D975XBX2 Problems. They came on all of sudden.

[Robert Barnett]

Hello,

I have a D975XBX2 system up and running fine with a Core2 Duo processor and 2GB or AM with Windows Vista. A couple of days ago I updated the bios to 2692 and slowly everything has went to hell in a hand basket.

First Windows Vista (32-bit) standard to slow down and hang. The computer boots very slow. I takes a good couple of seconds for the Intel title screen with F2 Message to appear. Then the RAID controller scan takes almost 2 minutes to do its thing (I am not using a raid) and it was just a second or two before. When I go in to the bios setup screen it redraws very slowly and I have even had the bios setup screen to freeze on me requiring a reboot.

I have just updated the bios to 2770 and still no go. Except now I can't seem to boot from my hard drive. I get a NTLDR is Missing Message.

Any ideas? I am thinking about down-dating to the bios before 2692 which I think is the last bios that worked for me.

Also, I just added a second ATI Radeon card to my system so I can connect 3 monitors. I am not using crossfire. I tried removing the second card and that did not help.

Is this MB junk or am I just missing something.

Robert

[aleph6]

Have you tried booting from CD? Every time I've encountered the missing ntldr message, it's been the disk itself. I suggest this as a bootable cd if you don't already have a favorite: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/.

[Robert Barnett]

Yah, I tried doing the bios from a CD, restoration with floppy and jumper off, etc. Finally I just went to bed and called Intel this morning. They had me remove the battery and the three power plugs and then wait 30 minutes then put the battery back and plug-in the three power connections. It booted up perfectly with the latest firmware. So far no problems. The hard reset seems to work and it is a trick I will remember should anything like this happen again in the future.

Robert