Boot Up Problems

[Guest_imported]

Okay, I'm having problems booting up, the boot goes extremely slow and the memory check seems to lag it almost checks the RAM in increments. I think my CMOS battery has taken an early retirement because it loses the changes I make in the BIOS as well. This would be understandable had I not bought the board no more than a month ago. Its a Asus A7V , 800 mhz Athlon, so on and so forth. It takes the OS nearly five minutes to load. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

 

[edfair]

Battery is not involved directly. However if in saving the CMOS a secondary drive is set but no drive installed then it would take a while for the system to get past the error. And the battery was installed in the factory, which might be a year shelf life away. Shouldn't be, but could be. Put a new one in. They are cheap and readily available.


Ed Fair
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[cfowler]

Sounds like there is something more here than the battery and a possible missing drive. If your memory is reading in increments and you are certain your memory is good, then you might wish to flash the bios with the latest version you can get your hands on. Remember to have a go at the Asus Tech site for the BIOS they supply you with may not be the most recent. Even if your drives are on auto detect, you shouldn't bare witness to more than 30 secs to boot or at least get through the POST / BIOS.

A good way to trouble shoot your problem may be to disconnect everything save the primary master HDD and enable the auto detect feature for your HDD detection. If you have a high performance IDE HDD and you place your CD ROM on the same IDE channel, it could very well confuse and slow down your BOOT sequence. However, if you remove everything and go at it one by one, you should eliminate a load of possibilities.

Hope this is helpfull to your cause.

CF