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Just put together a new comp...Epox 8RDA3G with 2600 Barton. When I turn it on the BIOS flies right to Detecting IDE Drives...then hangs for about 25 seconds, detects my dvd burner, cd rom and hard drive, then delays another 35 seconds. I turned off IDE Prefetch but that didn't help anything. Windows seems to work fine.
Anyone have any ideas?!
Did you load the chipset drivers?
In your bios, under general settings (the one in the upper left corner), are all your drives displayed or do you have it set to look for them at bootup? If all your drives aren't pressent, I believe you just hit enter at each drive and it will automically come up with what it is...hope that makes sense.
I suggest updating to the latest bios if you haven't already. Good luck. :)
My computer does the exact same thing! After messing with it for a day, I said screw it, I can live with it. I beleive that it stems from my SATA drive. When I disable the SATA, it boots up in a matter of seconds. It's like it hangs when it is trying to detect a SATA device. Eventually it finds it, and every thing is just fine after that.
I do dread reboots because of it.
tim
Well now I fear that I got a bunk hard drive because it won't work anymore. It detects the hard drive at startup, but says there is no hard drive when it tries to start windows.
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Figured it out! A single WD hard drive requires you have no jumpers, I took it off and it works great, woohoo.
gotta love a cheap fix! :D That was how my Lite-on didn't get recognized at first, jumper was wrong...