| Author |
Computer taking an age to boot up
|
|
| Russ1978 2004-09-06, 4:33 pm |
| After putting in an additional hard drive (maxtor 160gb) into my computer is the slave drive my computer now takes forever to boot up. The screen goes black for about 5 mins then proceeds to start windows xp. Why has it started to go black for so long. I`ve been trying to sort this for a while now but gonna have to ask the pro`s on here. Appreciate anybody knowing why its doing this and sharing the solution with me.
Thanks | |
| curiousgeorge 2004-09-08, 2:51 pm |
| Russ,
I haven't had a problem like that before.
My two suggestions might be that the cable could be bad. Try replacing the cable to the harddrive.
Also, try changing the jumper settings to Cable Select to see if that helps.
Hope one of those works. | |
| sandy7000 2004-09-08, 7:16 pm |
| Thanks for trying, George. | |
| Russ1978 2004-09-09, 2:27 pm |
| will try that!! How to i set it to cable select?
Thanks very much for your help indeed! | |
| curiousgeorge 2004-09-09, 2:35 pm |
| There should be a chart on the hard drive itself for the different jumper settings. If not, you should be able to look on the manufacturer's website.
Also, you might want to try running the chkdsk utility from the command line:
Click on Start, then Run...
type cmd, then press OK
From the command line, type chkdsk
Hope that helps. | |
| killabee3001 2004-09-10, 9:31 am |
| It's not always a good idea to share a hard drive with another IDE device on one IDE controller, especially if its being shared with another hard drive because it can really slow the booting of your system and more. Also, if the hard drive's speed is over 66MBps, the IDE cable should have 80 wires. Try having the hard drive on it's own IDE bus by itself. If you don't have space, you could buy a PCI IDE controller, but then if the hard drive's speed is faster than 133MBps, it would be useless because then the speed of the hard drive is limited by the PCI bus.
I hope this helps. | |
| sandy7000 2004-09-10, 1:33 pm |
| So, it's partly a bus speed issue? | |
| dqbiggerfam 2004-09-12, 9:51 pm |
| If you are going to add another hardrive to the standard setup(HD on the primanry IDE bus, CDROM drive on the secondary), I would put the spare HD on the secondary IDE bus. I'm not positive about whether it should be master or slave though. |
|
|
|