Sooo slooow boot up Vista Bugs and Problems Discuss Sooo slooow boot up in the Windows Vista forums; Ea to his own about OC'g. but OC'g has been and always will be a nice way to, VOID all warranty on Products. and If you're having ...

[Snuffy]

Ea to his own about OC'g. but OC'g has been and always will be a nice way to, VOID all warranty on Products. and If you're having problems. why not "reset all to default speeds" and see what happens. Never hurts to try.

But it is your equipment and your the BOSS, but when you ask questions, and get answers it also is your decision to or not to do...

Good luck.Snuffy

[felix8406]

Well, I doubt this will help, but it won't hurt either. I received this articale from PCWorld titled Eight Tips for a Faster Hard Drive

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,12...l?tk=nl_sbxcol

[Seansmit17]

i did disalbe my cpu overclock but again.. no diffrence..

Ill have a read of that in a bit felix.. thanks

[Snuffy]

I would flash the BIOS back to what you were using..or even 1 set lower.
since it seems to be giving bad info..on your readings.
I would schedule on boot a disk check...and fix errors
then run a full memory check..

since that is/was also a XP problem... I am sure Vista only makes it worse..
but a freeze on boot - could be more than on possible..
corrupt registery, bad data ( overclocking can cause miswrites an errors), or crosslinked files, memory chips if overclocked often (burp) on transferring data, bad spots in the HD... and since it was two different OS, i'd not think it was the OS..
exactly which mobo do you have....

[Seansmit17]

cant go back to older bios... well thats what the latest bios says.. once ive flashed to it i cant go back to older one... dunno y tho and i dont want to try it!!

[Snuffy]

You can always go back to the older BIOS if needed... and many times the newer BIOS is CRAP - 100% wrong... and kills the whole system... but any way... Reflash the BIOS to the Version you are using....
shutdown... wait 2 min then restart.... see if the BIOS reads out the same..
then again I'd say:
schedule on boot a disk check...and fix errors - complete scan (it might also take some time)
then run a full memory check..
then report the finding on the above mentioned ..
since you will not do the backup bios then we can continure at least to the next step...
1. You will not do
2. full disk scan with repair
3. full memory scan...
4. after you do 1 - 3...

[Seansmit17]

Snuffy DONT ARGUE with me.. here is what it says on the asus website for the bios that i last updated to:

P5B Release BIOS 1102
**Please update AsusUpdate to V7.09.02 or later prior making this update.**
**This BIOS does not support roll back to earlier BIOS**

Oh look it says i cant roll back.. just like I said..

I have done diskcheck and with the seatools from seagate.. no errors i did a windows check disk no erros, i did a memory diagnostic.. no errors... ive done all this already many MANY times in the past and yesterday as well.. i do these cheks once a month to make sure there are no problems that are sneaking up on me.. there is no hardware error or prblems that are being detected anyway

[felix8406]

One thing about BIOS upgrade, users have to careful and not go wild messing with upgrades or downgrades. As opposed to upgrading software, upgrading the BIOS could be a disaster if something happens to go wrong.

Could the issue be the motherboard itself? It could have a flaw that causes it to have issues loading components. The way you described the issue, I would interpret it, as I sai on previous post, to be a hardware issue.

[Seansmit17]

well i could always send the mobo back as a RMA and get a replacement if need be.. or get another mobo to the same value of this one but that would leave me with no pc for a few days soooo im not sure i want to lol