Well, here is an interesting one...
I just got a new motherboard (NFII), memory (PMI 3200), SATA HDD (Segate 120GB) and put it in my computer. When I booted up my computer, it hung at the point where the Windows logo comes up. The bar kept moving, but after 20 minutes I finally just turned it off and started over... I put my WindowsPE boot disk (really nice!) in and did some drive checks. I was loading some PowerQuest program and it said that the geometry on my HDD (the old IDE one, working fine before MB replacement) was bad and that I had to reformat/partition. So I said there is now way for that route, trying to save all data that I could.
After countless re-installs of Windows on either HDD (took for ever for me to finally get the SATA one to boot, the old one wanted to boot all of the time, loaded the correct SCSI/RAID drivers at the first windows install screen, and finally got it installed it hung again. I tweaked some settings in CMOS and it went through the last proccesses of instillation. Only to hang on the next restart. Then It dawned on me. It would work only on the times that I changed something in CMOS... I have never heard of this happening... But I restarted, changed 1 setting in CMOS then changed it back, and voila... It booted.
I have all the correct settings in CMOS, everything is installed correctly. But it will only boot each time I change something in CMOS and save it... I cant find, or didn't look hard enough for a tech support on DFI's main page. But I was wondering if a BIOS update would help in this case.
I wanted to see if any of you out there have had this problem before and were able to fix it. I am certainly confused.
~Thanks
MB: DFI Ultra Infinity
CPU: Barton 2500+
MEM: PMI Platinum PC3200
HDD: Samsung IDE 80GB
SATA Segate 120GB
VID: 9600XT
I just got a new motherboard (NFII), memory (PMI 3200), SATA HDD (Segate 120GB) and put it in my computer. When I booted up my computer, it hung at the point where the Windows logo comes up. The bar kept moving, but after 20 minutes I finally just turned it off and started over... I put my WindowsPE boot disk (really nice!) in and did some drive checks. I was loading some PowerQuest program and it said that the geometry on my HDD (the old IDE one, working fine before MB replacement) was bad and that I had to reformat/partition. So I said there is now way for that route, trying to save all data that I could.
After countless re-installs of Windows on either HDD (took for ever for me to finally get the SATA one to boot, the old one wanted to boot all of the time, loaded the correct SCSI/RAID drivers at the first windows install screen, and finally got it installed it hung again. I tweaked some settings in CMOS and it went through the last proccesses of instillation. Only to hang on the next restart. Then It dawned on me. It would work only on the times that I changed something in CMOS... I have never heard of this happening... But I restarted, changed 1 setting in CMOS then changed it back, and voila... It booted.
I have all the correct settings in CMOS, everything is installed correctly. But it will only boot each time I change something in CMOS and save it... I cant find, or didn't look hard enough for a tech support on DFI's main page. But I was wondering if a BIOS update would help in this case.
I wanted to see if any of you out there have had this problem before and were able to fix it. I am certainly confused.
~Thanks
MB: DFI Ultra Infinity
CPU: Barton 2500+
MEM: PMI Platinum PC3200
HDD: Samsung IDE 80GB
SATA Segate 120GB
VID: 9600XT