re: Slow boot
Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 11:35 pm
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Posted by Alex
(82 messages posted)
Hi,
You hit a good point.
If you look at my signature profile, you see my first drive, a Maxtor 40GB, I had
the problem already 5 years ago.
Then, I bought the WD 120 GB that became the primary drive, while the old Maxtor
is now the secondary one (back up).
With WD nothing changed, notwithstanding I installed the latest BIOS and of course
reformatted.
I never tried to disconnect all the drives and leave the WD only, but I will do and
let you know the result.
Thanks for the tip
Alex
AOPEN AX34, PIII 1.0 GHz, 1GB RAM, HD Maxtor 40GB, HD WD 120 GB, LaCie 500 GB,
Plextor 16/10/40A, Plextor PX-716A, HIS Excalibur Radeon 9600 256Mb, 2xMonitor Philips
109P20 Br, Canon i865, Ethernet D-Link DE-828CT, Philips ToUCam Pro, WXP PRO
On Wednesday, November 22, 2006 at 4:24 pm, C K wrote:
>Generally a hardware issue, usually a stall before, or when handing off to the boot
>hard drive. Is this the same HDD that you started out with?? Some of the older
>drives would cause this, especially if they were not jumpered correctly for a Master
>with Slave installed (mostly the older WDs and a few Maxtor models).. A troublesome
>floppy drive (and CD drives) can also stall the booting. Have you tried disconnecting
>everything except the booting HDD, disabling the floppy in the BIOS (and physically
>disconnect it) to see what happens? Could be deeper hardware issues but it takes
>diagnostics hardware installed into the machine to really diagnose a deeper problem
>IME.. Worst case is it is an issue with the motherboard, which wouldn't surprise
>me with Acer.. :-(
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