New motherboard is Bitching around.. :(

Archangel

Archangel

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Well... i got my A8N32 SLI Deluxe today,.. and it seems to work.. however, the USB doesnt work in windows (when i uninstal the USB device, and reinstall it in windows, it is installed and works however.. but it doesnt keep the working drivers for the next reboot, because then it isnt working anymore till i uninstal and reinstal them.)

Im using the windows of my old pc.. i gues that's what causing the problem... however,.. my pc doesnt want to boot a CD... i dont even get the option for it ( and yes, i have the CD as first boot device in the BIOS)
i gues thats my main problem,.. i cant reinstal windows it seems.

does anyone has any ideas?
 
keeps resetting. :( I think i have to reinstal Windows,... dut it seems to skip the boot sequence.
the chipsets were almost identical (Nforce 4 sli and now Nforce 4 SLI32 ).. i gues the difference is jsut too much for windows to work propperly.
 
A motherboard change is like russian roulette with windows being able to boot when you're done. You don't have to format just do a repair install.

ed: to boot from CD it usually will say 'press any key to boot from cd' or something similar then contiune with the booting from the next device.
 
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my problem is tough.. i cant boot from the CD... i can put the CD drives to 1st boot device, and it keeps that setting in the bios.. however,.. it just doesnt boot
 
Even setting to boot from CD, are you getting at the bottom of the screen ( Press any key to boot from cd ) or press such and such key for boot options?
 
I found it.. it has an option in the BIOS called "quick boot"
this function is Enabled by default.
quote from the manual
"Enabling this item allows the BIOS to skip some power on selftest (POST) while booting to decrease the time needed to boot the system"
when i disabled that option.. i did get the "pres any key to boot from CD option"

Now i know why i had a simple motherboard so far.. all these extra things are just confusing me.. :(
 
i have no idea,... to be honest, i didnt excpect to find something like that on a motherboard anyway... i mean... the pc boots up to windows in 28 seconds (from completely off, to windows Idle ) and that option reduces it by another 7 seconds.. thats all... i mean,. its not like its nececairy imo
 
Archangel said:
my problem is tough.. i cant boot from the CD... i can put the CD drives to 1st boot device, and it keeps that setting in the bios.. however,.. it just doesnt boot
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Is it a full version of Windows? What exactly do you have? Is it XP Pro, Home Edition or something else? I had some probs with my new M.B. and what I was used to using for a fresh install of XP Pro. Mine would not boot at into Windows until I did a fresh install. I don't have the bootable XP CD. I had to use the set of 6 set up floppies. :)
 
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Is it a full version of Windows? What exactly do you have? Is it XP Pro, Home Edition or something else? I had some probs with my new M.B. and what I was used to using for a fresh install of XP Pro. Mine would not boot at into Windows until I did a fresh install. I don't have the bootable XP CD. I had to use the set of 6 set up floppies. :)
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It was her motherboard bios settings not the windows CD!
 
Pretty nice... i just upped the clock to 210MHz, ( CPU at 2524MHz fully stable) its pretty late here now tough,... i'll have a look how far i can go with it tomorrow :)

and yes, it was a bios setting indeed, the problem you had was that your windoes was running a complete different chipset i think, mine were almost identical, thats why it did run windows (just not propperly) i guess
 
just raised the fsb to 220MHz :) (and enabled overvoltaging for HT and CPU , but the board chooses for its own if it does or not it seems :o )
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