Man of Honour
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- 17 Feb 2003
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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.
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.
