I have a ASRock 775i65G motherboard, and it's taking about 10 seconds to POST. That's 10 seconds between powering up and bringing up the graphics card BIOS! I bought a second board in the event the other one was faulty, but it exhibits the same behaviour. I'm using the following hardware:
E6600 Core 2 Duo CPU + Zalman CNPS 9500-AT cooler
2x512MB Corsair TwinX XMS PC3200 DDR memory modules
Corsair HX520W power supply
2 Western Digital hard disk drives (WD800JB + WD3200JB)
2 Plextor Optical drives (16x10x40A + PX-760A)
Terratec Phase 22 PCI audio interface
Unibrain Fireblue Firewire PCI interface + Hercules 16/12FW firewire audio interface
Windows XP Home OEM.
The first board I bought also would, on some occasions, not POST and just shut down by itself! I was originally using an Akasa Paxpower 400W PSU, and assumed it wasn't enough. So the Corsair one went in... with the same results! So that prompted me to try a second board (I'll RMA the other one at some point, because it's clearly faulty), but whilst I don't seem to get the sudden shutting down, it still takes damned ages to POST.
Another post on this forum suggested trying a different RAM arrangement, however mine are a matched pair and ran fine for a couple of hours of Memtest86 torture. And this user was experiencing extended waits AFTER the BIOS screen. Again, I'm having to wait about 8-10 seconds for the PC to POST the graphics card, let alone the BIOS!
So, any suggestions?
E6600 Core 2 Duo CPU + Zalman CNPS 9500-AT cooler
2x512MB Corsair TwinX XMS PC3200 DDR memory modules
Corsair HX520W power supply
2 Western Digital hard disk drives (WD800JB + WD3200JB)
2 Plextor Optical drives (16x10x40A + PX-760A)
Terratec Phase 22 PCI audio interface
Unibrain Fireblue Firewire PCI interface + Hercules 16/12FW firewire audio interface
Windows XP Home OEM.
The first board I bought also would, on some occasions, not POST and just shut down by itself! I was originally using an Akasa Paxpower 400W PSU, and assumed it wasn't enough. So the Corsair one went in... with the same results! So that prompted me to try a second board (I'll RMA the other one at some point, because it's clearly faulty), but whilst I don't seem to get the sudden shutting down, it still takes damned ages to POST.
Another post on this forum suggested trying a different RAM arrangement, however mine are a matched pair and ran fine for a couple of hours of Memtest86 torture. And this user was experiencing extended waits AFTER the BIOS screen. Again, I'm having to wait about 8-10 seconds for the PC to POST the graphics card, let alone the BIOS!
So, any suggestions?
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