Re: P5E MB slow POST


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A poster here, mentions a "37 second delay" when using ECC RAM. Are you
using ECC RAM perhaps ?

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20080121080220781&board_id=1&model=P5E&page=1&SLanguage=en-us



Yes I am using ECC RAM.
I experience a similar delay which points to the same cause (me thinks)

Btw, in that thread Petr notes "System won't start up, even the display is
not initialized." - this is what I experience!.
He also notes "POST card shows POST code 55, but I don't know what means
POST code 55 in today AMI BIOSes."

Do you know the meaning of POST code 55 Paul?.



Looking at a few articles on vip.asus.com, the P5E seems to have a
number of faults. It seems to have just outright died on a number
of people. But the above post, is the first one that mentions a
delay.


Mine's already been RMAed. It first arrived DOA (dead on arrival).



Perhaps you could elaborate further on exactly how it starts up
and what you see on the screen.

Will look at this in the morning.



You can use the "Pause" key, to stop the printing on the screen,
so you have enough time to read the text. I know some BIOS don't
wait very long, and you'd need ninja reflexes to hit the Pause
at exactly the right time.

Paul

Thanks. I'll work on my Ninja reflexes


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