Did we come to a conclusion on fixing the k7s5a HDD boot hangup problem?

[gogeeta13]

Did we come to a conclusion on fixing the k7s5a HDD boot hangup problem?
I have a few older k7s5a's that are acting up. WHen they get to the HDD in the bootup process, it freezes up. I then have to finick with it, go into bios, re-detect hdds and stuff, and then it will finally work, after about a 2 minute wait time. Is there a fix for this yet? buz2b?

 

[Duvie]

I would like to know as well...I have one acting like that as well...I thought it was a cmos battery issue but it wouldn't forget any other settings...


If I turn off and leave off for awhile then try to restart it will fail to detect the HDD altogether...On all starts the ide detection takes like 1 minute plus, so needless to say this bootup reminds of much older computer of the past....

I have also had some other issues with the pci bus...I have one instance of it not detecting the cd-rw after awhile even though it may have burnt a cd just hours before...Have to restart...

I have also had some burns at lower then rated cd-rw speeds and had the justlink program tell me it encountered and avoided 1 to 2 possible buffer underrun issues...I have cd-rw on second channel so I am not sharing the same channel. Both are verified as dma enabled. latest Bios, newer revision board, and drivers off of disk....

I think the HDD and pci thing sounds like a bios issue though since it is an issue outside of the OS...

 

[gogeeta13]

should I try flashing it then?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I built 2 workstations for a client with the K7S5A last year and didn't even bother flashing the bios on either since the W2K FDD data corruption issue had already been addressed in the ver. on them and they run 8+hrs a day 6 days a week trouble free so perhaps an older bios ver. would resolve it.FYI I put 30gb 7200rpm Maxtors in both so if you guys are using big storage HDDs then this may not be relevant info.

 

[gogeeta13]

both of them have 40gig drives, I cant remember if its WD, MXTR or SGATE

I REALLY need a fix for this, please, anybody have any ideas

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: gogeeta13
both of them have 40gig drives, I cant remember if its WD, MXTR or SGATE

I REALLY need a fix for this, please, anybody have any ideas

replace the MB with something of higher quality

tried a different bios rev yet?

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: Adul

Originally posted by: gogeeta13
both of them have 40gig drives, I cant remember if its WD, MXTR or SGATE

I REALLY need a fix for this, please, anybody have any ideas

replace the MB with something of higher quality

tried a different bios rev yet?

Mine has similar problems also and I just bought mine a week ago.

 

[Peter]

Standard pitfall: WD drives. They have THREE different jumper positions, depending on whether they're Master, Slave, or Alone on the cable. Also, if you're using an 80-wire cable, watch that you got the drive positions right - Master drive on the black connector, slave (if any) on grey, mainboard on blue.

 

[Stoneface]

Have you checked the PSU?

I had a similar problem with a different MB. Replacing the PSU fixed the problem.

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: Stoneface
Have you checked the PSU?

I had a similar problem with a different MB. Replacing the PSU fixed the problem.

dunno tho, i'm using a 431 watt enermax already