K9a Sata boot problem

I have 1 SATA drive on a K9A Platinum mobo. When I boot (WIN XP) about 1 time out of 3, I get a message that says "not a system disk. Hit any key to reboot". I have to power cycle or hit the alt/ctl/del keys before it will correctly boot. I have the latest bios (1.4)(also did same thing with 1.3). I am running only 1 SATA HDD and 1 IDE CD burner. No raid drivers installed.

ALWAYS try another cable. All it takes is a tiny, not even completely through, invisable to the naked eye, under the casing break in a strand to give you a headache. It could even be a cheap cable, or one that doesn't quite meet spec and got past QA, maybe it's leaking or receiving EMI. Who knows. Just try another cable!

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Sata Boot problem.

I have a MSI K8T Neo, and have installed WinXp on my Sata disk. But when i rebooted it couldnt find any bootable sector on that disk. How do I make my sata disk bootable? I have set the sata as first boot disk.
The installed WinXp is on my D: drive if that helps understanding my problem.
A normal IDE drive is also installed and works as C:
I couldnt make any changes in the sata bios, so im not sure how to make it boot.
So XP is installed properly on my D: drive but it wont boot..
What shall i do ?
/Biggie

Hi
The MBR is on the C: drive, i presume, but if you just had the sataid you boot?
If there is only 1 copy of XP, and it boots, it will be from the C: drive but usinfg the D: OS. If you have not got any other HDD than the SATA, then you can use FIXMBR to write an MBR. From the XP CD let it instal, use the F6 routine until it asks if you wish to install repair or quit, opt for repair, and when the list of drives with an OS appear select the correct No. for the drive you want to put an MBR on, and when the prompt :> appears, type in FIXMBR, and follow instruction.
You can also use the win98/ME startup disk, but type in Fix MBR.
Before you start have a look in Disk Management, Right click My Computer, Manage, Disk management, and see if it can be sorted there.
Cheers
jocko

How to install Windows on a SATA boot drive

Here is how to install Windows XP on a SATA boot drive. This procedure was first developed by syar2003 and has been used by many iusers ncluding myself. Although it was originally developed for Neo2 mb's and Windows XP Pro, it has general applicability to systems as well.
1. Have only the SATA drive you want to be the boot drive active in your system. Disconnect the power to all other HDD's if any.
2. Have only one optical drive active. Disconnect the power to the other opticals if any. (Best to have a burner optical as master on IDE1.)
3. Plug SATA drive into SATA 1 on the mb. (it may show us as an IDE drive somewhere down the list in BIOS. That's okl)
4. Enable appropriate SATA options in BIOS. Set boot order to floppy, cd, SATA drive. Set boot priority to SATA drive.
5. Partition and format the SATA HDD using the utilites CD that came with the SATA drive. (If you don't have an HDD utilities disk, download one from the website of your HDD manufacturer.)
6. Run Windows setup. No need to load drivers at the F6 promt unless you are planning to do a RAID configuration.
7. Windows XP should install without incident.
8. After you are up and running, plug the power back into your other HDD and optical drives if any.
If you have a board older than the K8 series, it may be necessary to load the SATA drivers at the F6 prompt. If the above procedure does not work, than try it again loading the SATA drivers.
If this procedure does not work for you, it is likely that your particular SATA HDD has some compatablity problem with Windows setup and/or your motherboard. The solution to this is to try another SATA drive. In general, most failures using this procedure have been traced to certain WD, Seagate and Hitachi SATA drivers of smaller capacities. Fewer problems seem to have occured with Maxtor HDD's.

