boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 5:48 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by chuckinabox (21 messages posted) My wifes computer has started taking a long time to boot up, have tried to shut down unnecessary start up items like "nero indexing" (as recomended at pc pitstop) etc. The system seems to hang up at the "searching for IDE drives" part of the boot sequence. There are no IDE drives in her system. even the DVD drive is SATA..It eventually moves on (a full 2 or 3 minutes later) & boots in to windows. She has updated all of the "critical" updates at the windows site, regularly. And runs spybot search & destroy regularly (updated too) along with antiver on auto update. She does her updates & cleanup once a week, at minimum. I have tried to find a setting in the bios to not look for ide drives but to no avail. Any suggestions? Responses to this message: re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (triplate: Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 7:50 am) re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (samspade: Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 8:39 am) re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (appleoddity: Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 10:18 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (chuckinabox: Thu, Dec 25, 2008, 5:48 am) re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (triplate: Thu, Dec 25, 2008, 7:50 am) re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (samspade: Thu, Dec 25, 2008, 8:39 am) re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (appleoddity: Thu, Dec 25, 2008, 10:18 pm) re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (C K: Thu, Dec 25, 2008, 10:30 pm) re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (Jacob6601: Fri, Dec 26, 2008, 9:39 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum