First post, by JeffeSilva
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Hello it's me more one time.
I have one PCChips M571 motherboard that was kept for about a year. I don't use this one instead I prefer the MLR598 because of the CMI8738 onboard chip. But this motherboard always worked without any problem, until today I needed it. I turned it on, and almost everything is working fine, except that when it's about to start the system, it's stay trapped in the "boot screen". I set an HDD with MS-DOS, the system even recognizes the disk, but it only stays like this:
Loading Boot Record from IDE-0..OK
Starting MS-DOS...
and nothing more, and stay indeterminable in this screen...
I even waited for more than 5 minutes.
I have tried lot of stuffs like: 1 - Clear the CMOS, well I think this CMOS is always clean when the machine is off because there's no battery for this one. Even so, I did a CMOS clear procedure. 2 - Check HDD cables. But they are the same cables and HDD I use on my MLR598. There's only one detail that always call me attention and I don't know if this have to do with the issue. The MLR598, has no pin in the middle in the IDE connector, that is, while the M571 has all the pins. For what I remember, I never had this problem before with this board, this is the first time I see the problem, independently of the number of pins in the IDE connector. 3 - I test to boot only from the floppy, without and HDD just for a test. I inserted a diskette with MS-DOS 6.22 set up and got the same problem again. For the floppy test I removed the HDD. 4 - I can Enter in the BIOS normally and had observed that no issues are found, like bad latency, delays, crashes, freeze, etc. Everything is working nice, at least is what it shows. 5 - This motherboard has many jumpers that you can set for specific memory type, CPU, as well as frequency and etc. I always set these jumpers carefully by checking the manual and check many times too before operating the computer.
Has anyone here ever had a problem like this or knows how to solve this issue?