nForce2 MPT chipset, So so close

STaN

Recently bought a ASUS A7N8X motherboard.

Overall, system preformance has gone up just over 20% from my old SiS 745 chipset. Did a few benchmarks, but if your a gamer, you will appretiate this board. My 3D Mark Max 2001SE score jumped from around 9000 to over 11500 so its a pretty substantial jump. I'm using a geforce4 Ti4600.

I only got this motherboard because the above was giving me grief.

There is one little problem with it though, when windows 2000 boots it takes twice as long. This is at the graphical loadup screen where the blue bar moves across. I don't know whats going on here, but the optical light on my mouse seems to flicker on and off about 5 times and there is no hard disk activity.

Anyone seen or read about this? I dunno if it might be trying to negotiate the twin network cards or process the hardware, i don't know. That's the only hang up in an otherwise great board.

And there was only one dodgy entry in the win2k event log...
===========
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: Dhcp
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1007
Date: 22/11/2002
Time: 01:55:44
User: N/A
Computer: S01
Description:
Your computer has automatically configured the IP address for the Network Card with network address 00E018BB6045. The IP address being used is 169.254.236.65.
Data:
0000: 00 00 00 00 ....
===========

Don't know if that would have any effect. Thats the only error I could find. Would a boot log help, cheers.

MagicBusDriver

It could be the computer is looking for a DHCP server for its ip address?

Mess around with network setings, maybe give it a static ip (eg 192.168.0.1)

STaN

Heres my bootlog... some weird entries :S

longword

Did you wipe out your Windows installation when moving to the new board? Windows generally hates waking up with all new hardware.

STaN

i tried just installing the new board, but got the blue screen of death on bootup.

So formatted and reinstalled (twice), but alas the system now takes and extra 70secs to even get into windows.

STaN

Good news,

fixed the problem, only requiring ALL of the updates on the MS update things. Look 2-3hours to install them. No more waiting though. Just thought id share my experience, seen as the chipset's only been released.

Gerry

If you can get hibernate working on your machine, windows bootup times will be cut to maybe 10 seconds max.

Hibernate copies the current contents of ram to disk, so when the computer boots up, it just has to load this from disk, no messing around detecting hardware or initializing anything. And windows is responsive straight away, in the exact same state as you left it.
Can be a bit dodgy to get working on some boards. Have a look anyway.

STaN

nice.

is there a url one could follow?

Gerry

Well if you look at power options in control panel, there should be a hibernate tab. If this is greyed out, you should look to enable it in the power management section of your bios setup first.