 Re: Motherboard bugs
Catani <no@spam.invalid> wrote:
>> Cataniwrote:
> Dear all!
>> For some reason my IDE ports won’t see my hard-drives. I installed a
> IDE Rocket raid 404 in a PCI slot and tried to boot Windows through
> it. Now the hard-drives are identified, but when Windows starts to
> load, the screen soon flashes and the computer reboots. After a few
> tries now the computer won’t even start to load Windows through the
> raid. Now and then I can successfully load Windows though one of the
> motherboard IDE ports. Then upon next boot-up no hard-drive is found.
> So everything points to either the IDE cable or the hard-drive, but
> I’ve tried different cables and different hard-drives with the same
> result. What is going on? And why the reboot when loading through the
> raid? Thank you for your attention.
>
> The motherboard seems to be remembering a bit more than the bios
> settings, even with the battery turned off. I wonder if there is a way
> to reset the motherboard completely in order to delete bugs and
> unconstructive habits. Because I’m starting to believe that my hard
> drive problem may be due to a motherboard bug. Either that or it has
> become oversensitive to the quality of the IDE cable. You see, every
> time that I tried with a different IDE cable, or with a different IDE
> port, or a different hard drive, the problem was all of a sudden gone.
> Then after a while it was back. But at last I could’t load windows a
> single time with any of the 5 IDE cables I tried, because the computer
> started to reboot each and every time windows was loading – at the
> exact same place every time, as if it had learned a new habit. By the
> way, I was surprised to notice that bios now had started to remember
> the time and date since the last time the computer was on, even though
> the battery was removed for hours. Then again I changed to the other
> of my 2 hard drives and at last installed a brand new IDE cable. And
> now the bad habit was finally broken and windows is loading again.
> This hard drive that I got to work now is one that I used for a few
> years until the discribed problem began. At first the computer would
> start to hang after a certain sound from the hardware. Then one day
> the hard disk was not found during boot up. I reasoned that the hard
> disk was about to fail, and got a new one. Imagine my surprise when I
> connected it and there was still no hard disk found. I then reasoned
> that it must have been the IDE cable that was bad, and changed to
> another IDE hard disk cable I had, but at the same time connected it
> not to IDE1, where the other cable had been, but to IDE 2. Well I have
> to say the hard disk was found now, and the computer worked well for
> about 6 months, the hard disk was always found, only the last month
> the problem with the computer hanging after a sound from the hardware
> became more and more frequent. And then one day when electricity went
> off for half a second and the computer rebooted, the old problem was
> back again. No hard disk found. I would change something – IDE cable,
> IDE port, or power input, and the problem seemed to be solved. Then
> later it was back. And so on.
> I guess my questions are: can the motherboard really
> become oversensitive to the quality of the IDE cable?
Nope.
> And how do you reset the motherboard completely?
There should be a jumper on the motherboard to do that.
If the time is retained when the battery is out for hours, most likely
you still had it plugged into the mains when you left the battery out
and thats your problem, you arent actually resetting the cmos at all.
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