First post, by majestyk
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Here´s some strange issue I wasn´t able to fix so far.
While testing my FIC PA-2011 mainboard (VIA Apollo VP2 chipset, AWARD BIOS 113ca14) I found that in about 50% of the cases when I boot DOS from a floppy the startup will hang with a blinking cursor like this:
in the remaining 50% the cursor will go down two lines and the full screen DOS prompt will appear.
When I hit any key while the startup process hangs the DOS-prompt will appear and show the key I pressed just as if the system had already completed startup and was running in the background. For example after hitting "A" I get "A:\>A" after hitting "enter" I get
"A:\>"
"A:\>"
There´s an older AMI BIOS for this board (626cc15) where the issue won´t happen. It´s also independant of: CPU, graphics card, RAM, floppy drive, floppy, floppy cable, BIOS settings, FSB.
When I boot DOS from a harddrive the issue will also be absent.
I´d love to run the AWARD BIOS because it´s newer, detects more recent CPUs correctly and because with the AMI BIOS benchmarks are horrible.
I wonder In any of you have had this or a similar issue...
