Re: Boot sequence halts at F1
- From: Twanny <Evenstar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 03:35:10 -0700
The BIOS on this motherboard has the following sections:
MAIN - ADVANCED - SECURITY - POWER - BOOT - EXIT
I have not located any hardware monitoring anywhere .
Furthermore, this "F1" stop appears whenever the machine is rebooted, even
after a day's work (shouldn't the fan(s) spin at a normal temperature then?)
Unfortunately this mainboard does not have the "Halt on No Errors" option,
as I have stated in my post.
Even though I have Flashed the BIOS, I am tempted to resort to "Load Setup
Defaults" and see what happens. Anyway, thanks again for your time.
"Paul" wrote:
Twanny wrote:.
Fault Description: Boot sequence halts at F1
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Intel Motherboard model D815EEA P3 Socket 370
Operating System: Windows XP SP3
Boot-up halts on first screen with message to "press F1 to continue".
After invoking F1, everything goes well, but his happens everytime the
system boots.
I have scoured the BIOS to identify any settings to disable this: it has none.
I have had other motherboards bios with instructions to "Halt on all errors,
keyboard etc., but this model hasn't.
Checked Intel's site for support and downloaded the Flash Bios which was
carried out successfully, but still the F1 halting comes up.
Doubled checked connections and even replaced, keyboard, mouse Ram modules,
power chord and even Power supply, without any success.
Appreciate any comments on this. Thanks
I have a motherboard that does something similar. It is not
an Intel branded board.
What happens is, there is a fan connected to one of the
fan headers. At powerup, when the room is cold, the fan
spins at slightly less than 1800RPM. The BIOS on that machine,
is not capable of monitoring a fan, at less than 1800RPM.
(The hardware is capable, but the BIOS doesn't set it up
right.) The monitor reads the fan as spinning at 0 RPM,
even though physically it is spinning at 1750RPM or so. So the
BIOS stops and requests the user to "press F1".
By the time I get into the BIOS, and move to the hardware
monitor page, by that time the fan is spinning at slightly
more than 1800RPM. So I cannot catch it with the bad reading.
The hardware monitor chip has fan RPM readings, temperatures, and
also voltage readings. It could be anything like that, which
causes the error.
A BIOS setting like "Halt on No Errors", is one way to fix it.
If your BIOS has that option.
Some BIOSes, allow you to place the cursor over a monitored
value, and then toggle whether that value is monitored or
not. But not all BIOSes support making changes to the behavior
of the hardware monitor screen. Have a check in there anyway.
At least the CPU fan should be monitored, as the BIOS may
shut off the computer, if a fan speed of zero is detected
on the CPU fan. So the CPU fan is treated a little bit
different than the other (chassis or power) fan headers.
Paul
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