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I don't get it. Sadly I can't help but I don't run in AHCI either.

Running Vista x64 Ultimate at home and Vista x32 Enterprise at work. Quite nippy to boot up on both IMHO faster than XP.



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My Vista 64 installation does exactly the same, but I can see the access lights on my two NEC DVD-RW's light in sequence during this pause. Google hasn't come up with any answers as to why this happens..., I've been trying to stop this happening for ages and any help would be very welcome!
 
Have the same thing here. Never paid much attention to it though as it only hangs for around 5 seconds so it doesn't bother me.

Unless it starts to cause real problems I'll leave things alone.
 
Look at the lights on your keyboard when it does this (caps lock, num lock etc), it used to do it in XP as well as Vista. I was pretty sure that this is loading all devices such as k/b & mouse.
 
Eddie182 said:
Have the same thing here. Never paid much attention to it though as it only hangs for around 5 seconds so it doesn't bother me.

Unless it starts to cause real problems I'll leave things alone.
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No, not really a problem. It's just because I can see the DVD drives being accessed - makes me think "they are empty - you're wasting your time looking there for anything" and want to disable it...!
 
Kermit said:
thanks for the responses, its good to know its not just me or the way i setup my PC.

Tonight [time permitting] I'm going to try something as I think but aren't sure that when i first enabled AHCI and Vista loaded its own MS drivers, the pause didn't exist but shortly afterwards I'll have updated my Catalyst drivers which these days iirc also contain the ATI AHCI driver. So I'll re-run the Catalyst setup and uninstall ATI's AHCI/Sata driver and see if the pause disappears.

If it doesn't then like the rest of you with this, I'll not lose sleep over it :p but I do like a PC to boot up fairly quick and mine would be fairly nippy if it wasn't for this.
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Same here, it's a small thing, but if small things didn't bug me I wouldn't be on a forum discussing it instead of working! FWIW, my SATA drives are set at IDE, not AHCI, but good luck...
 
mine does the same - if i have a disk my optical drive. it just sits there for ages before deciding to spin up and then gets into windows. however it boots just fine with no disk in.....:)

(running ahci mode too)
 
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