ASRock N68-S freezes on restart

[DavidWR]

Hello,
Every time I reboot or restart the BIOS freezes after listing the HDA. It will not even go into Setup if I have pressed F2. I have changed the HDA and updated the BIOS but the problem still persists. The solution I use is to power down and count to 10 and apply power again and it works perfectly. So I assume the fault occurs because the disc is still spinning, anybody any ideas please?

 

[apache_lives]

ASRock as a brand is rubbish
Nvidia chipsets im not a fan of either

What PSU are you using?

Disable IDE ports? manually set ram speed/timings (667 CL5+)? Make sure it isnt overclocked?

 

[asrocker]

Such useful advice above - the motherboard is rubbish LOL

You may find a far more useful answer is turn off all of your ACPI settings in the BIOS.

Problem now solved.