Epox 8RDA hangs on reboots

[videobruce]

This has been happening since I got the board a week ago. I only have Win 2k w/sp3, the nForce2 Unified Driver V2.03 and the drivers for the hardware installed. No programs.
Every time I reboot it hangs untill I press a keyboard key. But then I loose the keyboard and mouse. If I do a reboot all is fine, but only on the 2nd reboot. It's fine on cold boots.
No overclocking, no problems in device manager. Ran MemTest86 V3 twice, showed ok.
I moved 2nd memory stick from slot 2 to slot 1 and no change.
CPU temp is under 107F.

Win 2k w/sp3 (no other software)
Asus V7100DC V31.40 w/ Direct X8.1
Creative SB Live value (MS drivers only)
Linksys LNE100TX NIC
2 256MB PC2700 Crucial
T-Bred 2100b
Antec True power 330W

 

[RemyCanad]

I don't know what the cause of this is from but I had to same problem with an WinXP machine. I would try to restart and it would just hang. Is you tried to do anything such as a Ctl-Alt-Del it would lockup totaly. Then to when I tried to turn it back on it too two restarts to get it to boot.

Long story short I searched and searched and found nothing. This was a friends machine and he had installed Windows XP so I decided I would just reinstall and try from scratch. Once I reinstalled everything was ok. It must of been a service not closing or something but I could never find it.

 

[videobruce]

I did a fresh install of 2k, took everything out but the video card and the 2 HDD's and it still does it even with the fail safe default setting in the bios!

Actually it takes two keyboard presses to continue loading.

 

[mechBgon]

If you haven't updated the BIOS to the Jan. 29 version, I suggest trying that. Download it from epox.com, unzip, put the .BIN file on a healthy floppy diskette, reboot with diskette in drive and press Alt + F2 at the POST screen.

 

[RemyCanad]

So this has been going on ever since you installed the board. And when you installed the board you did a fresh install...


Here are some things I found on their site that might be of intrest.

Driver install order
PC Health causes machine to freez up.

 

[videobruce]

So this has been going on ever since you installed the board. And when you installed the board you did a fresh install...

Yes to both!

I tried 3 bios's. The orginal, the 1/29/03 and now the 1/17/03
Fresh install twice.
Removed everything except the HDD's and video card.
Voltages ok except 12v is showing 11.55V
Removed 1 stick of RAM, changed slots, tested RAM 3 times with Mem Test86 V3.
Reseated all cables.

The only thing I haven't done that would make sense is change the new round IDE cable which I will try now.