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Gigabyte GA71-XE Slow BIOS!
Name: Andrew Wain Date: July 13, 2003 at 05:19:24 Pacific OS: Windows ME 4.90.3000 CPU/Ram: AMD Duron 700 / 320MB RAM
Comment:
Hi, this is a wierd one and I haven't seen it anywhere else. It sometimes (about 40% of the time) takes my computer 3 mins just to check the nvram when I first turn it on. I have never flashed the bios, so I am thinking that this could be a virus.
Have been searching the internet for ages, but have never come accross anything similar. The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA71-XE and it has AmiBIOS version 1.23.
PLEASE help someone, waiting this long to boot up is beyond a joke!
PS - started around the same time as I networked the computer, but i think it happened a couple of times before that.
Name: capt Date: July 13, 2003 at 06:16:48 Pacific
Reply:
Have you checked your RAM? Try removing one of your sticks of RAM. Then try using no more than a max of 256 in any combination of RAM that you have, instead of 320.
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Response Number 2
Name: wawadave Date: July 13, 2003 at 12:08:16 Pacific
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you could set bios not to check memory on start.
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Response Number 3
Name: Andrew Wain Date: July 19, 2003 at 06:28:12 Pacific
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Thanks for that - I will check the combination of memory in the computer. I had already disabled the memory test, it seemed to be happening before it even got that far.
Don't you just find it annoying when these things only happen some of the time!
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Response Number 4
Name: attia Date: July 22, 2003 at 15:08:38 Pacific
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i have faced some things like that the first was the same kind( not sure about model) of motherborad the agent sayies its facked have alot problem & 2nd problem is kind of conflect or wrong connection ( around cdrom drive & harddisk) & 3rd case ihave been forgtten while iam writting good luck
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