Kaplan, from an earlier post of mine regarding sata2 hdds - I have them plugged into the sata1&2 ports, installed the nvidia raid first and then installed winxp (in both raid 0 and raid 1). My bios is 3.1 and its a known problem that bios 3.3 & 3.4 have nvidia raid problems but seems to be fixed in the beta bios 3.53:
I just purchased 2 hitachi deskstar sata2 80gb hdds ($60 each at zzf) and the interesting thing about them is that you have to "enable" sata2. I have been testing the performance of sata1, sata2, raid1 and raid0 and the results are below.
The drives themselves are factory default set at sata1. Since I purchased OEM, no software or instructions were included. I had to go to the hitachi website download section to download a dos based program (the features program) to enable sata2. After enabling the hdds to sata2, they were recognized in winxp in the nforce ADMA controller device driver and the screen reads with the primary channel as Serial ATA Generation 2 - 3G...and all 4 boxes below it are checked (the boxes enable bios select xfer mode, enable read caching, enable write caching and enable command queuing are checked). An interesting thing about the sata2 spec is that all sata2 hdds must come standard with NCQ...its not advertised on these 80 gb hdds on the hitachi website (unlike the larger hitachi sata2 hdds) but its a standard sata2 spec and these 80gb hitachi hdds are recoginized in winxp as sata2.
The other interesting feature about the hitachi sata2 hdds is setting them up to operate in an adjustable "performance" to "silence" mode. The hdds are default set at high perfromance but you can manually lower the performance to increase the silence of the hdds which is fully adjustable to your liking. I tested the highest silence/lowest performance setting and you cannot hear the hard drive at all.
Testing - I tested the 2 hitachi sata2 deskstars with the first result in sata1 mode, the second in sata2 mode, the third in raid1 mode and the fourth in raid0 mode.
First, a significant increase in raid0 over sata1, sata2 and raid1 with sequential reads and writes (PC Wizard).
Write: 28mb/s vs 29mb/s vs 27mb/s vs 53mb/s
Read: 45mb/s vs 46mb/s vs 43mb/s vs 83mb/s
Second, significant increase in sata 2, raid 1 & raid 0 over sata1 with buffered reads and writes (PC Wizard).
Write: 104mb/s vs 176mb/s vs 165mb/s vs 266mb/s
Read: 123mb/s vs 200mb/s vs 200mb/s vs 293mb/s
Third, significant increase in sata 2, raid 1 & raid 0 over sata1 with burst reads (HD Tach).
Burst Read: 133mb/s vs 225mb/s vs 219mb/s vs 334 mb/s
It is interesting to note that raid1 is better than sata1 but marginally slower in all tests over sata2. Raid0 is significantly faster on all tests.

Cold boot problem with X-FI Fata1ty card... Need serious help!

Hey guys:
I just finished upgrading my computer. Realized that I have a cold boot problem. In order to identify the source of problem. I began the following test.
. Remove everything except, cpu, heatsink, ram, video card. Tried to boot with those devices. => No cold boot problem.
2. Install the rest of the ram sticks (I have 4 x 52 in total). => No cold boot problem.
3. Install the other video card (my setup is 7900gtx in SLI) => No cold boot problem.
4. Install the Creative X-FI Fataty card. => COLD BOOT PROBLEM
Once the computer is shut down via the front power switch on the case, the computer will not boot again. To boot the computer, I need to switch off the main power switch on the back of the psu and switch it back on; then turn on the computer via the front power switch on the case. I tried the problem with and without the sound card. Whenever the sound card is installed. There is the problem. If there is no that sound card in my rig, then there won't be any cold-boot problem.
My rig specs:
DFI Lanparty nF4 SLI-DR Venus
AMD Opteron 65 CCBE 609 - Stock speed
4 x 52 MB G.Skill Samsung TCCD LE 2.85V DDR 400
CPU Cooling - Tuniq tower 20
2 x EVGA 7900 GTX Stock - SLI
3 x WD Raptor 74G RAID-0 SATA (-3) 0000 rpm (System)
x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 60Gb 7200RPM NCQ SATA - 4 (Backup)
Pioneer Black DVR 0 DVD+/-RW - IDE /0
Lian-li PC-V 200B Plus-2 with little case mod
OCZ GameXstream 600W
Creative Fatalty Sound Card w/ Front Panel
Logitech Z5500 5. speakers
I need serious help. This problem is so annoying.
Tnanks and will greatly appreciate it.Message Edited by White_Hair on 0-27-200605:4 PM

The onboard sound is disabled. Unfortunately I sold the Seasonic PSU to my friend. The OCZ GameXStream is suppose to be the higher grade psu than Seasonic PSU. Also, the cold boot problem only exists if the sound card is plugged to the motherboard. I tried change different pci slot. It doesn't seem to help the problem. Thanks for the reply Message Edited by White_Hair on 2-02-200606:07 AM

Using SATA Boot Drive & Promise UATA Card

I recently decided to put an extra 2, 200 gb hard drives into my system using a PCI ATA Controller Card. The only problem I have doing this is that my SATA Boot drives won't boot. The system Bios keeps trying to boot from the PCI Hard drives. Is there anything I can do to fix this or am I pretty much SOL and should just buy a K8T800? Specs are listed below.
MSI K7N2D-ILSR
Athlon XP 2500
2x256 PC3200 CL 2.0
NVidia 5700 Ultra 128

your out of luck unless msi sort the bios out,which i dout will happen
its a shame as other older boards have multiple boot options,ie onboard raid or a card

