Has anyone else seen their A8N-SLI quit POST-ing? It will hang at detecting IDE drives and it will hang upon the initial XP screen. The XP startup screen is barely visible. I'm running beta BIOS 1003.005.
I finally got into XP by enabling SMART HD monitoring. At least, that's the last thing I changed before it let me in. I had never had it enabled before. I had reset all settings in the BIOS to the default settings and nothing. I had also removed all devices but the boot drive with the same results.
I had ordered the mobo from ZipZoomFly before Christmas and paid $259 for it. I called last night for an RMA and saw online that the board was now $199. I ordered a new board and told the lady I want to return the old one. She said that was faster than waiting the 7-10 days for the RMA.
So, now I'm waiting for the new mobo to see if it works OK. A proper system burn-in will be in order this time around!
I finally got into XP by enabling SMART HD monitoring. At least, that's the last thing I changed before it let me in. I had never had it enabled before. I had reset all settings in the BIOS to the default settings and nothing. I had also removed all devices but the boot drive with the same results.
I had ordered the mobo from ZipZoomFly before Christmas and paid $259 for it. I called last night for an RMA and saw online that the board was now $199. I ordered a new board and told the lady I want to return the old one. She said that was faster than waiting the 7-10 days for the RMA.
So, now I'm waiting for the new mobo to see if it works OK. A proper system burn-in will be in order this time around!