Motherboard issue

[Pleurozium]

The motherboard on my system has just fried, so I've replaced it with a Asus A7S8X-MX. Previously I could boot my system in under 2 minutes, however since replacing the motherboard, it now takes 10+ minutes for windows to load. The only thing that's changed is this new motherboard (same processor, same amount of ram, all same hardware otherwise, and it has a fresh install of Windows XP). Any ideas what could cause this?

 

[jimp56]

IDE controller. delete it from device manager, reboot and load the proper drivers from the motherboard install/utility cdrom.

your ide channel was probably in PIO mode as opposed to UDMA (faster).

 

[Pleurozium]

Thank you jimp56. While this didn't completely fix the problem, it has improved it. 5 minutes to load windows doesn't annoy me quite as bad as over 10 did.

 

[jurgen36]

Which version of windows do you use? If Xp you will have to do a repair installation. Xp does not like changes in mobos.
Regards

Jurgen

 

[Pleurozium]

Jurgen,
It is Win XP, however as soon as I replaced the motherboard, I formatted the hard drive and reinstalled windows.

 

[jurgen36]

I really do not understand the xp boot up times. My system only takes 23 seconds to be able to input some commands. That is from a cold start. I heard of people complaining when it takes 35 second or so. If it took 2 minutes originally, I would say there is something wrong somewhere. There could be a problem with the bios setting, maybe the bios is sett up for pio 1 or something like this. I am almost sure it is a bios problem anyway. But even two minutes is way toooo kong.
Regards

Jurgen

 

[paparazi]

OK
Motherboard just fried! HOW? has the same thing that fried you motherboard (power surge?) also damaged another component?

When power supplies pop they often damage other parts, typically hard drives, CDroms and addon cards.

I would take your system back to a bare minimum configuration, pull out all addon cards , only leave one rom connected, one stick of ram, one hard drive, something is making the system hang, so by a process of elimination you should be able to determine what that is.

Martin


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[Pleurozium]

Thanks everyone for your help. I found the problem. The vendor gave me PC3200 ram for the motherboard and it is supposed to take PC2100 or PC2700. I replaced the ram with the proper speed - and now the system boots in under 30 seconds!