Ok, I have been here before and am back after long break, I am bit lazy but seen lots of posts about rma'ing raptors or other sata drives due to taking long time to boot into windows (hanging at windows screen)
Ok this may not be bad HDD boards, Ive had this on all 6 builds of NF4 mobo's with maxtors, the drives werent sata300 as they werent out till recently and Ive never came across the issue where you need new firmware as of issues we read about on websites.
I got a fix on a very famous Nvidia forum, where users with many differnt makes of HDD's had same problem as me with windows installing fine and after dozens of reboots updating and installing antiviri and all apps, it would most times take 5-10mins to get into windows or longest I left it was 1 hour and it still wasnt in windows, but other times it went straight in in 20secs.
Fix for now is to boot into safe mode if you cant get into windows most times anyhow, then in device manager under the nvidia ata controler (also sata) dissable NCQ on the HDD(s) upon rebooting your pc will everytime now boot as fast as it did at first, mines all are running in customers homes for many months now, and NCQ dont do anything today for perfomance. it even can be 1-2MB slower in benches.
Also on another note for NF4 builders never install Nvidia Armour for now its broke kinda and Nvidia have said it will be fixed next new mobo build with NF5 or whatever its called then, Ive had one guy say he has cable at home and it dont work but at work its ok on ADSL (I may have wrong way round cant remember 100%).
Ok this may not be bad HDD boards, Ive had this on all 6 builds of NF4 mobo's with maxtors, the drives werent sata300 as they werent out till recently and Ive never came across the issue where you need new firmware as of issues we read about on websites.
I got a fix on a very famous Nvidia forum, where users with many differnt makes of HDD's had same problem as me with windows installing fine and after dozens of reboots updating and installing antiviri and all apps, it would most times take 5-10mins to get into windows or longest I left it was 1 hour and it still wasnt in windows, but other times it went straight in in 20secs.
Fix for now is to boot into safe mode if you cant get into windows most times anyhow, then in device manager under the nvidia ata controler (also sata) dissable NCQ on the HDD(s) upon rebooting your pc will everytime now boot as fast as it did at first, mines all are running in customers homes for many months now, and NCQ dont do anything today for perfomance. it even can be 1-2MB slower in benches.
Also on another note for NF4 builders never install Nvidia Armour for now its broke kinda and Nvidia have said it will be fixed next new mobo build with NF5 or whatever its called then, Ive had one guy say he has cable at home and it dont work but at work its ok on ADSL (I may have wrong way round cant remember 100%).
