re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 8:39 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by samspade (134 messages posted) i would say keep looking in the bios ,look for something like enable sata ,disable ide ,i have seen it in some bios versions On Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 5:48 am, chuckinabox wrote: >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? Written in response to: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives" (chuckinabox: Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 5:48 am) There are presently no replies to this message. 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