Sorry, but another boot problem

I am sorry to ask this question but I have read all of the recent posts on boot problems and followed all instructions but I am still having a problem. It passes the POST then gives the Boot Failure, insert boot disk into drive A message. The only thing I have not done is install a new bios. I have only got one SATA HDD, one CD Writer and floppy.
I have plugged the HD into SATA1 and the CD into IDE1, during the boot sequence it see the CD as Primary Master1 and the HDD as Third IDE Master.
During the POST it passes memory test and can detect both the HDD and CD and floppy.
I have set the HDD settings as follows:
Native Mode
ATA Config= S-ATA only
S-ATA keep enabled = Yes
P-ATA keep enabled = Yes
P-ATA Channel Selection = Both
Combined Mode = S-ATA 1st channel
S-ATA ports definition = P0-1st/P1-2nd
Also I have set the Boot sequence as follows:
1st boot = CD
2nd boot = HDD
3rd boot = floppy
I have built this PC only in the last few days and there is no operating system yet, it has the following specs:
BIOS A6728IMS 3.5 020504
865PE Neo2
Pentium 4 2.40aGhz
2 x 256 Kingston 400Mhz PC3200
128MB Excalibur RADEON 9200 8xAGP
Seagate 80Gb S-ATA HDD
LiteOn 52x CD Writer
PSU: 3.3v 28A, 5v 32A, 12v 16A (350W)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Thanks, its good to know that I seem to have set it up ok but when I try to boot from the cd (Windows Server 2003) it still says there is a boot failure please insert disk into drive A???
Adam
BIOS A6728IMS 3.5 020504
865PE Neo2
Pentium 4 2.40aGhz
2 x 256 Kingston 400Mhz PC3200
128MB Excalibur RADEON 9200 8xAGP
Seagate 80Gb S-ATA HDD
LiteOn 52x CD Writer
PSU: 3.3v 28A, 5v 32A, 12v 16A (350W)

Lost My SATA Boot Disk

Hi all lost my SATA boot floppy that came with my MSI 6702 K8T800 Neo FIS2R, at first it wasnt a problem, but am shortly going to rebuild with only SATA Drive, so can anyone copy their disk and send the contents to me please. I'll be using XP (32 bit)
Cheers in advance

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Originally posted by Jocko
Hi
Yes, its on addy book, Via sent, I'll send promise as well. Let me know they arrived OK.
Cheers
Jocko
Got the VIA ones Cheers!

Cpu socket looks strange-can be cause of boot problem?

Actual question: can cpu socket like on attached picture cause boot problems?
tinypic.com/r/1pxnxs/6
(Some pins look strange while I am sure I did not do anything which can cause that)
(Sorry was not able attach pic, so shared on external site - blame android?)
I got problem with booting msi g33m motherboard, I tried various ways and was able to boot couple times, but after reboot the problem returns. When disassembly components for nth time, I noticed strange hole in cpu socket, so I wonder if it can be reason for boot problems? Currently fans run in ÷half speed when nothing connected to mb, if I connect gpu or sata drive, fans are pulsing, and led near power button on tower is blinking, but nothing more happens.

The pin(s) are bent it seems and can be carefully bent back to proper alignment most of the time using tweezers and or tiny jewelers/eyeglass screwdriver.
Yes the problem you describe can definitely be caused by poor pin contact with the pads on the CPU. Depending on what pins are bent or make poor contact there could be many different kinds of problems. In fact many more on newer ones with memory controller and other controllers in the CPU that used to be in the northbridge chip. If you or a friend, family member can't bend pin(s) back into alignment then possibly you could have a local jeweler or watch repair shop do it for you.

