Weird behavior

[Lead Head]

I have an old AXP board, now im setting up the rig, it posts, but the BIOS is extremely slow, it took about 45sec just to get into the bios, and if i click a menu like PC health, it will just freeze there, but not freeze, lik ethe temp/fan monitering will still change, but i can't exit the menu. THe only way out is a reset, it probably takes a good 2 minutes from POST to getting ready to boot. Any ideas/

 

[FragTek]

I have an old AXP board, now im setting up the rig, it posts, but the BIOS is extremely slow, it took about 45sec just to get into the bios, and if i click a menu like PC health, it will just freeze there, but not freeze, lik ethe temp/fan monitering will still change, but i can't exit the menu. THe only way out is a reset, it probably takes a good 2 minutes from POST to getting ready to boot. Any ideas/

Sounds like a memory instability problem mate... Sure the memory in it isnt botched? Try taking out a stick or alternating stick (if it has more than one) and see if it acts a bit nicer.

What kind of board is it anyhow mate?

 

[Lead Head]

Sounds like a memory instability problem mate... Sure the memory in it isnt botched? Try taking out a stick or alternating stick (if it has more than one) and see if it acts a bit nicer.

What kind of board is it anyhow mate?

I just pulled the ram out of my main rig

Its a Soyo SYK7ADA Socket A mobo, the mobo was just working fine ~2 months ago

 

[werty316]

Try running memtest86x and see if you get any memory errors.

 

[JN]

Try unplugging all non-essentials

- Hard Disk

- Cdrom

- Floppy

- Add-in cards (sound, network, modem etc)

I've seen the BIOS run flakey and slow when it's unable to detect the hard disk properly.

 

[Lead Head]

Try unplugging all non-essentials

- Hard Disk

- Cdrom

- Floppy

- Add-in cards (sound, network, modem etc)

I've seen the BIOS run flakey and slow when it's unable to detect the hard disk properly.

Already tried that...It detects the HD, but when it comes to actually booting it just says "INVALD BOOT DISK" i tried the HD in another system and it works perfectly..so..

 

[Raven]

tried with the harddrive on the secondary ide to se if the primary ide port has failed ?

is the harddrive detected correctly ?

also tried with another ide cable ? an 80wire.

 

[Lead Head]

tried with the harddrive on the secondary ide to se if the primary ide port has failed ?

is the harddrive detected correctly ?

also tried with another ide cable ? an 80wire.

Dunno..same config as yesterday, just started it up, still taking a while to detect the HD, went into the bios, it was going fast and not like freezing anymore, set it to boot from the HDD, restarted and it started booting windows...weird...

 

[FragTek]

Dunno..same config as yesterday, just started it up, still taking a while to detect the HD, went into the bios, it was going fast and not like freezing anymore, set it to boot from the HDD, restarted and it started booting windows...weird...

So the problem is sorted then?

 

[Lead Head]

yup seems like the PC fixed itself