EP45-DS3R boots slow! whats wrong?

[Bunnywinkles]

My motherboard hangs right after the DMI pool verification. It does that, skips a line, and doesnt do anything else for like a minute. Im hoping this isnt normal. I have checked all drive settings that i can think of, have booted with just the hard drive. Non-RAID setup, only one sata drive. One IDE DVD drive, but have already tried without that hooked up. tried with F8 and F6 BIOS. any ideas?

[sford]

Re: EP45-DS3R boots slow! whats wrong?

Are you looking at multiple boot devices (floppy, cd, network, then hd)?

Turn em all off (if you are)

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: EP45-DS3R boots slow! whats wrong?

Does your system actually load or not? Are you using or have set AHCI?

[GIGABYTE - Janus Yeh]

Re: EP45-DS3R boots slow! whats wrong?

how long it takes?

[Bunnywinkles]

Re: EP45-DS3R boots slow! whats wrong?

HDD is set to boot first.

Yes it does boot.

Spends about 30 seconds to 1 minute at/just after the DMI Pool.

Once it begins to load vista, it flys, like its booted within 5 seconds of seeing the first vista boot screen, but while still in the BIOS it takes 1 minute +. To me this is an extremely slow boot after coming from a 478 board that was booted to desktop in under 20s. RAM is fine, and has been reseated. Hard drive is from the 478 system, AHCI is NOT set, no raid. Just one drive. thanks for all help :]

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: EP45-DS3R boots slow! whats wrong?

Can you post a image for me of your Advanced BIOS page?

Should be set as follows >>>

SATA RAID/AHCI Mode__________ [Disabled]
SATA Port0-3 Mode____________ [Enabled]

[Bunnywinkles]

Re: EP45-DS3R boots slow! whats wrong?

i dont have a cam but give me a couple min and ill type it up

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: EP45-DS3R boots slow! whats wrong?

Well just those two I mentioned would matter. If they are not set as that then that is your issue. So please set them as shown above.

Other then that you may need to check your disk health to see if it is dying >>>


DRIVE HEALTH: The Hard Disk analysing and monitoring tool based on the S.M.A.R.T. technology. Allows you to predict HDD failure and prevent losing critical data.

Also, do you have a jumper on the back of your drive? If so Remove it

And have you installed the latest Intel Chipset Drivers >>>
Download Software, Drivers and Utilities Filters

[Bunnywinkles]

Re: EP45-DS3R boots slow! whats wrong?

I think you mean Intregrated Peripherals

SATA RAID/AHCI: Disabled
SATA Port3-0 Native mode: Disabled
USB controller: Enabled
USB 2.0 controller: Enabled
USB Keyboard Support: Disabled
USB Mouse: disabled
Legacy USB storage detect: enabled
Azalia Codec: Auto
1394, LAN 1 and 2 all enabled
Green LAN: Disabled
LAN1 and 2 boot rom disabled
IDE controller enabled
serial port 1 and parallel: enabled

Just did a flash last night so all is defaults. problem existed before flash too

[Bunnywinkles]

Re: EP45-DS3R boots slow! whats wrong?

yea i just changed them to what you had them at, they were set like that before but like i said just reflashed.

will try new chipset drivers and ill check my HDD.

thanks for the help

EDIT: The drive doesnt have jumpers :]

[Bunnywinkles]

Re: EP45-DS3R boots slow! whats wrong?

says my drives health is 100%

[Bunnywinkles]

Re: EP45-DS3R boots slow! whats wrong?

And have you installed the latest Intel Chipset Drivers >>>
Download Software, Drivers and Utilities Filters

Uhm, what chipset do i want? i dont see P45 or ICH10

found it at gigabytes site

[jrboddie]

Re: EP45-DS3R boots slow! whats wrong?

If you are booting to XP or Vista, I recommend:

SATA Port3-0 Native mode: Enabled

and

Legacy USB storage detect: Disabled

[Lsdmeasap]

Re: EP45-DS3R boots slow! whats wrong?

You just choose your system and download and install infinst_autol.exe

This is what you should use >>>
SATA RAID/AHCI Mode__________ [Disabled]
SATA Port0-3 Mode____________ [Enabled]

[Bunnywinkles]

Re: EP45-DS3R boots slow! whats wrong?

Thanks for the help but... i went and did some errands came back and computer was in a continous reboot... which as i look around seems to be a problem with this board... couldnt get it to come out of it so called newegg and the boards getting RMAed and replaced with a Biostar TPower I45. Sorry Gigabyte, but this board was too much of a hassle.