Hello all,
Hopefully the mainboard forum is the right place for this.... but as you see I'm still searching myself for the exact problem. I would like to ask your aid with some PC problems. At the moment I am experiencing a frequent problem with my PC during boot. It's often stuck at the BIOS Splash screen, but not always..escpecially not after a power surge.
SPECS:
MB: Asus M5 A97 R2.0
RAM: 4x8 GB Corsair Vengeance - 1600 MHz DDR3
CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.00GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760
OS: Windows 7 64bit Ultimate NL (Up to date - besides language packs)
This PC booted earlier from a 80GB SATA disk, an oldie - no SSD. I just used it for a while, but wanted to replace it. At this point, I already encountered a strange problem in which the splash screen was sometimes stuck, or just 'hanging' for a very long time before continuing to boot.
So my initial thoughts were that the old HDD was dying. I replaced it with a 240 Kingston V300 SSD, something I already had in mind to do for a while. So I replaced it, used EaseUs Backup to clone it and went on with my work.
Yet I found out very quickly that this had not helped me with the boot problem, but that it just made it worse. Let me make a list of the issues:
Hanging splash screen occurs mostly at a reboot. And not too often after a power cycle. So when I disconnect the power cord, it works as it should be.
Whenever I disconnect all devices except the SSD it seems to work.
Whenever all SATA devices are connected, and it DOES start, it does so very slowly. -- booting takes about 1,5 minutes, which is not what it should be.
And the list of counter measures I've tried that did not work so far:
Update all drivers in Windows
Update/Flash SSD Firmware
Update/Flash BIOS
I encountered that I did not yet boot from my SSD, but from my D: disk. I fixed this through recovery
Tried booting with as many parts disconnected ; as bare as possible. All the parts that I have disconnected:
Sharkoon USB 3.0 front panel
DVD-RW
All RAM modules (just booting with one - and tried some new combi's)
USB Front panel that came with the case
Temperatures are fine
I would try booting without GPU, CPU and MB if that was possible....
Checken all the other harddsisks (even though I disconnected them) and they were fine.
Check Bios if AHCI is enabled
Check the SATA port sequence ; is 1 the boot disk etc
At first I thought this might be because I cloned my HDD to SSD, but in that case I would not get stuck at times in the BIOS splash, but I would have a 100% failure rate on booting.
In the 50/50 case I get to boot succesfully and once I am in Windows, it seems to run smooth enough.
So I have a lot of questions that keep me wondering. What might be the cause of this? Could this be a dying PSU? Do I overlook something?
Please ask me if I need to post more information or try to expand on what I tell here.
Thanks in advance for anyone taking the time for reading this
Hopefully the mainboard forum is the right place for this.... but as you see I'm still searching myself for the exact problem. I would like to ask your aid with some PC problems. At the moment I am experiencing a frequent problem with my PC during boot. It's often stuck at the BIOS Splash screen, but not always..escpecially not after a power surge.
SPECS:
MB: Asus M5 A97 R2.0
RAM: 4x8 GB Corsair Vengeance - 1600 MHz DDR3
CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.00GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760
OS: Windows 7 64bit Ultimate NL (Up to date - besides language packs)
This PC booted earlier from a 80GB SATA disk, an oldie - no SSD. I just used it for a while, but wanted to replace it. At this point, I already encountered a strange problem in which the splash screen was sometimes stuck, or just 'hanging' for a very long time before continuing to boot.
So my initial thoughts were that the old HDD was dying. I replaced it with a 240 Kingston V300 SSD, something I already had in mind to do for a while. So I replaced it, used EaseUs Backup to clone it and went on with my work.
Yet I found out very quickly that this had not helped me with the boot problem, but that it just made it worse. Let me make a list of the issues:
Hanging splash screen occurs mostly at a reboot. And not too often after a power cycle. So when I disconnect the power cord, it works as it should be.
Whenever I disconnect all devices except the SSD it seems to work.
Whenever all SATA devices are connected, and it DOES start, it does so very slowly. -- booting takes about 1,5 minutes, which is not what it should be.
And the list of counter measures I've tried that did not work so far:
Update all drivers in Windows
Update/Flash SSD Firmware
Update/Flash BIOS
I encountered that I did not yet boot from my SSD, but from my D: disk. I fixed this through recovery
Tried booting with as many parts disconnected ; as bare as possible. All the parts that I have disconnected:
Sharkoon USB 3.0 front panel
DVD-RW
All RAM modules (just booting with one - and tried some new combi's)
USB Front panel that came with the case
Temperatures are fine
I would try booting without GPU, CPU and MB if that was possible....
Checken all the other harddsisks (even though I disconnected them) and they were fine.
Check Bios if AHCI is enabled
Check the SATA port sequence ; is 1 the boot disk etc
At first I thought this might be because I cloned my HDD to SSD, but in that case I would not get stuck at times in the BIOS splash, but I would have a 100% failure rate on booting.
In the 50/50 case I get to boot succesfully and once I am in Windows, it seems to run smooth enough.
So I have a lot of questions that keep me wondering. What might be the cause of this? Could this be a dying PSU? Do I overlook something?
Please ask me if I need to post more information or try to expand on what I tell here.
Thanks in advance for anyone taking the time for reading this
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