New Computer Problem

[s1rlynchalot]

So I got a new computer for Christmas. It's a DFI Lanparty NF4SLI-D, and when i first started it up i forgot to plug the HDDs in, so it was just booting the Windows CD without them. When I plugged them in it went so painfully slow, if I hadn't gone out of the room for a minute I'd have thought it was frozen at the boot screen, then eventually it loaded the 'boot from cd' screen, then Windows, but it's going so slow something has to be wrong. From the time I power it up until the 'examining hardware config.' screen it probably was 5-8 minutes. I'm assuming there's some jumper setting that I don't have on, but I can't seem to find out what it is. Any ideas?

TIA

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[Proteus]

We need a bit more information. Did you plug the hard drives in while the system was up and powered? What types of HDs? (IDE or SATA or SCSI) Does the slowness show with just one or the other HD attached?

 

[Mak]

I would disconnect all the hard drives and make sure that it goes really quickly. Then I would add a hard drive, and I would see what happens. Supposing its still quick I would add another hard drive and see what happens. Try and isolate all the different parts as best you can. That will give you a solution.

 

[Toonage]

You say you got a new Computer.........then you say about the DFI.......did you get a bunch of PARTS for a computer? Are these new drives, or ones from a previous Operating system on one of them? Proper help comes with explaining the details of your situation.