I recently purchased this board and i've had it running a few days then i experienced an issue. I create a new active partition for a linux install. I rebooted and received a cmos checksum error, then cmos was reset. I had to go into the bios and manually activate all my drives as they were unactivated.
So here is where the issue is. Booting takes takes a long time. I had to boot to the Vista DVD to mark Vista partition active again. Booting to a Vista DVD takes about 30 minutes to get to first welcome screen. Another 10 minutes to complete marking the partition active. Now i've rebooted again and the Vista install i have looks like it's going to take an hour to boot to it.
I've had issues from day one with the bios, sometimes the text is scrambled so i'm suspecting the CMOS chip might be faulty. Any suggestions? Could i be missinf something in the bios? Otherwise i'll need to RMA today.
So here is where the issue is. Booting takes takes a long time. I had to boot to the Vista DVD to mark Vista partition active again. Booting to a Vista DVD takes about 30 minutes to get to first welcome screen. Another 10 minutes to complete marking the partition active. Now i've rebooted again and the Vista install i have looks like it's going to take an hour to boot to it.
I've had issues from day one with the bios, sometimes the text is scrambled so i'm suspecting the CMOS chip might be faulty. Any suggestions? Could i be missinf something in the bios? Otherwise i'll need to RMA today.