Asus P4T sluggish in BIOS

[dianus]

Hi there everyone

I built a real nice pc for a friend, but I am experiencing a lot of
problems. The PC was sluggish from the start, even when trying to change
values in the BIOS, it is slow to respond. I have spent the whole afternoon
trying to install various flavors of win2k, but to no avail, it keeps
freezing up on me

It consists of the following:

No USB devices connected...
Asus P4T
1,7Ghz Intel
BIOS version 1004
350W Enermax PS

only cards connected:

Geforce 2 MX (Guillemot) AGP
Linksys NIC, PCI
Fdd
5400 rpm 20G Maxtor hdd
Samsung 5x dvd


and its all built into a Lian Li all Aluminum case (PC60)

My roommate built an almost identical system a couple of weeks ago, which
runs like a dream. All the bios settings are the same in the two pc's.

All suggestions would be greatly appreciated..

thanks in anticipation

diaan

 

[Shagga]

Can you get a different stick of RDRAM from someone else to try? Make sure the NIC is not sharing an IRQ with the Video Card. Usually the AGP Port shares with PCI 1.

 

[dianus]

Hi there..

The system features two sticks of PC800 ram for a total of 512MB. The NIC is in the last PCI slot, as far from the AGP card as I could move it. I even tried it without cd and hdd, but still a slow BIOS.

Could the motherboard be bad? Any other possibilities?

thanks..

diaan

 

[NOS440]

I would talk the other guy into bringing his PC over and start swapping out his parts in the one you built until the problem disapeers and you will have it nailed.


What is the CPU temp in the bios. Also what brand is the Memory and did you stagger the slots that the memory goes in they are not side by side. Also did you install the fake rims in the unused slots.

 

[killmeplease]

Just an idea............

I had a sys that was really sluggish in the BIOS. It turned out to be a bad mouse port!

If I unplugged the mouse, no problem. Replaced it with a USB mouse and it's fine.

I can't explain it, it just was.

One more thing......The set-up would freeze after I moved the mouse. I had to install via arrows and tab. No problem after the USB mouse replacement.

Good luck.

 

[dianus]

Hi there...

Samsung memory, staggered as in the manual. Swapped the memory with the roommates', but still no luck.

I have built quite a few pc's before, but have never seen anything like this..

 

[NOS440]

will the roommate let you swap out the motherboard that would rule the MB out.

 

[dianus]

OK

Tried a USB mouse, no luck. MB temp is 28 C when I start it. And the roommate just laughed at me when I suggested swapping MB's.

??

 

[NOS440]

Well he's not very cooperative. What is the CPU temp that's what I'm more interested in.

 

[dianus]

CPU temp: 37 C when started...

I can forgive the roomate, his case is not the easiest to work with..

 

[killmeplease]

Start yankin' cards and drives. I'd start with the NIC.

 

[dianus]

Hi there

No cards left except for the AGP Guillemot Geforce2MX.

No Hdd, No CD... just P4t, Fdd, 512Mb memory, keyboard and mouse.

And still a crawling BIOS.

 

[killmeplease]

IMO.......You are as bare as you should have to get. Motherboard is DOA

 

[dianus]

Thanks a lot guys..

It's going back on Monday!

 

[Dug]

A bad keyboard, mouse, or floppy drive can cause the problem you are describing.

Which I see you have all three still attached.

 

[spazntwich1]

Didn't fkloster post something about this earlier?

You could try fireing a PM over to him/her (which is it? and seeing what they did to fix the problem.

 

[Jumpem]

Fkloster had some sort of USB problem I think.