Setting up my 8IRXP, a couple of questions

[jpetermann]

I've edited this to bring out a few difficulties I am having. So here we go!

1. When I boot up, everything powers up, and then it acts like it is not going to boot. THe the drive lights come on again, and BOOM! It boots. --------------FIXED! cleared the cmos and now it works!

2. Actually, it does not boot unless I skip the memory test. It did not do that the first couple boots. It will get to 300 or 400 something (I have 512 mg ocz ddr 2700 - one stick) If I skip the mem test, it boots. I have run memtest 86 on it and it did NOT detect any errors. ------------ NOT FIXED! My last remaining problem!

3. Does thiis thing normally have a long pause between restarts? I thought something was wrong and I hit the reset again, which brought up the old (I flashed to f6 already). Just seems odd, but maybe all pentiumn boards are like this. This is my first pentium system. I was just curious. - --------------------FIXED! This was also fixed with the clearing of the cmos

I thought maybe I had a bad flash or something. But the thing runs real sweet when it boots. Anyone help me with this stuff.



Also, my temp in the bios is 40-41 is that good? Normal? Whatever...?


Thanks for your assistance.

PJ


Another Update:

It is not a ram problem. I replaced the ram with 2 diff stick of crucial same problem with halt during ram test at bootup. I am going to reflash bios now...

 

[mikeg]

Ya I also get that pause in the bootup. I think it has something to do with the dual bios of this mobo
Just what I think
Mike

 

[street]

yes it is a bit long pretty sure its due to the checking of raid and all drives for errors and such

 

[CoDerEd]

yeah, different mobo has different behavior on the boot-up so
i guess if it's not that "LONG" it's normal.

2. Actually, it does not boot unless I skip the memory test. It did not do that the first couple boots. It will get to 300 or 400 something (I have 512 mg ocz ddr 2700 - one stick) If I skip the mem test, it boots. I have run memtest 86 on it and it did NOT detect any errors. ------------ NOT FIXED! My last remaining problem!

BUT this is might be some problems, i had this problem with my pentium pro setup
4 years ago, good thing the bios has a choice to skip memory testing
however it's not having problem in stability once we pass to the windows.
if i didn't skip it and it only runned half or 2/3 like what happened to you, then the
windows will crash eventually. I'm not sure but eventhough memetest86 didn't find any
problem i thing something wrong happened in you memory system.

 

[jpetermann]

I have another board on the way. The tech at Gigabyte made it sound like this was a known issue with some boards. Anything over 256 mb of ram caused the system to freeze. Oh well, we will see when I get my new board next week!