Insanely Slow 975XBX2 Boot Times (Bios Booting)
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Insanely Slow 975XBX2 Boot Times (Bios Booting)
Ok so i give up, this board is just nuts, heres the problem in a nutshell.
I have the XBX2 board, whenever i power it on, it shows a small dash top left corner of my screen, (This Dash _ ) it does not blink, just stays there for 50 seconds (Timed it) after that is done it flashes the "Press F2 to enter setup" window for like a split second and on it goes to the Marvel Sata raid controller here it takes roughly 9 seconds to go trough (acceptable), on goes to the intel matrix raid boot screen, here it takes 35 seconds (WTH??) after this and another 15 second wait it then goes on to decide that it should go ahead and boot now.
I have just one question about this board... Is this insanely 3 minute long fiasco the standard boot up time for this board?
Before you say, No i dont have network boot enabled, only card in the system is the BFG8800GTX video card and thats it, ive tried it with another card (7600GT) and still get the exact same problem so its not the card.
Anyone have any ideas what is causing this? im going nuts here...
On another note, ive turned off all USB boot stuff and still if i leave my USB floppy drive plugged in the motherboard will not boot it just passes the matrix boot screen and just hangs there, i get a blinking light and if i press the keyb enough i get the typical keyb buffer overflow error beeps.
I hope someone has come across this problem already.
Thanks
I have the XBX2 board, whenever i power it on, it shows a small dash top left corner of my screen, (This Dash _ ) it does not blink, just stays there for 50 seconds (Timed it) after that is done it flashes the "Press F2 to enter setup" window for like a split second and on it goes to the Marvel Sata raid controller here it takes roughly 9 seconds to go trough (acceptable), on goes to the intel matrix raid boot screen, here it takes 35 seconds (WTH??) after this and another 15 second wait it then goes on to decide that it should go ahead and boot now.
I have just one question about this board... Is this insanely 3 minute long fiasco the standard boot up time for this board?
Before you say, No i dont have network boot enabled, only card in the system is the BFG8800GTX video card and thats it, ive tried it with another card (7600GT) and still get the exact same problem so its not the card.
Anyone have any ideas what is causing this? im going nuts here...
On another note, ive turned off all USB boot stuff and still if i leave my USB floppy drive plugged in the motherboard will not boot it just passes the matrix boot screen and just hangs there, i get a blinking light and if i press the keyb enough i get the typical keyb buffer overflow error beeps.
I hope someone has come across this problem already.
Thanks
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What are your system specs,
We have:
XBX2 (box or bulk?)
BFG 8800GTX (lucky dawg)
What memory?
What CPU?
What Optical drive (mainly is it/them SATA or EIDE for the optical?)?
What hard drive(s) and are you booting from a RAID set?
What controller are the or all of the drives connected to?
This info would be helpful, I'll reboot now and get a rough boot time but I know mines not that bad (at least till Windows actually starts )
We have:
XBX2 (box or bulk?)
BFG 8800GTX (lucky dawg)
What memory?
What CPU?
What Optical drive (mainly is it/them SATA or EIDE for the optical?)?
What hard drive(s) and are you booting from a RAID set?
What controller are the or all of the drives connected to?
This info would be helpful, I'll reboot now and get a rough boot time but I know mines not that bad (at least till Windows actually starts )
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XBX2 (box or bulk?) Bulk (only ones i could find)DaddyRabbit wrote:What are your system specs,
We have:
XBX2 (box or bulk?)
BFG 8800GTX (lucky dawg)
What memory?
What CPU?
What Optical drive (mainly is it/them SATA or EIDE for the optical?)?
What hard drive(s) and are you booting from a RAID set?
What controller are the or all of the drives connected to?
This info would be helpful, I'll reboot now and get a rough boot time but I know mines not that bad (at least till Windows actually starts )
BFG 8800GTX (lucky dawg) (Watercooled too )
What memory? 4gb Kingston HyperX DDR2 800
What CPU? T6600 2.4
What Optical drive (mainly is it/them SATA or EIDE for the optical?)? Sata
What hard drive(s) and are you booting from a RAID set? sata
What controller are the or all of the drives connected to? sata
4 500gb drives on the blue plugs, 2 80gb drives on the black plugs, and 1 CD on the black as well.
Still working on the why it wont boot lol now it just says theres no boot devices...
well thats odd if i disable the IDE interface my SATA CD refuses to be a boot device.....
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And after I rebooted and did the "one, one thousand thing!
Well not to waste it...
From cold boot to the dash ~ 8 sec
Dash on for ~ 14 sec
Splash screen for ~ 1 1/2 sec
XP - well I quit counting...
Glad you got it fixed, my XBX2 is quickly winning my favor
Well not to waste it...
From cold boot to the dash ~ 8 sec
Dash on for ~ 14 sec
Splash screen for ~ 1 1/2 sec
XP - well I quit counting...
Glad you got it fixed, my XBX2 is quickly winning my favor
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WD Caviar Black 1TB (Data)
CM UCP RS700-AAAAA3 700W 80+ Silver PSU
CM Storm Sniper
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Win 7 Pro 64bit
Core i7 2600k
Corsair H100 Liquid Cooler
8gig (2x4) G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1600
Powercolor HD5870 PCS+
OCZ Agility 2 240G SSD (boot, programs, games)
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Great... it was the IDE western digital drive... it was set to master but with slave and there was no slave... god i hate WDs Master/Slave pinout systems, its the only one that does that to a system when theres no slave present...
Well that took care of that...
and it seems it also fixed the non booting issue...
Well that took care of that...
and it seems it also fixed the non booting issue...
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The ICH7R is actually a in the chipset, the Marvel is a third party controller. The reason for using it is to give user more SATA ports. The ICH7R can only support 4 ports natively so they tack on the Marvell to add on. I personally (with no real knowledge or data to back it up ) would defer to the ICH7R using the Marvel for a secondary MASS storage like:
"4 500gb drives on the blue plugs,..." Jeez! I remember when I spent $499 USD on a 40 MEGABYTE Miniscribe MFM drive (OK showing my age...)
Also AFAIK the only difference between the bulk (BLK975XBX2) and the boxed version is a 1yr vs. 3 yr warranty but there is another version that is substantially different in features, that's why I asked.
Glad it's working well now, I'm loving my XBX2, E6600, and 8800GTS more every day...
"4 500gb drives on the blue plugs,..." Jeez! I remember when I spent $499 USD on a 40 MEGABYTE Miniscribe MFM drive (OK showing my age...)
Also AFAIK the only difference between the bulk (BLK975XBX2) and the boxed version is a 1yr vs. 3 yr warranty but there is another version that is substantially different in features, that's why I asked.
Glad it's working well now, I'm loving my XBX2, E6600, and 8800GTS more every day...
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Powercolor HD5870 PCS+
OCZ Agility 2 240G SSD (boot, programs, games)
WD Caviar Black 1TB (Data)
CM UCP RS700-AAAAA3 700W 80+ Silver PSU
CM Storm Sniper
Gateway FHD2400
Win 7 Pro 64bit
Core i7 2600k
Corsair H100 Liquid Cooler
8gig (2x4) G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1600
Powercolor HD5870 PCS+
OCZ Agility 2 240G SSD (boot, programs, games)
WD Caviar Black 1TB (Data)
CM UCP RS700-AAAAA3 700W 80+ Silver PSU
CM Storm Sniper
Gateway FHD2400
Win 7 Pro 64bit