slow boot up with 5850

[chris408]

HAD a go updating my bios with a usb stick,want in to my bios using ez flash 2 way but it didn't find my bios file on my usb stick I SELECT all the drives but still nothing.anything else CAN i try?

 

[flying grouse]

put the bios file directly onto root of usb drive, not in a folder

 

[Arcane]

I found 5850 Crossfire quite slow to boot, it'd take a while before the initial bios screen would appear and their fans would spin up loudly, it's been significantly quicker since changing to the nvidia cards so I would imagine it's just a quirk with them?

 

[chris408]

put the bios file directly onto root of usb drive, not in a folder

it not in a folder. I also change the name of the bios to p5n32-e.rom but still don't work

 

[chris408]

now i need help,i did the update and now i got nothing but a black screen saying no signal,i did everything what the asus web site told me to do and now i have to use my girlfriend laptop.is their anything i can do now or is my motherboard had it.

 

[redknight333]

does seem like you have killed it, like a horror story just waiting to happen from the very start.

 

[chris408]

nope every thing ok i just reset my cmos and everything fine

 

[redknight333]

thank god great to see it working now, but as it fixed your slow boot?

 

[Howitzer]

chris
i had exactly the same issue and still do
only 10.1' driver sets dont slow the boot and stutdown process for me, everything else is slow.
i even had a huge thread in the HDD section of the forum thinking it was my SSD, after 3 days of messing round, reinstalls and other stuff it discovered it was 10.2 drivers. installed 10.1 and was super fast boot and shutdown

try 10.1 drivers just to confirm and im sure you wil see the issue go

A little embarassing but I have to admit that I've never 'Downgraded' drivers before.
How do I fully remove the old Driver before D/Ling and installing the other?
(Yes, I know I'm supposed to do that upgrading too - I guess I never had a problem so never did lol)

 

[chris408]

thank god great to see it working now, but as it fixed your slow boot?

yes m8,pc is now faster, just run 3dmark 06,my score is 16900

 

[andyuk1]

glad u sorted it chris.but i will add i am never going to buy asus boards again.cant see why they cant bring this fix to all asus nforce boards.tossers.