GA-P35C-DS3R minor issue

[wolfhunter2]

I have had the GA-P35C-DS3R for over 2 weeks now, however i find whenever i restart or boot up, it seems to take forever for it to get past the POST results page. It just waits there for ever and ever...
(ok more like 10- 20 seconds)
The average time for me to boot into Vista with this motherboard is around 50 seconds, and the majority of the time is taken up by the POST screen showing the IRQ, and all other information.
Anyone having the same problem/know a solution.
Kind of running out of ideas here....

Although I must admit besides this issue i find this board is the best i've ever seen for the price. It works great office 07 takes less than a second to load with a q6600. And all these other issues people are having with the board, i dont know, its probably mis-assembly. Because mine works totally fine first time around

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: GA-P35C-DS3R minor issue

What are your settings in the MIT section? And are you using AHCI? If you are using AHCI that is your wait time.

I see the IRQ page for maybe 2-3 seconds if that, no AHCI

[wolfhunter2]

Re: GA-P35C-DS3R minor issue

By ACHI do u mean RAID?
Because i only have one 500 GB W.D HDD.

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: GA-P35C-DS3R minor issue

NO I mean AHCI, it is different then RAID. And you would have to have AHCI selected in the BIOS to be using it

Did you install a driver via F6 when you installed the OS? If so you likely may have installed the AHCI driver

[wolfhunter2]

Re: GA-P35C-DS3R minor issue

NO I mean AHCI, it is different then RAID. And you would have to have AHCI selected in the BIOS to be using it

Did you install a driver via F6 when you installed the OS? If so you likely may have installed the AHCI driver

No i didn't install a driver via F6.
However i was just thinking, the boot preference is set default to Floppy,HDD, CD. But i do not have a Floppy. Could it be that if i change this it will take less time. Because it could be that it is simply waiting for a floppy or something. I would try to but i have a cordless kb and unless i plug in another one it will not allow me to load the BIOS.

I really havent touched the BIOS for this reason. And stock standard settings.

Thanks

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: GA-P35C-DS3R minor issue

That could take off some seconds, you are right it is going to be looking for a floppy right after or when you still see the IRQ page

[VorLonUK]

Re: GA-P35C-DS3R minor issue

AHCI does add significant to the bootup time and is NOT enabled in the bios by default.
However you do not need to use the "F6" driver install method when installing Vista (well at least i didn't with Vista prem 64). Vista should install "straight out of the box", with ahci enabled or disabled.

Back to the original question - I would think something in your setup is being "queried" by the bios during POST for an extended time. This could be because something isn't correctly set, or a particular setting needs disabling or setup manually.

[wolfhunter2]

Re: GA-P35C-DS3R minor issue

Thanks all, the problem has been resolved (i believe)
I took ur advice and checked the RAID/AHCI settings to be disabled and then changed the boot order from floppy, HDD, CD to HDD,CD,Floppy.
The initaial boot i did not notice anything, however on the second boot the time was reduced from 12 seconds to 4 seconds.
Thankyou all, i appreciate your help.
:)

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: GA-P35C-DS3R minor issue

Sounds good. Ya know since you do not have a floppy you could just set the third device to disabled