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p4c800-e deluxe slow boot
- Thread starter cd2k
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- Jun 25, 2003
What part takes the longest to get past? Your RAID is probably whats slowing that part of the boot sequence down. You could try disabling your RAID controller in the BIOS and see how quick it takes to get to the NTLDR missing screen. That would show if its the RAID or not.
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- Aug 29, 2002
Was going to suggest exactly the same.
I presume you have nothing attached to the Promise SATA's or IDE sockets, and are using the ICHR5 jobbie for your RAID0.
Whip into the BIOS and disable the Promise controller, and see how that improves things.
There could also be other things within BIOS that you may have enabled which you do not need (other drives set to auto, serial/com ports, etc)
Waiting to hear back.
I presume you have nothing attached to the Promise SATA's or IDE sockets, and are using the ICHR5 jobbie for your RAID0.
Whip into the BIOS and disable the Promise controller, and see how that improves things.
There could also be other things within BIOS that you may have enabled which you do not need (other drives set to auto, serial/com ports, etc)
Waiting to hear back.
Run some up to date antivirus programs.
Actually, what you are reporting is not exactily unusual or unreasonable.
And as said above, RAID takes quite a bit of additional time to load. An acquaintance with RAID 1 reports 42 seconds from switch on to fully loaded.
Actually, what you are reporting is not exactily unusual or unreasonable.
And as said above, RAID takes quite a bit of additional time to load. An acquaintance with RAID 1 reports 42 seconds from switch on to fully loaded.
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I know the Promise will initialize TONS faster with just PATA drives on it. Adding SATA drives on the Promise seems to really slow down the initialization. With 2 PATA Maxtors running in "IDE" mode on the Promise, mine is fairly quick to boot (SATA drives are on the Intel ICH5R). Shutting down is another story (Norton NAV is the culprit, I'm sure)... 
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do you have an single ide drive that is configured as a slave? or multiple drives that are both configured as master? a friend of mine had that problem.
