NF7-S SATA delay in minutes....

[John Russell]

wrote:

With SATA disabled, boot is normal, goes to windows immediately. With SATA enabled, I get a 3-5 Minute (!) delay before Windows XP boots. I have one drive on the SATA with a serilello adaptor, and three other HDs, one formatted for Gentoo Linux.
The rest:
XP 1600
2 - 512MB 2700 DDR dimms
ATI Radeo 7000
Realtek 10/100 NIC
This is mainly my general test machine, with a dynamic backup volume for the server. It mostly sits there folding proteins <grin>, ...

If you can boot without it enabled then it implies your drive is the chipset controller. So when you enable the SATA are you moving the drive across. I woudn't be surprised to find the SATA driver taking a significant amount of time to work out nothing is connected. After all the SATA bios takes an age to find drives as well!

I disable the unused chipset controller IDE ports in device manager for exactly that reason. Every little helps.

 

[Darren]

wrote:

With SATA disabled, boot is normal, goes to windows immediately. With SATA enabled, I get a 3-5 Minute (!) delay before Windows XP boots.
I have one drive on the SATA with a serilello adaptor, and three

other

HDs, one formatted for Gentoo Linux.
The rest:
XP 1600
2 - 512MB 2700 DDR dimms
ATI Radeo 7000
Realtek 10/100 NIC
This is mainly my general test machine, with a dynamic backup volume for the server. It mostly sits there folding proteins <grin>, but I'd kind of like to get it up as my linux webserver/fileserver, but I am leery of the SATA interface with that unusual boot

delay.

Anybody seen this before?
A good sense of humor is necessary (but not sufficient) for sanity.

I had a similar boot delay when I had a data disk that was not being detected by the BIOS. Once XP had booted it could see the disk and access it correctly. The HD is a western digital and was attached using a serillel connector. The way I fixed it was to set the IDE mode to Cable Select not Master as stated in abit manual, this was a fix from the Silicon Image website. Once I did that the disk was detected in the BIOS and XP booted faster.

hope this helps.