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The topic may be kinda beaten to death, but after a great amount of searching, I've found no clear answer as to why boards with P35/G33/etc. chipsets exhibit this behavior. A lot of people say it's due to overclocks, some say it's normal but offer no technical explanation of it, and pretty much all of it seems to be speculation.
I recently acquired an Intel DG33FB along with an E5200. When I got it, it had an older BIOS which would POST normally. After updating to the latest version to fix some other bugs, now it double boots every time, both from cold and on reboots. Everything is running at stock settings, so it's not to do with overclocking. If it's a normal, intended behavior, why is it, then, that it didn't happen on an older BIOS?
Does anyone else have an Intel-branded board that does this? I can find plenty of reports about Abit and other 'enthusiast' brands, but nary a word about the real Intel boards.
Then that just leaves my other question: Was there ever an official word explaining the behavior? As in, straight from the mouth of an Intel tech or the like?
This is all just out of curiosity, I'm not particularly bothered by the issue, but being that this is the first time I've ever encountered such a thing, I'd like to know exactly why it acts so differently from every other piece of computer hardware made in the last 15 or so years.
I recently acquired an Intel DG33FB along with an E5200. When I got it, it had an older BIOS which would POST normally. After updating to the latest version to fix some other bugs, now it double boots every time, both from cold and on reboots. Everything is running at stock settings, so it's not to do with overclocking. If it's a normal, intended behavior, why is it, then, that it didn't happen on an older BIOS?
Does anyone else have an Intel-branded board that does this? I can find plenty of reports about Abit and other 'enthusiast' brands, but nary a word about the real Intel boards.
Then that just leaves my other question: Was there ever an official word explaining the behavior? As in, straight from the mouth of an Intel tech or the like?
This is all just out of curiosity, I'm not particularly bothered by the issue, but being that this is the first time I've ever encountered such a thing, I'd like to know exactly why it acts so differently from every other piece of computer hardware made in the last 15 or so years.