Booting error

[Petter Adsen]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 08:33:45 -0500
"C.Tresenriter" <ctres at grics.net> wrote:

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> On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 14:15 +0100, Petter Adsen wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 07:58:56 -0500
> > This *sounds* a lot like a hardware problem, but it's hard to know
> > for sure without closer inspection :) I don't know if this will be
> > helpful, but I have a couple of suggestions. Have you tried to look
> > for a newer version of the BIOS on ASUS' web pages? There is a beta
> > version from 2005/06/28 - maybe you could try that. Also, try
> > running memtest on the newest RAM sticks, if it fails, try another
> > pair. If you can, try tunning memtest on the same sticks in another
> > machine to get an idea of whether it is the sticks themselves or
> > something on the motherboard.
> > 
> > It's odd that the disks don't show up in the BIOS settings except if
> > you use the RAID setting, and I wouldn't want to use that, I think.
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> I was hesitant to upgrade the bios as all I've read tells me not to
> upgrade unless the new version addresses an issue that is present. I
> did look at the beta version but it fixes something I don't need so I
> abandoned the idea.

That's a perfectly good reason not to do it. Have you looked at the
other versions available, that might be newer than the one you are
currently running?

> I'm putting together another machine and will run memtest on the
> sticks on it.

Also run it on this machine, to see if it fails there. That might give
you more of an idea where the problem lies.

> It also seems odd that the drives show in post but not under hard
> drives in the bios.

Yes. That mystifies me too. Have you tried googling for the motherboard
model number and "drive not detected", or something like that? I did a
quick search here, and there were a few things suggested that you can
try out, like swapping the cables etc.

> I'm wondering now if, in the worst case, there may be a chip on the
> motherboard I could try to replace.

Well, that sounds like an avenue of last resort :)

> It would be worth a shot if it wasn't too expensive an experiment.

At some point it might just be better to admit defeat and invest in a
new motherboard. If the last BIOS update was in 2005, I assume the
board itself is old. Capacitors, the battery, etc don't last forever.

Maybe the BIOS itself is corrupted, in some way, so that reflashing the
version you already have could help. I really don't know what else to
suggest, I suspect the day of reckoning has come for that motherboard.

Again, good luck.

Petter

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