Need help with P4P800E Installation

[Malam]

I have just completed an installation of Asus P4P800E-Deluxe and need
some help:
1. After the installation of the board, I could not bootup until I did
a Windows-XP repair ? Why is this ?
2. fter the windows repair, some of my programmes didn't work. Things
are running very very slow. Mother board Monitor wont work anymore.
3. Even drive image is no longer working.
Before I blow everything and reinstall windows I wanted to know if this
is normal.
The Bios that came with the board is version 4. I tried to install the
update programme its not running either.
I have 2 pairs of OZ 2 512 DDR 400 installed and recongnized by the
bios.

Thanks.

 

[Tim]

Sounds like you need to install the chipset drivers then all other drivers
needed for your mobo.
Check the asus web site for more recent drivers.

Why did you need to do a repair? Well, just guessing, but it sounds like
your system disc came from a system with a motherbaord that had a different
chipset, so the original XP setup new nothing about this hardware - it knows
something now - but still does not have all the drivers needed.

If you look in Device Manager in Control Panel / System / Hardware you
probably have devices with yellow exclamation marks next to them - no
drivers.

- Tim

 

[Malam]

Thanks Tim. I did and have resolved most of the problems. However
bootup is still very, very slow.
After the initial bios display and windows shows :"Windows is starting
...." It takes 2 minutes and 28 seconds for the destktop to load. Any
suggestions ? There seems to be a long period of disk inactivity. I
noticed my primary slave hard drive is shown as a generic drive while
the master is shown as a Maxtor drive. Both drives have alsways been
shown with the proper Maxtor ID with my old motherboard. Also when I
reboot, my monitor goes blank and I have to unplugg and then plug back
in before its ok. Its like the monitor is on a sleep mode. There are
no yellow question marks on any item in the Device Manager. Could this
be related to a Bios setting ?

Thanks.

 

[DaveW]

If you change the motherboard being used in an XP OS computer, than you MUST
reformat the harddrive and do a fresh install of XP. Otherwise you get
nasty Registry errors and the types of problems you are seeing. And, yes,
you must then reinstall all your other programs.

 

[timmy]

run the diagnostic utility for the hard drive, you may have to boot
into dos or the to the cd-rom the utulities came on. Do a complete
analysis just to rule out a herd drive problem...which what this
sounds like...
fyi