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    ASUS G1: Boot Up Weird

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Dyingduck, Feb 16, 2007.

  1. Dyingduck

    Dyingduck Notebook Consultant

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    For some reasons (I do not know what I did), but whenever I boot up my ASUS g1, it keeps loading "Gigabet Ethernet Controller" during the pre-window state...

    What is this?
    How do I get rid of it?
    It never happens to me before...

    Please, help. Thanks.
     
    Dyingduck, Feb 16, 2007
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Either you reset to BIOS to User Defaults, or because of some other cause the BIOS reset itself.

    Go into BIOS, navigate to the last (or next to last, I don't remember) page on the right, and select Reset to manufacturer defaults.

    That should take care of your problem.

    Edit: To understand what is happenning: the User Defaults (don't ask me why this name) enable booting from the LAN interface during POST. They might also slow down the computer -- it seems to me they're related in some way to the "safe defaults" in desktop BIOSes, whereas the Manufacturer Defaults correspond to the "optimized defaults" in desktop BIOSes.
     
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    Thanks, that sounds good. I shall try it, right now.
     
    Dyingduck, Feb 16, 2007
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    I assume my solution worked. :)
     
    E.B.E., Feb 16, 2007
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    Either that or it fried his mobo and he can't respond ;)
     
    zerowind, Feb 17, 2007
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    Well, my mobo did gets terribly fried but that is a long story...after I recovered it by the backup in the harddrive (even the recovery disk does not work), it shows up...I did what you have said...and now, instead of "loading in that screen," it simply just pops up for 1-1.25 seconds then window begins to load...

    Very strange...any take on this, mates?
     
    Dyingduck, Feb 17, 2007
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