K7N2G-ILSR raid boot problem

Hi,
I have an msi K7N2G-ILSR mobo and am having boot problems on the raid system.
Everything worked fine (raid 0 set up sata) and would boot fine, the bios had to be set up to look for other boot devices in order for the system to boot with raid drives.
Problem occurred when I added an ide card to give me 2 more ide channels. Still fine if I only connect cd roms to new card but as soon as I connect a hard drive it appears the msi board stops looking for the raid drives as a boot device, because I get the message NIVIDIA Boot Agen PXE-2.0(build 082 v1.82)
Copyright......................(info)
Copyright......................(info)
CLIENT MAC ADDR 00 10 DC E1 4C AD GUID:
FFFFFFFFFF..-FFF..-FFFFFF... etc.
PXE-53: No boot filename received.
PXE-MOF: Exiting NVIDIA Boot Agent
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
It seams there needs to be a bios update as when you scroll through boot options (first, second & third) in advanced setup there is no choice for raid. Therefore the only way to boot from raid is to choose “look for other boot devices” and that is OK until you add a second ide card with hard drive on.
I have version 1.6 bios (latest on msi`s site)
Any idears on how to get round this ?

Hi Raven,
For your info windows xp will support any number of ide channels (upto the number of spare pci slots you have).
I have another computer that has 2 extra ide cards in and has 2 dvd`s (on seprate channels) & 6 hard drives as well as raid hard drive set up. Windows is not confused and supports all devices and has done for the last few months ! This mobo has boot from raid in its bios so has no problems on boot up. The reason I need so many ide channels is simply I do video work and need loads of storage space so until I can buy 800gb hard drives for a reasnable price I am stuck with having to buy 200gb drives.
As I said it looks like either a bios update from msi or I`m going to have to buy a new mobo.
Regards.

Z87-GD65 boot problems

Hello, my pc has trouble booting up, whenever it starts it runs for about 2-3 seconds and turns off and goes into a boot-loop. However i have found a way to work my way around this by pressing the power button longer (during the boot problem) and after that it boots up just fine. What do you guys think that is wrong with it? Whenever it has been running and i restart the pc it boots without problem. It is only there when i boot up in the morning when the PC has been turned off for a while
Board: MSI Z87 G45
BIOS: 1.30
GPU: EVGA GTX 770
PSU: Corsair CX 750
CPU: Intel i5 4670K
Memory: 2x G-Skill ripjaws 1866MHz
HDD: 1TB WD Blue SATA III
SSD: Samsung 840 120GB
Cooler: H100i watercooling
OS: Windows 7 64 bit Pro

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However i have found a way to work my way around this by pressing the power button longer (during the boot problem) and after that it boots up just fine.
Kind of indicates a power problem. Recommend you try it with a fan running directly off the PSU. A HDD is not what I am trying to convey here. If you have any sleep or hibernate features enabled, the fan connected directly may be the key to it starting when you hit the button normal.
RAM test is still a good idea though.
Added: Here is some interesting reading;
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=169588.msg1239767#msg1239767

P45 Platinum boot problem!!!

PC specs in signature below!!
Ok, this is a new system, and it has been running GREAT since I started it for the first time. I am running my RAM with manual settings of 5 5 5 18/1.8v/800. Nothing is overclocked!!
Anyway, this morning I get to the office anxiously anticipating starting up my new system for a day of pristine computing. It starts up, the screen appears where you can hit "delete" to enter the bios. The screen hangs there for allot longer than I remember. Then, I get this message popping up on the screen: ''Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device''.
The first thing I did was hit Ctrl/Alt/Del to reboot and enter the bios to check my boot order. Everything was set exactly the way it is supposed to be. CD/RW first, then my OS drive. I exit out, and it boots into windows just fine.
Ok, later I decide to run check disk on my OS drive, thinking that maybe it's going bad, and the bios is having trouble seeing it. Check disk finishes, and it goes to boot into windows, and I get the ''Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device'' message again.
So, once again I hit Ctrl/Alt/Del to reboot, and it hangs on the screen where you can enter the bios. I quickly hit delete this time to enter the bios to see if my operating system drive is recognized. When I do this, it enters the bios, but hangs for awhile where it detects the hardware. Finally I can get to all the features in the bios, so I check to see if my hardware is recognized. Both my SATA hard drives do not show up as being recognized. My SATA CD/RW shows up, but not my hard drives.
So, I exit out of the bios, and it boots to windows just fine. I restart my system again to see what happens, and it boot just fine into windows.
Anyway, I went ahead and shut down my system, pulled the power plug, and cleared the CMOS. I then started the system back, entered the bios and set up all my settings, and it boots right into windows fine.
What do you think happened here? At first I thought maybe my OS drive was going bad, but after discovering that the bios didn't see either one of my drives, I ruled that out. Plus check disk was fine on the OS drive.
Any ideas??

