XP won't boot-too many card readers

[DuncanHynes]

I have an Asus P5N32 SLI SE board Nforce4 northbridge. With the internal card reader (on a USB 2.0 header) AND the HP 8250 printer with its own built in card reader XP will not boot! Eliminate one or the other and it's fine. What can I do in the BIOS if anything to fix this? I have the original BIOS (7/6/2006 or so) and haven't upgraded that yet as of yet there was no need and at the time ppl had problems with the newer versions. Performance within XP is great/fine/no problems. Right now I have the internal card reader unplugged from the board. Many thanks :roll: [/b]

 

[DuncanHynes]

yes, if I let xp boot without the printer, then plug it in it's ok...I'd have to see again what the error was when it's in post...it basicly sees each card slot as a seperate drive and freaks out. Do I need to manually assign the internal card reader an IRQ?

 

[DuncanHynes]

Ok here is the exact play by play if I plug in my printer with the built in card reader. (Note, with just the internal card reader BIOS shows each slot as a drive 01,02,03,04...but the printer only is seen as one drive even though it's a 4 slot reader).

Press power button...2GB tested, etc...Detecting USB devices 1 keyboard, 1 mouse, 5 'storage devices'
Auto-Detecting USB Mass Storage devices
Device #01: IT HANGS RIGHT HERE FOR 2 FULL MINUTES THEN GOES
00: Devices found and configured THEN XP LOADS AND EVERYTHING WORKS!

weeeeeird. I saw in the BIOS you can emulate each slot as auto or a floppy or FDD forced. FDD and hard drive emulate don't work as when it goes past certain stages it asks for a disk or press a key. I disabled stupid stuff like Com1 and Parrell and Serial ports. Only thing I can do in BIOS is assign an IRQ to a Legacy device. Windows is using ISA/IRQs 0, 6, 8, 9, 13,14,15. and a bunch of other PCI virtual IRQ I guess. So what gives...it loads (I never waited 2min before but that's weird).