I changed some thing with my hard-disk motherboard connectors.
To start with this is how my setup looked like:
So I changed it to:
This I did because I saw that the springer on my hard-disk was set to CS so I changed it to Master and switched the motherboard IDE1 to hard-disk and IDE2 to DVD-ROM, it used to be the other way around.
Now I can clearly see a big differences of the hard-disk performance. On some games the picture would freeze for some seconds because the hard-disk was reading extremely during gameplay, now this is not occurring any more.
To say my setup was wrong connected at first so now it seemed fixed.
But now I get the problem at startup. When turn on my comp it goes into auto detecting mode to find the hard-disk and DVD-ROM. This procedure takes 30 seconds before continuing loading WIN XP. I looked at my BIOS and everything seemed right I also loaded the optimal settings.
How do I fix the boot. Do I need to do a WIN repair or is there a easier way?
To start with this is how my setup looked like:
Primary Master (DVD-ROM) IDE1
Secondary Slave (-)
Secondary Master (-)
Secondary Slave (Hard-disk) Springer set to CS IDE2 "connected with grey cable to hard-disk"
So I changed it to:
Primary Master (Hard-disk) Springer set to Master IDE1 "connected with black cable to hard-disk"
Secondary Slave (-)
Secondary Master (DVD-ROM) IDE2
Secondary Slave (-)
This I did because I saw that the springer on my hard-disk was set to CS so I changed it to Master and switched the motherboard IDE1 to hard-disk and IDE2 to DVD-ROM, it used to be the other way around.
Now I can clearly see a big differences of the hard-disk performance. On some games the picture would freeze for some seconds because the hard-disk was reading extremely during gameplay, now this is not occurring any more.
To say my setup was wrong connected at first so now it seemed fixed.
But now I get the problem at startup. When turn on my comp it goes into auto detecting mode to find the hard-disk and DVD-ROM. This procedure takes 30 seconds before continuing loading WIN XP. I looked at my BIOS and everything seemed right I also loaded the optimal settings.
How do I fix the boot. Do I need to do a WIN repair or is there a easier way?
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