Ok, I am still having an issue with this boot problem described above. Now that I have used my system allot more, I have discovered some more details. This boot problem only occurs when I plug anything into the system that gets noticed in the "boot order" in the bios. Example: USB thumb drive, external hard drive, or even swapping out an internal drive. The next time I re-boot, it fails like I described above.
Ok, here are some more experiences I have had. My system had been running great, and boot ups were working perfect. I decided I wanted to add a 3rd internal hard drive for storage. I already had my C operating system drive, and a D storage drive. I bought a large Seagate for a 3rd F storage drive. My CD/RW is listed as my E drive. So, I power my system off, and turn off the switch on the back of the PSU. I then add my 3rd hard drive and hook it all up. I power on my system. It boots to the bios screen where you hit delete to enter the bios. I enter the bios and I see all three of my hard drives. I check to make sure my boot order is correct, and save and exit the bios. As it booting, this time it hangs for a longer time at the screen where you can enter the bios. I hit the delete key to enter the bios, but it once again hangs while it tries to list all the hardware. Finally I can get to the bios setup screen, and both my C drive and D drive are not recognized, but my new Seagate is. For the record, my C drive is connected on the #1 SATA connection, my D drive is on the #2 SATA connection, and my new Seagate drive is on the #3 SATA connection. So, I select optimized defaults, save, and exit the bios. I re-enter the bios just fine and in the normal timely fashion. Now all my hardware is recognized. I set up my RAM again and other settings, and save, exit, and my system boots perfect.
So, I go about a week of perfect boot ups and no problems. I decided to buy a new larger hard drive to replace my existing C operating system drive. My plan was to install the new drive, and simply restore from a current image made from my old hard drive. I get my new C drive installed, and plugged into the #1 SATA connection on the mobo just like before. Ok, same drill......I enter the bios, and all my drives are recognized. I set my boot order, save, and exit. AGAIN, when it gets to the bios screen where you hit delete to enter the bios.....it hangs for longer than usual. I know exactly what it's doing, so I hit delete. It lags again as it starts to list hardware. Again, when I get to the setup bios screen, my C drive, and D drive are not recognized, yet my F drive is......just like before. So, both the drives connected to the #1, and #2 SATA connections on the mobo are not seen in the bios, yet the hard drive on #3 is seen. I do the same thing again, which is load optimized defaults, save, exit, and re-enter the bios again just fine. All drives are seen, I set up my personal settings, and all is well again.
The last time it happened was when I connected my USB thumb drive. Same exact scenario. The thumb drive shows up, and my F drive with the C drive and D drive missing again.
Any ideas?? The system will run just great now the way it is. But, the second I stick my thumb drive in, or an external hard drive, my C and D drive will disappear on next boot. If I kept the thumb drive and external drive connected, and just loaded optimized defaults, then rebooted and loaded my personal setting, I would never have the boot problem again. It just doesn't like me disconnecting, and re-connecting hardware I guess.
About the only thing I can think of to try is connecting my C and D drive to different SATA connections. But, even if that worked, it wouldn't fix the problem.

K8N Neo2 Windows XP Boot problems

I've recently built a new machine based on the K8N Neo 2 & Athlon 64 3500 and am having intermittant problems during boot into Windows XP.
Basically the machine seems to hang just as it gets to the 'Windows XP' logo. The screen looks blank, but if you look very carefully the logo is displayed very faintly. I have tried connecting the startup disk to both SATA1 and SATA3 with the same results as at first I thought it may be some kind of driver problem. I didn't have to install any SATA drivers during the XP install which surprised me.
I have also run Memtest86 on the two sticks of 512Mb PC3200 Geil Ram which seemed to test OK.
Once running the machine is stable, its just annoying that it may take 2 or 3 tries to get it up and running.
Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
The full spec of the machine is as follows:
K8N Neo 2
Athlon 64 3500
Geil Value PC3200 512Mb x2
Maxtor Diamond Max 9 80Gb (Boot Disk)
Maxtor Diamond Max 10 200Gb
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600XT
Andi

I will not install the nForce IDE drivers on the (I guess soon) reinstall. I've read that the PS/2 keyboard also could be the badguy in this weird boot problem but I cant understand why and how the keyboard could add time to the bootup sequence only sometimes, I guess that it has something to do with the XP keyboard driver ??..
Anyone with any other tips is welcome. Other than this weird problem my system runs perfect. MSI Core Center now tells me that my CPU temp is 45% (CPU speed 1004) (Downloading stuff but not doing anything else), CPU speed is according to XP 1.79Ghz and I use the Cool 'n' Quiet function, On what temp should I start to become alarmed and is there some way to setup something in the bios to shut down or warn me when and if the CPU gets to hot ?..
Thanks for helping a new MSI user out

