Asus A7V266-E Issue

[KeninMI]

I just slapped together a new system inserted the Win XP Pro CD, XP formatted the blank Maxtor 60GB HD, then installed Win XP.
At this point everything was good and had good reboots. The issue started when I installed the Via 4-in-1 drivers supplied with the motherboard.

Now when the system boots I get just post the BIOS listing screen and the screen goes blank for approx. 15-18 seconds then the Win XP splash screen shows up and the rest of the boot is fine into the desktop. A quick email to ASUS tech support and they provied a link to Via'ss latest 4-in-1 driver which did nothing to resolve the issue.

Anyone with similar experiences or insight on how to fix the lag on boot up please let me know.

My system contains:

ASUS A&V266-E
AMD XP 1.8+
3 - 256MB Crucial DDR
Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum
Visiontek TI-200 64MB
Linksys fast ethernet 10/100 PCI NIC card
Windows XP Pro

Thanks in advance !
Ken

 

[KGB]

XP already comes with 4-in1's (ver 4.32 I believe) and loads them during the installation.
Did you remove them before installing the ones from the CD?

 

[UsandThem]

Make sure you change PCI/AGP to AGP/PCI in your BIOS.

I can't remember which section it is in. Just keep hitting [delete] when you restart your computer, and it should bring up your BIOS where you can see them.

 

[KeninMI]

KGBMAN & ANTIABIT thanks for the tips I am off to try the bios idea now. I wasn't aware that XP contained the 4in1 drivers already - installing the ASUS 4-in-1 drivers probably overlayed the XP one.

Thanks again I will report on my findings

EDIT:

Ok I found the PCI to AGP setting change in the bios under PCI configuration - Primary VGA BIOS. I made the change and saved it but it didn't
correct the issue.

I wonder if there is a way to uninstall the 4-in-1 drivers I installed from the ASUS provided disk.

Thanks again

Ken

 

[AnthraX101]

Possibly try updating the BIOS?

Armani

 

[AA0]

most a7v266e boards are shipped with the 2nd bios, which is also the latest.

Do you get the bios showing it looking for the RAID? It takes a little while, and if its not displaying (since you said it goes straight from the bios screen) then thats whats happening.

 

[KeninMI]

<< most a7v266e boards are shipped with the 2nd bios, which is also the latest. Do you get the bios showing it looking for the RAID? It takes a little while, and if its not displaying (since you said it goes straight from the bios screen) then thats whats happening. >>



Yes I get the Ultra100 scan looking for raid, the screen goes blank just after that and before the WIndows XP splash screen. The bios is at the
latest level.

 

[AA0]

are you overclocked at all? I notice when I o/c, it takes longer to boot, but I get better performance other places, this is with win98 though.

 

[KeninMI]

<< are you overclocked at all? I notice when I o/c, it takes longer to boot, but I get better performance other places, this is with win98 though. >>



No not OC'ed at all stock everything, I think what I am going to do is reformat and reinstall XP since it comes with 4-in-1 drivers then update using the drivers from VIA's website and not use the 4-in-1 drivers that came with the motherboard.