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minime

04-13-2001, 10:05 PM

I just bought a p5a to host my amd k62 450.
I have a fuji 8.4 gig on my secondary IDE, and my bios doesn't detect it properly on initial power-up, but it does find it properly on warm boot..
Any ideas?
I've tried everything I can think of..
HELP!!

fyxxer32

04-14-2001, 06:28 AM

bios doesn't detect it properly on initial power-up.....what EXACTLY do you mean? Does it give you an error or what?

EastSt

04-14-2001, 09:38 PM

More info please...
What have you got hooked up to the primary and secondary IDEs.????
Tell us more .....

minime

04-15-2001, 11:32 AM

I have the drive as secondary master.
The bios simply fails to find it on cold boot, (I have it set to auto, but it does the same thing when I enter the drive info manually). It just sits there looking for it for a while, then says NONE and continues.
When windoze boots, the drive is visible, but the drive letters are all messed up.

araaraara

04-16-2001, 10:37 PM

I have that motherboard, and its BAT sibling. Both work fine for me. I have two old quantums on the p5a-b, and a 10.2gb western digital on the p5a. Maybe your drive is going bad?

scotter

04-17-2001, 12:13 AM

check and or replace the cable also check to make sure you have the drive jumpered the correct way

minime

04-17-2001, 09:46 AM

The drive is jumpered properly.
It works fine on my other board (FIC 503)...
If I delay the boot for a bit by disabling quick memory check it seems to work. My bios might just be running through before the drive has a chance to spin up. Anyone know how to introduce an ide delay in this Award bios?

scotter

04-17-2001, 10:18 AM

what are all your voltages at for your power supply and what size power supply are you using could be a little weak and not supplying enough power ?

EastSt

04-18-2001, 05:24 AM

Anyone know how to introduce an ide delay in
this Award bios?
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I don't have your mobo, just search the BIOS and if it supports that feature, then you'll find it. Good Luck_______

scotter

04-18-2001, 09:17 AM

disable Quick power on self test
that should give it anonter 15 to 30 sec's to boot time right from the start

fyxxer32

04-18-2001, 09:27 AM

Try this ASUS link http://asus.com/products/Motherboard/pentium/p5a/qa.html.
I had a problem with a timing problem on mine, I would get windows protection error msgs on boot up.There is a patch for it. Maybes theres a patch for you?