Boot up time slow - or is it

SexyGreyFox · 14 Jan 2006 at 10:34

My PC stays on 24/7 and I only reboot when absolutely needed BUT I think a time of 44 seconds to get to the first Windows booting sign is a bit slow compared to the other 3 PC's in my house that get there in under 10 seconds. I'm not bothered after that because I have so many things loaded I know its going to drag a bit.

My mobo is an ASUS P5AD2 with 2 gig DDR2 and a P4 3.6.

Any ideas?

SexyGreyFox · 15 Jan 2006 at 12:29

This is before windows kicks in.
It is taking 44 secs just for the BIOS to kick in to the start of windows loading.

Dale1uk is closer to the answer because you wouldn't believe how much stuff I've got plugged in.

SexyGreyFox · 21 Jan 2006 at 14:17

Solved my 'problem' by solving another.
Last friday (13th) I bought a 400 gig WD hard drive from OCUK.
The installation went fine and I copied three drives worth of stuff over to it.
It was on thursday that I noticed that something wan't right as though my DVD writer was flashing because the data couldn't keep up with it. We used to have this problem a lot in the old days of 1x, 2x and 4 x writers.
I downloaded a useful little utility called HD_Speed and it clocked my C:\drive at 54 mbps but my new drive at 3 mbps :eek:

All I did was to get out a new SATA cable and plugged it into another SATA port on the mobo and now its reading at 62 mbps (faster than my Raptor?!?).
My BIOS always stopped at the part where it shows your EIDE drives (and for some reason it still only shows one of my CD-Roms) but it now flies past it.
Obviously the BIOS was looking for the SATA drive but something was not quite right even though the speed always seemed OK on the other drive.

Thanks

SexyGreyFox · 22 Jan 2006 at 20:18

noxidjkram@hotm said:
I can't figure whats going on. Might try setting that jumper myself, as my board only supports SATAI.

M

Try another SATA connector on the board or another cable - worked for me.