K7S5A Pro: long pause after post

[holo]

Hi there,

I just baught a new ECS K7S5A Pro motherboard for my machine. I boot of a
adaptec 29160 scsi card. Once the system posts it will hang for exactly 65
seconds before the OS starts. Once the OS starts everything works
perfectly.

I did a search on Google and someone else had the issue, but the thread
never resolved the individuals problem.

If anyone can shed any light on the problem, it would be great.

thanks.

 

[Hackworth]

Hi there,

I just bought a new ECS K7S5A Pro motherboard for my machine. I boot of a
adaptec 29160 scsi card. Once the system posts it will hang for exactly 65
seconds before the OS starts. Once the OS starts everything works
perfectly.

I have an Intel chipset motherboard and I boot from a Promise UltraATA/133
TX2 card. Same thing. I don't know if there's a correlation, but it takes a
good minute for Win XP to boot once the splash screen appears. I'm running
the latest driver versions but have never been able to resolve the problem.
As in your case, everything is fine after Win XP finally loads.

 

[Larry R Harrison Jr]

I actually bought the same board and it would only fire up the CPU (and
power-supply) fans--no video at all. I don't know if it's the CPU or the
board itself. (The memory & video cards are fine; I know that for sure.) I
gave up and bought an ABIT KD7 which worked perfectly on the 1st try.

Tips?

LRH

 

[BudMan]

Do you have any USB drives connected to the computer when it boots up? I
noticed that my computer boots slower when I have my USB card reader
connected to the computer and the BIOS is set to boot from removable drives.
I did not find this out until I left a compact flash card in the card reader
and restarted the computer. It treated the CF card as a floppy and gave the
error message "not a bootable drive".

 

[Jerry Turba]

This is just a guess from the symptoms that you report: It seems the bios
is confused and trying to sort out which device to boot from.

1. Have you disabled any other drives in the bios that you are not using?
2. I assume the scsi drive is set as the first in boot order in the bios.
3. I don't have much experience with scsi but are the drive/s identified
properly. Might your bios be going up and down the scsi chain looking for
a bootable drive?
HTH
jerry