.
:hail:

espadav8

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#21803

2003-09-30 11:03

I've tried booting from SCSI but nothing happened after the POST completed. The SATA drive is detected, and so is enabled on the motherboard, but I might be missing an option to enable booting from it in the BIOS. Would you happen to know where this?

Thanks
Andy

shitshot

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#21804

2003-09-30 11:09

should be in the peripherals section

espadav8

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#21805

2003-09-30 11:51

ok, thanks, it now loads windows, although it does wait at the "Verifying DMI Pool Data" for about 30 seconds though. Not sure why this is but at least it loads.

Thanks again

GarrettSocling

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#21806

2003-09-30 21:30

Isn't there a 'try other boot devices' option? Maybe that does something useful like move to the next device if the first is unavailable...

Maybe that is old BIOS I am thinking of..

Dunno.

G

espadav8

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#21807

2003-10-01 18:55

Yeah, there is that option in the BIOS and it's enabled but the booting process still hangs at the "Verfying DMI Pool Data" for about 30 seconds before loading windows.

Thanks again