I´ve already built four rigs containing mobo ECS nForce3 A-939,
two with P-ATA HD, two with Samsung S-ATA HD.
The rigs with S-ATA HDs came up with an interesting "feature" during and after the WinXP installation:
After the two BIOS screens appearing it takes 30 seconds until the Windows loading screen shows up.
Absolutely no HD activity during this pause.
No further problems. Performance, frequencies, voltages -> OK
Well, after veryfying (100% sure) that it cannot be an issue due any other problem (in coop with ECS Tech Support),
I want to mod my BIOS to get rid of this error.
ECS nForce3 A-939
BIOS Type: Award
Award BIOS Type: Phoenix - Award WorkstationBIOS v6.00PG
Award BIOS Message: Nforce3-A939 Ver 1.0D 12/27/2005
System BIOS Date: 12/27/05
SAMSUNG SP2504C:
484521 Cylinders
16 Heads
63 Sectors/Track, 554 Bytes/Sector
LBA Sectors: 488397168
Data for the other Samsung (200GB) SATA not available at this time.
Could post it later (friend´s PC).
CPU: AMD Athlon64 3700+ SanDiego ADA3700KA5CF
Even killing the HD content with Active@KillDisk & start sectors with s0kill.exe didn´t help.
Plus - yeah - disabling onboard LAN has no effect on the problem.
I´m willing to use any helpful hint & software.
Unfort. I´m new to BIOS mods, but I´d call myself a "pro" and have 100% motivation to get into it.
Here´s what MODBIN.exe read out of the original BIOS-bin dated 2005/12/27 in the section "Drive Table", if this is helpful:
Looks weird to me, but I´ll be patient.
Thanks for your help!
:P.S.: German language topic @ECS: http://194.122.91.123/deutsch/viewtopic.php?p=1248#1248