Learjet Capt
Junior Member
Greetings All,
Just put together a new system and having an issue.
First the system:
Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe w/AMD 64 Athlon X2 4800+ (Bios 1102)
2x1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1066
evga's "e-GeForce 9600 GT SuperClocked Ed.
1 SATA HD
1 IDE D.L. DVD Burner
450W AcePower PSU
Windows XP Home 32Bit
After putting her all together, I fired it up with a custom made WinXP CD in which I slipstreamed SP2 into so as to properly recognize the large hard drive and it's partitions.
As always, I keep the OS on the first partition and all my other files, media, program files on other partitions so I instructed it to install WinXP on the the first partition (C) and told it to do a 'quick' NTFS format.
Install went fine, loaded the mobo CD first for the drivers, then the video card CD and afterwards did windows updates.
Problem is, right from the get go, on reboot/startup, the post is fine, but as soon as it reaches the winXP logo/loading screen, there is a long, idle pause (ie no IDE/HD activity) as if it is searching for something, before it finally kicks in with the HD and starts loading XP. This phenomenon also occurs at shutdown as well at the "shutdown/logoff" screen.
Here is what I've tried:
*Updated various drivers
*Played with certain settings in Bios
*unchecked nearly all 'startup' strings in msconfig
*unplugged nearly ALL devices (DVD burner, all USB components, etc)
*updated to Service Pack 3
*ran a couple of registry cleaners/fixers
I have searched all over the internet for various help, and all I can come up with is that it seems that there is some conflict, or it is searching for something before windows loads and when it shuts down.
I read a bit about this "BootVis" and gave it a shot. Although I am not that familiar with the program interface, it might appear that the hang up has to do with the loading of "SCSIPORT.SYS" if I am reading the program graphs correctly. Keep in mind, this is an uneducated guess.
Can anyone offer any advice for this situation? Will a simple reinstall and start fresh fix this?
This system had replaced an Asus M2N-E mobo with the same processor (also brand new) with all the same hardware as mentioned above and I DID NOT have this issue. The reason I took the mobo back and upped it to the M3A32-MVP is I wanted more overclocking ability and better compatibility with ram (as the M2N-E failed in this dept. miserably)
Thanks for taking the time to read.
Regards
Just put together a new system and having an issue.
First the system:
Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe w/AMD 64 Athlon X2 4800+ (Bios 1102)
2x1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-1066
evga's "e-GeForce 9600 GT SuperClocked Ed.
1 SATA HD
1 IDE D.L. DVD Burner
450W AcePower PSU
Windows XP Home 32Bit
After putting her all together, I fired it up with a custom made WinXP CD in which I slipstreamed SP2 into so as to properly recognize the large hard drive and it's partitions.
As always, I keep the OS on the first partition and all my other files, media, program files on other partitions so I instructed it to install WinXP on the the first partition (C) and told it to do a 'quick' NTFS format.
Install went fine, loaded the mobo CD first for the drivers, then the video card CD and afterwards did windows updates.
Problem is, right from the get go, on reboot/startup, the post is fine, but as soon as it reaches the winXP logo/loading screen, there is a long, idle pause (ie no IDE/HD activity) as if it is searching for something, before it finally kicks in with the HD and starts loading XP. This phenomenon also occurs at shutdown as well at the "shutdown/logoff" screen.
Here is what I've tried:
*Updated various drivers
*Played with certain settings in Bios
*unchecked nearly all 'startup' strings in msconfig
*unplugged nearly ALL devices (DVD burner, all USB components, etc)
*updated to Service Pack 3
*ran a couple of registry cleaners/fixers
I have searched all over the internet for various help, and all I can come up with is that it seems that there is some conflict, or it is searching for something before windows loads and when it shuts down.
I read a bit about this "BootVis" and gave it a shot. Although I am not that familiar with the program interface, it might appear that the hang up has to do with the loading of "SCSIPORT.SYS" if I am reading the program graphs correctly. Keep in mind, this is an uneducated guess.
Can anyone offer any advice for this situation? Will a simple reinstall and start fresh fix this?
This system had replaced an Asus M2N-E mobo with the same processor (also brand new) with all the same hardware as mentioned above and I DID NOT have this issue. The reason I took the mobo back and upped it to the M3A32-MVP is I wanted more overclocking ability and better compatibility with ram (as the M2N-E failed in this dept. miserably)
Thanks for taking the time to read.
Regards
