Solved: Re: [lug] computer hangs at boot: Checking NVRAM

[Michael Hirsch]

Thanks everyone for the help. It was the CMOS. I don't know the setting,
they all looked okay when I went through them. but after I did a reset It
booted.

I tried "reset to factory defaults" but that didn't solve the problem. I had
to unhook the poser supply and move the jumper. After that, it got through
POST quickly.

Amusingly, after the reset it started to boot into Fedora Core 2. This is
only amusing if you realize that I run Mandriva and never installed FC2 on
this system. I saw grub prompt me for FC2 and thought "WTF?"

Then I realized that my second HD came from a FC2 box, and the reset changed
the drive boot order. A quick reset of the boot order made Mandriva come up.

Thanks again for the suggestions,

Michael

On 9/22/05, D. Stimits <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Michael Hirsch wrote:
> > When I boot my computer it hangs for about 5 minutes during the POST
> > test displaying "Checking NVRAM". I've got an ATI bios, Tyan S2885
> > motherboard with dual opterons. It started doing this within the last
> week.
> >
> > If I leave it long enough it seems to boot okay, but I'd like to get
> > past it a little quicker.
> >
> > Any suggestions are welcome.
>
> I'd also suggest cmos has lost a setting...I fixed a similar problem for
> someone a couple of weeks back, but it was caused by a power outage with
> no UPS...I was surprised to find it had juggled some cmos settings.
> Normally I'd suggest the battery too, and until then did not think a
> cmos with a good battery would ever change its own settings. You could
> just go into your cmos setting and verify all your settings for sanity,
> looking for anything that might be unusual.
>
> D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
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