Abit IS& Boot Problem

[Les Conner]

Have recently assembled IS7/2.8GHz P4/OZC DDR PC3500EL 256x2/80G Segate SATA/Etc system (Win2K) and have a couple of questions.
-- Having an issue with the initial (cold) boot crashing. Goes through post, etc but when its ready to load Win2k it gives an error saying it can't find the harddrive. If I give it the 3 finger salute at this point it reboots and goes ahead and loads windows without issue. Suspect either a HD problem or a bios setting issue but can't seem to find anything that corrects the issue in bios. Any clues/comments welcome.

Thx

 

[TomG]

don't know if you are overclocking but if you are, be sure to lock the PCI/AGP bus at 33/66.

otherwise, there can be some memory stability issues at work here. believe it or not, you might actually gain stability by overclocking that cpu and setting the NB strap to 800, then selecting 5:4 for the ram ratio. increase the ram voltage slightly to 2.65 or 2.70 and that may help as well. again, be sure to lock the PCI/AGP busses.

on the advanced chipset features page of the bios, you can try to tighten the RAM timings but that should come after you have gotten the system stable with the ram set to by spd.

 

[Shane Davenport]

I am having the same problem with my Seagate120MB Serial ATA.

Shane

"Les Conner" wrote:

Have recently assembled IS7/2.8GHz P4/OZC DDR PC3500EL 256x2/80G Segate SATA/Etc system (Win2K) and have a couple of questions.
-- Having an issue with the initial (cold) boot crashing. Goes through post, etc but when its ready to load Win2k it gives an error saying it can't find the harddrive. If I give it the 3 finger salute at this point it reboots and goes ahead and loads windows without issue. Suspect either a HD problem or a bios setting issue but can't seem to find anything that corrects the issue in bios. Any clues/comments welcome.

Thx

 

[Shane Davenport]

What version of the bios are you using? I just dropped my system back to 10 from 13 and the problem is fixed.

Later,
Shane

"Shane Davenport" wrote:

I am having the same problem with my Seagate120MB Serial ATA.

Shane

"Les Conner" wrote:

Have recently assembled IS7/2.8GHz P4/OZC DDR PC3500EL 256x2/80G Segate SATA/Etc system (Win2K) and have a couple of questions.
-- Having an issue with the initial (cold) boot crashing. Goes through post, etc but when its ready to load Win2k it gives an error saying it can't find ... or a
bios setting issue but can't seem to find anything that corrects the issue in bios. Any clues/comments welcome.

Thx