I have read a lot of stuff on windows 2000 and RAID issues, computer not booting etc. The problem I'm having doesn't seem the same. I boot up one time, from a dead power-off, windows boots like normal (windows 2000 that is), perfectly...and quickly. BUT...if I do a cold reboot via the OS or the reset switch the computer slows waaaayyy down on boot up. It's completely noticeable and I'm convinced it decreases my stability. If I shut the PC down the speed comes back and voila...wtf is the problem here? I'm running a 20gig IBM Deskstar 75GXP. I've tried numerous versions of BIOSes, tweaked all settings I could, have newest VIA drivers, service pack 2, nothing changes...any other suggestions? I'm not sure if it's the hard drive or not but I put it on standard IDE controller and I have no problems with it at all. Help people, be my savior.
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Iwill KK266-R hard drive issues
- Thread starter goretusk
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So you have a raid mobo and you are only runing 1 harddrive? I would try disabling the raid... Im guessing that when you boot up cold the mobo is smart enough to realize there is only 1 harddrive, and so it doesnt bother loading the raid controler, and when you reboot its not smart enough and boots the raid controler even though you have only 1 harddrive. Its very typicle for a raid controler to add 1+ minuts to load times. And as for the stabability issue, I'm guessing becuase it thinks your runing raid when your not. Hopefully some sort of jumper will disable your raid or posibly in the bios. I'm not sure as I've never owned a mobo with on board raid.
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Well, the HD was on the RAID controller, it's always enabled...I know that much. I was thinking there was some kind of cache, memory or something that once it was filled it was slower, and it wasn't getting purged at reboot...but I have no clue what that would be. What I do know is that the RAID controller is always enabled and always finds the drive...currently I'm running on the standard controller. I'm convinced that the controller just doesn't like one single HD? I stilll need more feedback from others, prefereably someone that has had or has heard of this problem?
Mine does a similar thing. It is not a RAID problem, as I am running all SCSI and no IDE components. Sometimes it takes forever to boot, other times it boots quickly but starts slowing down after 20-30 minutes or after a large amount of disk access. I haven't figured it out yet, this is a fresh install of Win98 and it even does it in safe mode. I did solve some problems by swapping my PS out (enermax 351 replaced a 451) and having the HD's spin up in a staggered sequence. But it still does it....
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Well, the fact still remains that when I plug the HD into the standard ATA100 controller, the VIA controller, it runs perfectly fine....of course then my CDR doesn't function properly. Probably because of lack of IDE bus bandwidth to the poor thing. (if that is possible). I even tried making the disk a 1 disk RAID array, still no go....I have no clue what to do with this thing...I mean, maybe it's possible that when I get two HDs and RAID them then it will not do it anymore...but that's an expensive test. ARGH!! someone must be able to help poor me.
If you arent running a stripe or mirror, then dont use the raid controller. Your CD should work without any probs too. Maybe try switching the CD to the secondary IDE. I've had problems in the past with incompatabilities between a HD and CD on the same controller.
...If it's on the secondary IDE it "shouldn't" have any problems, what kind of CD-R do you have? If buffer underrun is the reason you're burning coasters, disable DMA for your CD-R that should help, you also might try a different bios version or different 4-in-1's. Goodluck!
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