Odd booting problem?

Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

Admiral Huddy

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This is strange..

I built my new system about a week ago now and every thing runs fine except from the occasional cold boot problem.

The system seems to wait for about 2 minutes whilst it checks USB devices. It seems to hang whilst it searches for devices.. The last POST message just says “Device #1” and does nothing. After a while it appears to give up and then continues but my profile in Vista shows as “locked”.

Hitting the reset button sorts it out and windows boots as normal. This is an intermittent problem and doesn’t occur all the time.

I’ve checked the RAM (memtest) and the system is stable (Orthas) on default settings. I’m not overclocking and don’t intend to until I know what the problem is. I can’t see it being hardware problem because everything is fine once in windows. It’s bound to be something silly I’ve missed in the BIOS?

My only thought that there is a setting in the BIOS “PnP OS enabled/disabled”. By default this disabled but I enabled just after the build. Could this be the problem?

Any ideas?



System:
Q6600(GO), Asus P5KC, 4GB Geil PC2-6400, Corsair 620w, Artic Freezer 7, 500GB Samsung Spinpoint HDD, 250GB Samsung Spinpoint HDD, Vista-64 Ultimate Edition.
 
Try disabling the plug & play option, make sure boot order is set to CD=>HDD or HDD first, and disable 'boot from other devices' and any network boot option. Also, unplug any ipods/usb sticks etc while booting incase they are making the system hang.
 
I set the "PnP" option to Yes because I was under the impression this was needed for windows? I've not seen this option before afaik and I don't really know it's purpose.

I'll try disabling later as you suggest but I'm wondering how other pnp devices are going to work ??
 
Providing your motherboard has an ACPI BIOS (all current motherboards usually do), and you are using an ACPI-compliant operating system (i.e. Windows 98 and above), then the PNP OS Installed feature is no longer relevant. This is because the operating system will use the ACPI BIOS interface to configure all devices as well as retrieve system information.
 
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