I am starting a new project of re-wiring everything in my case, and I want to make all the cables myself for fun. Has anyone used these connectors before? To me it looks like you don't need a crimping tool, you just push a section of bare wire into the slots. I can't find any information on...
Alright, I feel pretty stupid now.....Plug and Play OS was disabled in the BIOS!!!! Still a little unsure why this would be set to disabled by default but oh well, problem solved. Thanks for your help anyway.
First off thanks for your suggestions.
Just to make sure I installed the chipset drivers again from Intel's site, unfortunately no change in boot time. I also tried disconnecting every USB device, my floppy drive, and took my sound card and one of my video cards out. No change.
I have...
I just built a new computer (will list items below) and installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 pro, and I have run into a rather strange problem. Every time I boot up the machine it gets to the first windows screen where it says "Starting Windows" and has the animated windows logo in the middle...