Question Stuck on "Updating ESCD"

[cncc]

I'm trying to start an old computer and it gets stuck on "Updating ESCD". At first I searched for answers on the internet and decided to switch the HDD. I bought an IDE>USB adapter and cloned the old disc, so it did work. Perhaps it wasn't anything wrong with the HDD then.
Anyway I put in a cheap MSATA SSD into a MSATA>IDE adapter with the clone image transferred onto it. It recognizes the new SSD.
It still gets stuck on the same message. What could be the problem?

Thanks.

 

[pcgeek11]

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[VirtualLarry]

Hard to say. Do you have a PCI POST card with a numeric readout? That would tell you for sure.

If it's actually the ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data, aka PnP data), then go into BIOS using the hotkey (if you can), and select "Reset ESCD" and reboot BIOS.

Also, check that the CMOS battery is at 3V. Any lower, and replace it. Or just replace it, if the system/mobo has been sitting unplugged and unpowered for a number of years.

Lastly, it may be updating ESCD appropriately, but then the next step is peripheral device initialization and booting.

If you have any CD/DVD discs in a drive, remove them, floppy disks, remove them, USB external storage devices (including Wifi adapters with onboard driver storage) remove them.

 

[cncc]

Hard to say. Do you have a PCI POST card with a numeric readout? That would tell you for sure.

If it's actually the ESCD (Extended System Configuration Data, aka PnP data), then go into BIOS using the hotkey (if you can), and select "Reset ESCD" and reboot BIOS.

Also, check that the CMOS battery is at 3V. Any lower, and replace it. Or just replace it, if the system/mobo has been sitting unplugged and unpowered for a number of years.

Lastly, it may be updating ESCD appropriately, but then the next step is peripheral device initialization and booting.

If you have any CD/DVD discs in a drive, remove them, floppy disks, remove them, USB external storage devices (including Wifi adapters with onboard driver storage) remove them.

I don't have one of those cards unfortunately.

Sorry I forgot to mention what I have done so far. I did also find in an old post on another forum about resetting cofiguration data. So I enabled "Reset Configuration Data" under PNP/PCI Configuration.

I did replace the battery as well.

No CD/DVD drive connected, the only usb peripherals connected are the mouse and keyboard.

 

[cncc]

Oh that was simple, I removed both keyboard and mouse and then it boots into Windows.
Hmm strange, what could cause something like that?

 

[VirtualLarry]

See if there is a setting in BIOS for "PnP Initialization", change that from "BIOS" to "OS" or "Windows".
(I may not have those terms quite right.)

But the idea is to tell the BIOS to let Windows handle the ESCD and PnP init.

It sounds like your BIOS is "choking" on initializing modern USB "multi-function device" -style keyboards.

 

[cncc]

See if there is a setting in BIOS for "PnP Initialization", change that from "BIOS" to "OS" or "Windows".
(I may not have those terms quite right.)

But the idea is to tell the BIOS to let Windows handle the ESCD and PnP init.

It sounds like your BIOS is "choking" on initializing modern USB "multi-function device" -style keyboards.

That was set to be handled by the OS by default.