Long boottime on A8V Deluxe

[Sune H.]

Hi NG

Im experiencing a loooong boottime on my Asus A8V Deluxe MB. Right after the
board has detectet the connected IDE devices the screen goes black and a
flashing cursor is seen in the left corner of the screen.. The black screen
stays for about 10-15 sec. and then WinXP boots just fine and the system
works great.

Those 15-20 sec are annoying! It seems like the MB is waiting for something
but I can't figurer out what??

I've tried the flowing:
- Turned on/off the onboard controllers (Raid SATA, promise etc.) one by on.
- Updated the bios from ver. 1008 to 1009.
- Loaded Bios Setup Defaults.

No change at all....

-
A friend of mine has the same MB and is also experiencing this Black screen,
but only for a few seconds. Our systems are almost the same except that he
is running a SATA HD where mine is an ATA HD.


Anyone got any ideas to what could cause this?


Thanks in anvance for any answers

Regards
Sune - Denmark

 

[Sune H.]

The black screen stays for about 10-15 sec. and then WinXP boots just fine

and the system works great.

Those 15-20 sec are annoying! It seems like the MB is waiting for
something but I can't figurer out what??

Actually I've just used a stopwatch on this blackscreen and it said 30
sec...!! That just can't be right!

My old Asus P4PE could boot all into WinXP frem cold in 30-40sec.. This
takes over af minute because of this.


/Sune

 

[PC]

Actually I've just used a stopwatch on this blackscreen and it said 30
sec...!! That just can't be right!

This is a wild guess...

Is the boot rom enabled on the on board network card? Maybe it's
looking if it can boot that way and that's the delay you're having?
Kinda like the delay one can have when the network cable is
disconnected and Windows tries to reach a DHCP server...

Good luck!

 

[Jouko Malmberg]

Actually I've just used a stopwatch on this blackscreen and it said 30
sec...!! That just can't be right!

My old Asus P4PE could boot all into WinXP frem cold in 30-40sec.. This
takes over af minute because of this.


/Sune

Have you cd-rom drive in slave- mode and not master drive? Set the drive to
master- mode!



JM

 

[milleron]

This is a wild guess...

Is the boot rom enabled on the on board network card? Maybe it's
looking if it can boot that way and that's the delay you're having?
Kinda like the delay one can have when the network cable is
disconnected and Windows tries to reach a DHCP server...

Good luck!

You can see problems like this IF there's an enabled but unconnected
NIC -- the boot pauses while a network connection is searched for. If
the original poster has one of the many boards with two built-in
network adapters and one or both are not plugged in, the unused one(s)
should be disabled in BIOS. OP, please give us some feedback on the
suggestions made so far. Thanks.
Ron

 

[Sune H.]

This is a wild guess...

You can see problems like this IF there's an enabled but unconnected
NIC -- the boot pauses while a network connection is searched for. If
the original poster has one of the many boards with two built-in
network adapters and one or both are not plugged in, the unused one(s)
should be disabled in BIOS. OP, please give us some feedback on the
suggestions made so far. Thanks.
Ron

I've solved the problem..

It wasn't a NIC problem, but that did get me on the right track..so thank
you very much )

The problem consisted in a CD-rom drive connected to the onboard VIA IDE
controller, but not connected to the power.. As soon as I disconnect this
drive from the IDE controller or plug in power to the drive, the black
"waiting" screen is goon...

I've newer experienced this before on any other Asus board, but somehow the
VIA controller detectes something and maybe waits for it to spin up...which
it'll newer do and the timeout is proberly around 30sec..

/Sune - Denmark