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IDE Detecting o_O

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NotAFattyDotCom

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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 did buy this new processor to go faster not slower.. :p
 
check your jumpers on your HDDs----i had the exact same problem on my moms computer where it would sit there and try to detect one of the HDDs for at LEAST a minute; one quick switch of the jumper, and the baby was up and running fine. ;)

on a side note, if the above doesnt work you could always try checking/swapping cables.
 
Specs???

It may just be your system. My board does this "scan for devices" before it detects anything on the 2nd and 3rd IDE channels or any of the 4 SATA ports, which takes for bloody ever.
 
Most of the time if you go into your bios setup you can have it configure the ide devices so that it doesn't have to scan them at every boot. Most bioses will have an ide device autodetection. The only downside(if you even want to call it that) of doing this is that you'll have to go into the bios to reconfigure stuff if you ever change your ide device setup.
 
NotAFattyDotCom said:
But that's the problem.... It is under auto detect....
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Well there's a difference between having the IDE devices set to auto and having the bios autodetect the devices. If you go into the bios and do autodetect, it'll detect the drives and save the settings. If the ide devices are set to auto, then they'll be detected on each boot. But it would help if we knew what motherboard you have.
 
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
 
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