I was using Asus Maximus II Formula motherboard (which is a P45 chipset board) with two OSs XP Pro and Vista Ultimate 32 on separate HDDs . Had to dispose off the board for some reasons and then installed another Asus board with G35 chipset (a downgrade from P45 to G35). Now everything seems to work fine and XP Pro and VISTA boots with out issues. The only problem is that after the initial start-up screen with ASUS logo and devices info the system waits too long to get into the OS selection menu. I am quite clueless at this point what to do in order to get rid of this delay. Any help in this regard will be highly appreciated.
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The “BIOS” swallowed 1gb of your ram. What the hell does that even mean?

The BIOS uses the upper level of the 4GB address space for its own functions, which means it can’t also be used as RAM. Some systems get round this with a technique called remapping; but many do not. In consequence, up to 1GB of your 4GB RAM may be wasted. The problem only occurs if you fit 4GB.

Tim

The example reg keys in the thread here:

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=444831

show the entries you need to look at – you need to match the hardware IDs to your actual hardware of course.

I used an existing storage controller entry as a guide to get the various parameters right.

Tim

It is great information. Bu I am good at this but I don’t understand this “Finally, I manually made the changes pretty much as in the reg file used to migrate XP to a new storage controller, though what I actually did was to pattern the changes on an existing storage controller entry in the working Vista registry.” How did you find related reg keys? search with hardware ids? or… thanks

Thanks… I’m a DIY guy without very much experience & not enough sense to leave well enough alone. I’ve been very frustrated with my attempts to upgrade my motherboard, and your solution for the XP OS saved me another sleepless night.

Thanks again!

If the software cannot verify this number, it can cause the system to reboot or do all sorts of things. Especially security related network software.

Dell and other OEM’s have a download area with small programs, that will update the Asset Tag.
And some Motherboards like Dell’s will come with a Bootable CD with this software already on it.

Just some more to look out for, when changing a Motherboard in a system.

Mike

Tim

The old one had a ich7r while the new one is a ich9r.

When booting I get a flash of the “Inaccessible boot device” and it goes into an endless boot sequence.

I made a slitstream disk that allows me to boot into a repair or installation/repair mode that can see my RAID0 drives.

I tried the install/repair but after completing , it goes back to the blue flash error again.

I can get into a repair console and see my drives/windows installation but am not sure what to do to fix this.

Thanks!