A VERY wierd booting problem: no dual boot nor boot from ide

in reading the title, you're probably thinking that i haven't even booted successfully at all. in fact, my setup is a raptor 74GB (sata), seagate ide 200GB, and a seagate sata 400GB, and a western digital ide 80GB, with the raptor being the primary drive to boot from in the bios. in a normal boot state, my computer boots from the raptor and with absolutely no problems. the problem i'm having is twofold and i think they are related: firstly, if i load the setup for windows xp on the the 80GB (it's for a customer of mine), i set in the bios that it should load from the 80GB before the raptor and then i restart. before any boot happens it says that the boot failed and then attempts to run a few other boot agents, a couple by nvidia and one by intel (swear to god there intel in there, i dont know what it is doing on a amd board). i dont have the exact error written down but i fail to load from the ide. also, i have wanted to run a dual boot windows xp/fedora core 3 x86_64 from 2 different partitions on my raptor. fedora installs fine and when it comes time for a boot loader to ask me whether i want windows xp or fedora, the screen never shows and windows loads. i did install fedora after windows so the issue shouldnt be there. i am not technically disinclined, very much the opposite however it bugs me that i can't do any of this. my bios is the latest 1.40, my motherboard is the k8n neo2 platinum, proc 3500+, ocz plat rev.2, if any of this information is at all relavent.

Quote from: JER101 on 12-February-05, 20:27:45
Changing the boot order in the bios dosn't create a boot sector. All it does is define the order the motherboard will look for boot sectors.
When ever youi install an OS it will create or modify a boot sector. You need to be aware of which disk it is modifying at the time.
When installing for dual booting you have to know if the second OS can recognise the boot sector created by the previous OS. Some do not and delete the previous and create a new one just for that OS.
I knew all that already, what i meant by changing the boot order was to allow the 80GB to be booted before the raptor, but if there's a dual boot on the raptor, clearly the bios wouldn't be able to detect that until it was time to boot. what I want to know is why when a boot sector is made for a dual boot or a boot sector is made for an ide hard drive, it doesnt go to the sata boot sector and in the case of the ide, it fails to boot completely.

Report: K8N Neo3-F Cool boot problem!!!!

Hi all,
I've got Cool boot problem on my new K8N Neo3-F. The power is often turned off suddenly just after I turned on the power switch. All components are shutted down while the power led blink. It's unable to turn off completely by pushing power switch for awhile. I usualy have to disconect the power cord then clear cmos and cool boot again.
This problem seem to occur more oftenly when using SATA HDD. Should it be attituted to a bug bios?

Something along what you already have on +3.3v/+5v but 20A or more on +12v (single +12v PSU model) .
But when the time comes to replace PSU it's wise to get one that has enough power that will serve the next build or upgrade also .
Not leaving you again in the same situation you are now one more time down the line .
Note that HD's are notirious power eaters .They all may have nice numbers from the manufacturers for write/read consumption
but it's not many that specifies spinup consumption which always are altleast 2-3 times the amount of read/write power demands.
Tagan 2power/2force is nice and is applicable to both 20/24 pins systems and has the ability to run the +12v line as one combined or dual .
They also come in different sizes (max wattage) .

K7N2 Delta-L: Strange cold boot problem & solution

My K7N2 Delta-L has a problem cold booting when the vcore is set in the bios at 1.65v of higher. After a cold boot, you get a blank black screen. I noticed that even if you run at default speeds but set the vcore to 1.65v of higher the problem still occurs. There is no problem rebooting however.
I found the following solutions:
1. After you power up and get a blank, hit the reset button.
2. Don't unplug your PC. My PC is connected to a AVR and after I power down the PC I usually turn the AVR off. If i do this, than the computer will have a booting problem if I try to boot it up 30 minutes later or so. Now if I don't unplug it/power off the AVR than everything is fine.
I don't understand why it acts the way it does though.
Does anyone know of any other solutions?

Have you cleared the cmos. If you do be sure you have the power turned off don't move the cmos jumper with the power on.
I found that turning off power at power supply and unpluging, than turning on the computer the fans will spin just a little this drains all the power. Clear cmos 2-3 than return to
1-2 position.
Than plug the power back in and turn it back on, than try the computer again.

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