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Dfi Ultra-d Boot Problems

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jimgeagea

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Hi,
i just finished installing my new system:

DFI lan party Ultra-D
AMD X2 4800
XFX 7800GTX OC
OCZ PLATINUM 2*1GB
Creative X_FI FATAL1TY
2*Hitachi T7K250 250gb SATA2
Plextor PX-716SA SATA DVD WRITER
NEC DVD COMBO IDE


i installed windows XP 32bit, when i keep one SATA HDD, i am having a fast windows load boot screen(the black screen with blue points moving), but when i plug in any other SATA device i am having a real slow boot, the blue bar is repeating around 8-9 times VS 0.25 times when one SATA driver is connected.

What is the problem? And how can i fix it?
Thank you
 
give your computer to me! I will send you back something that will boot up real fast lol.


When you plug in more then one do you have the drives running in RAID or just regular?
 
Erasmus354 said:
give your computer to me! I will send you back something that will boot up real fast lol.


When you plug in more then one do you have the drives running in RAID or just regular?
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regular, i dont know how to raid them anyway
 
Power supply. What eez your powah supply?
Also. Have you tried each drive separately, without the other installed in the machine?
And are you placing the 2nd hard drive after the CD Burner on the SATA ports? i.e. CD burner port 2, HDD No. 2 on port 3?
 
banGerprawN said:
Power supply. What eez your powah supply?
Also. Have you tried each drive separately, without the other installed in the machine?
And are you placing the 2nd hard drive after the CD Burner on the SATA ports? i.e. CD burner port 2, HDD No. 2 on port 3?
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my power supply is thermaltake pure power 560W

but i dont think the problem is from the PSU,
i removed all the power cables, i only kept one SATA HDD , VGA , and mobo
the HDD is split into 2 parts: C:80GB and D: 160GB

i am still have the same long boot screen...

the PSU is not the problem!

as for how i placed the SATA:
SATA 1:HDD
SATA 2: HDD
SATA 3: DVD Burner


i emailed DFI, he told me that i have to format all the drivers before installing windows!
is it true?
what i did was created 2 partition on the first HDD, formatted the 1st partition, and installed windows on it..
after installing windows, i formatted the second partition, and then divided the second HDD into 2 partitions and formatted them under windows....

what do u think?
 
Hmm. Power supply isn't the greatest, but it should be plenty to run all your gear.
The order of the HDDs shouldn't matter, but I thought I'd check anyway.
Now. Let me get this straight. Your first HDD is partitioned and the first partition formatted during Windows install, the 2nd partition you format after Windows is installed.
Then, you put in the second hard drive, and format it from Windows, and this is where the problems start?
First off : have you installed the nForce IDE drivers? You know, the ones where it comes up and says "Do you wish to install the nVidia SW IDE drivers?"? If so, this could be your problem.
 
I would also get the latest bios for the motherboard. My nf4 ut ultra-d was flaky until I put the latest bios on, now it runs awesome.
 
banGerprawN said:
Hmm. Power supply isn't the greatest, but it should be plenty to run all your gear.
The order of the HDDs shouldn't matter, but I thought I'd check anyway.
Now. Let me get this straight. Your first HDD is partitioned and the first partition formatted during Windows install, the 2nd partition you format after Windows is installed.
Then, you put in the second hard drive, and format it from Windows, and this is where the problems start?
First off : have you installed the nForce IDE drivers? You know, the ones where it comes up and says "Do you wish to install the nVidia SW IDE drivers?"? If so, this could be your problem.
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first of all, i installed and turned on all the Drivers, all the hardware was plugged before i installed windows, as i said before, my first HDD is partitioned and the first partition formatted during Windows install, the 2nd partition i format after Windows is installed.


i uninstalled all the nfore drivers, and i still have the same long time booting, as for the bios i have the latest bios version.
 
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