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How come everytime I boot up it takes the time to detect the IDE drives? Shouldn't it just do that once and like save it?? The detection is set to auto, and if I change it to anything else it won't find my hard drive and won't boot up. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I had the boot order Floppy > Hard drive > CD-rom. But then I would need boot disk, then s switch to Cd-Rom first, and now it will say to boot from CD press any key, and then it owuld go . . . . and then boot right up. But that's the only way it will boot up to windows on the computer currently.

It's not a SATA Drive, just a typical Western Digital 160gig Hard drive...

Well if I set up to boot from hard disk it will say boot error, insert disk to boot from disk. And then I do and it will boot from hard drive. But it seems as if the drive is using the disk as a cruth to give it a boost or something??

I guess that's the problem then, it doesn't save it. It's a giga-byte GA-K8U-939 motherboard with 4400+ AMD Dual Core processor

But that's the problem.... It is under auto detect....

How come I need my boot up disk EVERYTIME I start my computer or else it won't boot?? I just installed a new motherboard and processor into it and reinstalled Windows.. Are there any solutions to this??

Okay, before the computer gets to the actual loading of windows. (You know where like it shows specs for video card and processor and stuff.) Well EVERYTIME I load up my computer, it's always detecting the IDE drives and it's very time consuming. Is there any way to get around this?? I mean I...

How come I need my boot up disk EVERYTIME I start my computer or else it won't boot?? I just installed a new motherboard and processor into it and reinstalled Windows.. Are there any solutions to this??

Okay, I had an eMachine computer, and I decided that I wanted to upgrade my motherboard and Processor. So I replaced them. I know have a 4400+ Dual core AMD processor (socket 939). Now I know my motherboard and processor are compatible with each other. (Both socket 939) And before people told me...

Alright, thanks a lot for you help.

I don't have windows though, so I'm like screwed unlil I buy it??

I don't have a formatte drive, it has to be one? I can't just replace an old mobo??

No dice.

Yeah both are plugged in.