Problem with NF7, XP-M 2400. Bios takes FOREVER!

[Cawchy87]

A few problems

1. The bios screen (where it detects ide devices) Takes about a minute to load when it goes fast. When a hard drive is plugged in it takes WAY longer. It is unbearable.

2. I haven't had a chance to format a hard drive because half the time my motherboard doesn't recognize the processor.

And... when it does it recoginzes it as either 600mhz, 800mhz or 1133mhz (AMD 2400 xp-m).

3. When the bios detects my ram it detects it as only 266mhz even though it is ddr 400.

But... It detects it as ddr400 (not 400mhz, but ddr400) when the processor speed shows 600mhz.

4. It detects my ram as "running in dual channel" when athlon xp boards don't have dual channel capabilities...

I have tried...

Clearing the CMOS several times.

Setting bios to defaults and (not at the same time, but i did try that too) optimum settings.

3 hard drives

Various combos of optical/floppy drives and a lot of different cables.

The bios works fine on a friends comptuer with the same hard drive/optical drives.

Thanks for ANY input you can give to this.

Thanks
Paul

 

[Insane3D]

Are you running a WD HD by itself on it's own IDE channel? If so, try taking the master/slave jumper completely off.

 

[Elcs]

Does your WD HD boot? Try it as the only IDE Device on the board.

This happened to me recently and I havent found the solution. I fixed my HD to make it boot in another PC but if I connect ANY IDE device to my mobo, it just will not boot to even the Detecting screen. No IDE devices and it flies past the BIOS.

EDIT: AXP boards DO have Dual Channel Capability. The NF7-S definately does, believe me I own 2

 

[Sylvanas]

i just skimmed reading your post. but i had same problem, are your hdd's jumpered as master? thats what caused mine to take forever to boot. and set your fsb to what it should be by default. 133? 166?

 

[PumpActionWalrus]

And... when it does it recoginzes it as either 600mhz, 800mhz or 1133mhz (AMD 2400 xp-m).

3. When the bios detects my ram it detects it as only 266mhz even though it is ddr 400.

But... It detects it as ddr400 (not 400mhz, but ddr400) when the processor speed shows 600mhz.

Both of the above are because you have not manually gone in and set everything up, go in and set your processor to run 200*11@1.6vcore, set your memory to whatever its specs are for the timing and voltage at 2.7, set vdd to 1.6.

Try to boot without a hard drive or optical drive, if it works, it is something with the configuration of the drives, or the drives themselves.

4. It detects my ram as "running in dual channel" when athlon xp boards don't have dual channel capabilities...
NF7, Nforce 2, Dual channel, duh

 

[Cawchy87]

Well, i certainly feel stupid about the Dual Channel.

Pump - I did configure my to the correct settings, but it chooses its own for some reason.

Sylvanas - Yes, it was configured to master. I will try taking that off. And i will try again with the bios.

Elcs - I did try and nothing but the bios screen came up because there wasn't anything on the hard drive. I needed to re-format it so i needed the floppy plugged in to boot into dos

Insane3D - I will try that and since 2 people mentioned it, it might be the problem.