I have a new Asus A7N8X Deluxe v 2.0 motherboard set up with a 120GB SATA serial drive as the boot drive, 40GB IDE drive as a 2nd drive on IDE channel 1, a DVD drive and CD-RW drive on IDE channel 2.
Set up with the serial drive as the boot drive, I cannot do a warm reboot on the system ever. Depending on which Bios I use I either hang at detecting the serial drive, or hang a bit below that at Verifying DMI Pool Data. I must shut down the system always and turn it back on and then it will boot up perfectly. The other oddity is that when I access drives on my 2nd computer which is networked (through a LinkSys 4 port router), it's extremely slow and I'll get the little window flag waving and the flashlight animation while waiting to detect some larger directories. Other than these 2 strange problems the system is extremely stable and can run forever without needing a reboot (thank god).
I have tried quite a few different Bios versions and Sata driver versions for the motherboard, combinations of them all every which way possible, and still cannot do a warm reboot on the system if the SATA drive is the boot drive. I have disconnected the 2nd HD and the DVD and CD-RW drives and the same thing happens, it hangs at a reboot and will not load.
When I use the 40GB IDE drive as the boot drive though, I can reboot and have almost instant access of even the largest directories on the networked computer.
I have contacted Asus, they've had me do things like install newest Bios version (which of course was one I had tried), flip the battery to clear the CMOS, nothing is making any difference.
At this point if I thought I could return the HD for a regular IDE drive, I would do it to be rid of this problem.
Has anyone run into anything like this and know what is wrong? Is it more likely to be the serial drive at fault or the motherboard? I am stumped and cannot figure this one out.
System is running WinXP, AMD 2500+ Barton, 1 GB Corsair 3200PCI dual channel memory, MSI ti4600 video card, system is running at default speeds, not overclocked.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, I am just driving myself crazy with this problem at this point and getting nowhere.
Set up with the serial drive as the boot drive, I cannot do a warm reboot on the system ever. Depending on which Bios I use I either hang at detecting the serial drive, or hang a bit below that at Verifying DMI Pool Data. I must shut down the system always and turn it back on and then it will boot up perfectly. The other oddity is that when I access drives on my 2nd computer which is networked (through a LinkSys 4 port router), it's extremely slow and I'll get the little window flag waving and the flashlight animation while waiting to detect some larger directories. Other than these 2 strange problems the system is extremely stable and can run forever without needing a reboot (thank god).
I have tried quite a few different Bios versions and Sata driver versions for the motherboard, combinations of them all every which way possible, and still cannot do a warm reboot on the system if the SATA drive is the boot drive. I have disconnected the 2nd HD and the DVD and CD-RW drives and the same thing happens, it hangs at a reboot and will not load.
When I use the 40GB IDE drive as the boot drive though, I can reboot and have almost instant access of even the largest directories on the networked computer.
I have contacted Asus, they've had me do things like install newest Bios version (which of course was one I had tried), flip the battery to clear the CMOS, nothing is making any difference.
At this point if I thought I could return the HD for a regular IDE drive, I would do it to be rid of this problem.
Has anyone run into anything like this and know what is wrong? Is it more likely to be the serial drive at fault or the motherboard? I am stumped and cannot figure this one out.
System is running WinXP, AMD 2500+ Barton, 1 GB Corsair 3200PCI dual channel memory, MSI ti4600 video card, system is running at default speeds, not overclocked.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, I am just driving myself crazy with this problem at this point and getting nowhere.
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