madmonkeymayhem Posted December 28, 2004 Posted December 28, 2004 Can someone tell me what the Nvidia boot agent is? During the boot sequence I get the following error in about 1 in 20 cases: NVIDIA Boot Agent Boot Device Failure, Insert System Boot disk and hit enter... If I reboot it will load up fine, so its not a major problem. I'd just like to know if it's something I can correct without too much agressive action... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robo989 Posted December 28, 2004 Posted December 28, 2004 Does it appear before the bios screen, or after devices and IRQ table is displayed but before the XP boot screen? If its the first case then its most likely your timings are too tight on the ramnot enough volts or a similar ram problem? lower the fsb? You might as well try it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmonkeymayhem Posted December 29, 2004 Posted December 29, 2004 It happens during the latter period you describe. I'm using the default BIOS settings aside from the FSB speed, but it's not overclocked.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted December 29, 2004 Posted December 29, 2004 make sure RTM LAN Boot ROM is disabled and it should go away. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daddy469 Posted December 30, 2004 Posted December 30, 2004 Yeah - what AG said. That is for PXE (pre-boot execution environment) Super handy if you happen to have a M$ RIS server on your network.... Daddy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmonkeymayhem Posted December 31, 2004 Posted December 31, 2004 Erm...this is already disabled in my BIOS..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGone Posted December 31, 2004 Posted December 31, 2004 a little nvidia agenting from google... RGone... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmonkeymayhem Posted January 1, 2005 Posted January 1, 2005 Thanks Rgone. My BIOS is set to boot from my SCSI device and the CDROM only, so I dont think that's the problem. Judging from the solutions in the other forum (XP Repair, reinstall etc), I think I'll leave it alone and just accept it as another one of the joys of this mobo!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmonkeymayhem Posted January 6, 2005 Posted January 6, 2005 Ok, I think I may have found the cause of this problem, but it's left me with more questions rather than answers! I double checked my BIOS and found my boot order set as follows: Boot 1st: SCSI (SCSI type set to SATA in later BIOS setting) Boot 2nd: Floppy Boot 3rd: CDROM Boot 4th: HDD0 I also found that 'Boot other device' was also enabled. I'm thinking that this is where the LAN boot is coming from, so I have disabled it for now to see what happens. I also decided that this boot sequence was a bit messy (left over from my earlier struggle to get my system to boot from the SATA drive) so I set Boot 4th to 'none' (thinking that I didnt need this now that my emergency spare IDE drive used during aforementioned SATA boot struggle is no longer connected) and swapped the SCSI and CDROM boot order. As soon as I rebooted the machine, it came up with Disk Boot Failure, which would only go away when I set Boot 4th back to HDD0. Now the questions... I guess this means my SATA drive is recognised as HDD0 rather than SCSI. Why is this? If the SCSI setting is not for booting off a SATA drive, what is it for? And why is it necessary to specify the SCSI type later in the BIOS? Would it make any difference if this was set to something other than SATA? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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