Re: Can't get A7V133 to boot from USB floppy or CDROM
- From: ohaya <ohaya@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:06:07 -0500
Hi,
For the record, I was just able to get this working.
The key clue was on this page:
http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpu_support_right_master.aspx?type=1&name=A7V133
Note that the Athlon XP 1900+ was supported on all Rev 1.05
motherboards, but only after BIOS version 1007!!
The funny thing was that that was actually the reason that I wanted to
upgrade the BIOS in the 1st place, but I didn't think the V1004 BIOS
would've prevented it from booting with the Athlon XP 1900+.
Anyway, I dug up an old Athlon 850 (which according to that page is
supported on all BIOS versions, and VOILA, the mobo was able to boot
from either CDROM or from USB floppy drive!!
I then flashed the BIOS to 1010B, and it recognized the Athlon XP 1900+
CPU and also booted to either CDROM or USB floppy.
Jim
ohaya wrote:
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Hi,
I'm sure that that (position of CDROM on IDE cable) was correct in all
cases, and as mentioned earlier, I've tried several CD drives on several
different cables. I also tried moving the cable to the 2nd IDE, and the
2 different "ATA100" connectors (the A7V133 has 4 of the same
connectors, and a built-in Promise ATA100 controller).
Still no success though...
Is there something "unusual" about the A7V133 BIOS settings to get it to
boot?
Jim
BlackRain wrote:
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:55:23 -0500, ohaya <ohaya@xxxxxxx> managed to one finger
type the following:
just out of curiosity...make sure the CDROM is set according to the IDE...if the
pins on the CDROM is set to Slave..make sure your on the Slave IDE Part of the
Cable..and same if set to Master.
Hi,
I don't have a regular floppy, but if it can't boot from a USB floppy
(even though the BIOS seems to indicate that it can), shouldn't it be
able to boot from CDROM if it's set in BIOS (which it is)?
To be clear, the "PCI device list" starts to display, then everything
just hangs at that point. No errors saying that it can't find a boot
device or anything like that. Just a blinking cursor at the bottom of
the display :(...
Jim
Venom wrote:
You will never get it to boot from a USB device. Mount a floppy in the
machine to do what you want and then remove it if you feel you can live
without a hard wired floppy drive.
"ohaya" <ohaya@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:441D106F.202B0ABB@xxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I inherited an older A7V133 motherboard along with some RAM, and figured
I'd try to put together a spare PC. I have an Athlon XP 1900+
installed.
The machine powers on, and I can get into the BIOS, and since the BIOS
version is 1004, I wanted to update the BIOS to 1010.
I have a USB floppy with the BIOS update, and when I set the BIOS to
boot from USB floppy, it looks like it's not trying to boot from the USB
floppy.
So, I burned a bootable floppy image onto CD, and tried to configure
BIOS to boot from CDROM, but the same thing happens. I know that this
CD is bootable, because I can boot from it on a different machine.
What happens when I power up is I see the BIOS display, it recognizes
the USB floppy drive and it sees the CDROM drive. The last thing it
displays is the list of PCI devices, then it just sits there forever.
I've tried different cables, both 40-wire and 80-wire, and I've tried
setting the CDROM drive to Master, and also tried setting the drive to
cable select. I've also tried two different CDROM drives, but no matter
what I've tried, the boot just hangs at the PCI device list.
Can anyone tell me what, if anything, I might try to get this machine to
boot off of either the USB floppy or my bootable CDROM??
Thanks,
Jim
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