Asus Mobo hiccups!!!

[blacksheep312]

My last machine that I built 4 years ago was an AMD 64bit 3200+ with a raptor and Win xp pro SP1. The XP loading screen would move the blue bar once and it was fully booted into windows.

Just built this new machine 2 days ago, and the with Win Xp Pro SP2 it takes like 12 lines across to boot up. Not to mention when playing music, (winamp-less ram usage) it hiccups will playing music when I put a cd in the DVD-rom or open webpage. Is there something in the mob bios settings i need to change? I would think this machine would outperform my old one. Its getting on my nevers and have no clue what it would be. Old machine never skipped a beat.

But I can play Crysis and new games with no problems. SO once its all booted up, everything works great, besided the hiccups music.


Any help would be great. I have not changes anything, all stock no overclocking yet! Here is all the parts inside.

VGA EVGA 512-P3-N802-AR 8800GT 512M
KB&MS LOGITECH|CORDLESS DSKTP S 510
DVD BURN SONY NEC|AD-7190S SATA %
MB ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP P35 775 RT
CPU INTEL|PDC E2160 1.8G 775 1M R
MEM 1Gx2|CRUCIA BL2KIT12864AA1065 R
HD 500G|WD 7K 16M SATA2 WD5000AAKS

 

[blacksheep312]

Since, I have disabled the on board Firewire, wifi, and changed the Boot Priority jsut to the HD with the OS. No Difference. 10 bars to boot. This just ain't right.

 

[Zap]

Hello, and welcome to the forums.

Check to see if the hard drive is still running in Ultra DMA mode (in Device Manager, check the interface that the drive is hooked up to).

 

[blacksheep312]

I checked, but the HD is connected to SATA running under IDE. But I could run it as AHCI which is new to me. The DVD-Burner is also SATA. THe board has 6 SATA connections, SO I possible could have put them on the wrong port. I believe HD is on port 1 and DVD port 2. So in device manager, I have disabled all IDE controllers, and left the 2 SATA that pop up inside IDE.

I just don't get it. Here is a pic.

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Unless the SATA uses the Primary IDE controller as well while in windows. I checked one that I could not disable and it was connected at Ultra DMA Mode 5

 

[blacksheep312]

Bump for help!

 

[Hawkster46]

We had this board and the same problem.
Use the black sata ports to boot , be aware it will try to boot off the red ones first. but the black ones booted faster. change boot order in bios also.
Also be careful when removing the connector on the cable from the board, our's came off.
this board became so problematic booting and blue screening, ( Ran great for 3 weeks). That we bought a diffrent board.
I will rma this one then sell it.
Good luck dude, many many people have problems with this board.
Vdrop on CPU
sata ports disappearing
bios resetting
blue screens
very picky with memory.
So if you start having problems RMA it, I wasted 2 weeks troubleshooting.
ASUS is not what they used to be.