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uzzled

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 5:35 pm
Post subject: Cold boot SATA on NF7-S
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I'm running my NF7-S v2 with BIOS 23. I boot from a 160Gb HD using the
serillel adapter on SATA1. I have a 400w power supply.

On cold boot, the drive doesn't get detected. I have to leave the machine on
for about a minute and then turn it off at the mains and then on again
before it is detected. Just hitting Ctrl + Alt + Del (without powering off
from the mains) doesn't work.

This problem happens nearly everytime (now that it is winter in the UK) but
only occasionally in the summer. Any ideas on this please ?

Thanks in advance.

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:35 pm
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"?uzzled" <not DeleteThis @got.one> wrote in message...
 > I'm running my NF7-S v2 with BIOS 23. I boot from a 160Gb HD
 > using the serillel adapter on SATA1. I have a 400w power supply.
 >
 > On cold boot, the drive doesn't get detected. I have to leave the machine
 > on for about a minute and then turn it off at the mains and then on again
 > before it is detected. Just hitting Ctrl + Alt + Del (without powering off
 > from the mains) doesn't work.
 >
 > This problem happens nearly everytime (now that it is winter in the UK)
 > but only occasionally in the summer. Any ideas on this please ?

Weird, sounds like an intermittent contact or a dry joint somewhere that
sorts itself out once the circuits warm up a bit.

You need to run a process of elimination to see if you can isolate it. Swap
from SATA1 to SATA2, try and borrow another Serillel, connect the drive
directly to a parallel ATA port, etc. etc. etc. Sooner or later you should
work out where the problem lies.
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:35 pm
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"Richard Hopkins" <richh.DeleteThis@dsl.nospam.com> wrote in message
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 > Weird, sounds like an intermittent contact or a dry joint somewhere that
 > sorts itself out once the circuits warm up a bit.
 >
 > You need to run a process of elimination to see if you can isolate it.
Swap
 > from SATA1 to SATA2, try and borrow another Serillel, connect the drive
 > directly to a parallel ATA port, etc. etc. etc. Sooner or later you should
 > work out where the problem lies.
 > --


When it first happened, I thought the SATA cable had come loose. I pulled it
out and did try it on SATA2 for a while but got the same result. I then put
it back to SATA1.

Unfortunately, I don't know anybody else with a serillel adapter.

I did originally try the 160Gb Hitachi 7K250 on the primary IDE channel as a
master drive and it didn't have a problem. I moved it to SATA1 so I could
free up the IDE connectors for 2 additional drives, and I thought it would
be faster to have my main drive on its own channel.

When the computer boots up, it works flawlessly. It's just bothersome to
have to turn it on and then off again just to use it.

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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2005 4:35 am
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Why not try the 2.7 bios for that thing and set the bios to boot from the
sata controller in the boot order, not HD0 etc. The sata part of the bios is
only one of many fixes for our beloved board since version 2.3.

Bob "hopelessly insane machine warrior" Troll

PS: This link will most likely break so copy and paste it if you can.

http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/download/download_detail.php?pFILE_TYPE...os&pMAI
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 5:35 am
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"Bob Troll" <fluffy DeleteThis @farmyard.com> wrote in message
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 > Why not try the 2.7 bios for that thing and set the bios to boot from the
 > sata controller in the boot order, not HD0 etc. The sata part of the bios
is
 > only one of many fixes for our beloved board since version 2.3.
 >
 > Bob "hopelessly insane machine warrior" Troll
 >
 > PS: This link will most likely break so copy and paste it if you can.
 >
 >
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/download/download_detail.php?pFILE_TYPE=Bios&pMAIN_TYPE=Motherboard&pTITLE_ON_SCREEN=NF7-S+V2.0&pSOCKET_TYPE=Socket+A" target="_blank">http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/download/download_detail.php?pFILE_TYPE...os&pMAI</a>
 >
 >

Thanks. I hadn't realised there was a newer BIOS update that had updates to
the SATA controller also. I'll give it a go.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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