BIOSes 1.7 and 1.8 result in bad booting. I see some users have the newer BIOSes and it works fine for them. Why not me? Here's how it went.
I thought I'd try MSI's Windows BIOS update program, just to see, and whammo it found a new BIOS, flashed it and verified it. The computer rebooted fine and I shut the power off just to check absolute cold booting, which is occasionally a problem for this mobo, but not as long as I leave it plugged in. Everthing was fine.
Next day:
After shutting the power off by the front button or shutting down Windows, and waiting a minute, the computer will begin to boot for about ten seconds when it's turned on again. The HD whines spinning up, the CPU fan spins up, although nothing is up on the screen yet. Then the HD powers down, the CPU fan spins down. Then the power LED goes into a slo-mo blinking state, about three seconds on and 3 seconds off, a mode I personally have never seen. Pushing the power button again, or the reset, or the keyboard or mouse does absolutely nothing. The LED just keep blinking. Shutting off the PS with the rear switch will only start the situation all over.
Yes, you can get a good boot by clearing the CMOS. The first try hangs, but that seems to be normal for this mobo. On the second power-up, the computer boots OK. Then, after it automatically sets BIOS defaults, or you do it yourself in the BIOS, it goes back to the bad boot situation with the first power off.
It does this when not overclocked, everything set to "safe."
It worked OK with BIOS 1.5. I reflashed 1.8 twice, once from a boot floppy. Then I tried 1.7. Eventually I went back to 1.5, and it works normally again, thankfully. What could it possibly be?
Trying to get a BIOS reset like some mobos will do, I accidently discovered that pressing and holding the keyboard DEL key while pushing the power button sometimes got a normal boot. But it is very irregular. Sometimes it fails five times in a row. You have to turn it off by the rear power switch and start over. But once started I was able to see that all the settings are unchanged. The computer is not losing the settings. And setting failsafe defaults does not help anything.
As a cockeyed guess, I set the BIOS to "wake" the computer with the keyboard. After that when I hold a key while pushing the power button, the computer will suddenly boot up again just as the HD starts powering down, as if it were coming out of a sleep state. Weird. If works 9 times out 10. If it goes to the blinking mode, nothing works. It would seem, for some crazy reason, the computer is automatically going into some power-down mode on its own after ten seconds on. But when putting the computer in suspend (STR) or standby (POS) mode there is no blinking LED! This is something else, some new mode. What the heck is it?
Anybody ever seen anything like this? I've run out of logic. It can't be the mobo because BIOS 1.5 works OK. It can't be BIOS 1.8 because it does work for other people. Resetting the CMOS only fixes it until one power down. It is not OCed. It is not losing the settings.
I thought I'd try MSI's Windows BIOS update program, just to see, and whammo it found a new BIOS, flashed it and verified it. The computer rebooted fine and I shut the power off just to check absolute cold booting, which is occasionally a problem for this mobo, but not as long as I leave it plugged in. Everthing was fine.
Next day:
After shutting the power off by the front button or shutting down Windows, and waiting a minute, the computer will begin to boot for about ten seconds when it's turned on again. The HD whines spinning up, the CPU fan spins up, although nothing is up on the screen yet. Then the HD powers down, the CPU fan spins down. Then the power LED goes into a slo-mo blinking state, about three seconds on and 3 seconds off, a mode I personally have never seen. Pushing the power button again, or the reset, or the keyboard or mouse does absolutely nothing. The LED just keep blinking. Shutting off the PS with the rear switch will only start the situation all over.
Yes, you can get a good boot by clearing the CMOS. The first try hangs, but that seems to be normal for this mobo. On the second power-up, the computer boots OK. Then, after it automatically sets BIOS defaults, or you do it yourself in the BIOS, it goes back to the bad boot situation with the first power off.
It does this when not overclocked, everything set to "safe."
It worked OK with BIOS 1.5. I reflashed 1.8 twice, once from a boot floppy. Then I tried 1.7. Eventually I went back to 1.5, and it works normally again, thankfully. What could it possibly be?
Trying to get a BIOS reset like some mobos will do, I accidently discovered that pressing and holding the keyboard DEL key while pushing the power button sometimes got a normal boot. But it is very irregular. Sometimes it fails five times in a row. You have to turn it off by the rear power switch and start over. But once started I was able to see that all the settings are unchanged. The computer is not losing the settings. And setting failsafe defaults does not help anything.
As a cockeyed guess, I set the BIOS to "wake" the computer with the keyboard. After that when I hold a key while pushing the power button, the computer will suddenly boot up again just as the HD starts powering down, as if it were coming out of a sleep state. Weird. If works 9 times out 10. If it goes to the blinking mode, nothing works. It would seem, for some crazy reason, the computer is automatically going into some power-down mode on its own after ten seconds on. But when putting the computer in suspend (STR) or standby (POS) mode there is no blinking LED! This is something else, some new mode. What the heck is it?
Anybody ever seen anything like this? I've run out of logic. It can't be the mobo because BIOS 1.5 works OK. It can't be BIOS 1.8 because it does work for other people. Resetting the CMOS only fixes it until one power down. It is not OCed. It is not losing the settings.
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