Hi again,
Annoying problem here, maybe someone can shed some light..
When I boot XP from regular IDE drive:
- Bios POST finishes
- XP goes directly into the graphical part of booting
All good. Then, when I boot the same image from an USB stick:
- Bios POST finishes
- Bios displays "verifying DMA pool, updating ESCD.. success" for 10 seconds
- XP bootprocess displays the black/white progress bar for 20-30 seconds
- XP goes into graphical part of booting
This happens whether i boot XP or a custom XPE image. If I understand correctly, the bios is updating its ESCD, followed by XP re-detecting and overwriting it during the "text mode" progress bar. Then, it all happens again on the next boot, which leads to horrible boot times.
The goal here is to stop either the bios or XP from screwing with the ESCD.
The mainboard is a MSI K8MM-V board with the latest bios (I've also tried some old ones). I can't find any options for disabling ESCD refresh/updating NVRAM/PnP options or anything seemingly relevant. This is my fifth mainboard in the quest for the perfect carputer, so I'd like to make it work
.. So, how do I force XP to stop overwriting the bios' ESCD settings? I've tried the fastdetect/nodetect/pcilock boot params, but no luck there.
.. And why the heck does this only happen when booting from USB, not IDE?
