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boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives"
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boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives"
Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 5:48 am
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?
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re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives"
Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 7:50 am
Posted by triplate
(20834 messages posted)
Yeh....quit Updating....its killing your puter.Get a Router .
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re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives"
Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 8:39 am
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?
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re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives"
Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Posted by appleoddity
(2369 messages posted)
First of all, the problem has nothing to do with Windows or any settings in Windows.
This is technically not even appropriate for this forum.
It is only a matter of finding out what combination of settings you need in the BIOS,
or figuring out what hardware in the computer is causing the problem.
In any case, it is still not a Windows issue.
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re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives"
Thursday, December 25, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Posted by C K
(6910 messages posted)
It's not unusual for the BIOS screen to report that it is looking for an IDE drive.
SATA is basically for a simple explanation on an IDE interface only an advanced
interface. It is SATA instead of the old PATA. XP doesn't support the advanced
spec of the SATA so actually runs in an older IDE mode. Vista supports the advanced
features of the SATA specification.
If you can verify that nothing changed in the BIOS, I would say from experience that
you have a failing drive. This is usually the symptoms of this issue. If your machine
has hardware diagnostics available to run, you can run tests on the drive, or if
the drive manufacture has a diagnostics utility for their drives, download and run
it. Even if it checks OK, that won't mean that it is. Also check the Event Viewer
for errors pertaining to the hard drive.
This may explain the confusion over the IDE message on the screen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA
Also another discussion on typical misunderstanings of SATA and IDE:
http://forum.soft32.com/windows/SATA-IDE-ftopict379279.html
Bottom line, I would suspect you have a failing drive and would recommend that you
have a spare on hand. The first SATA drives were poor on reliability and from what
I see come in, PATA drives are still a little more reliable and less error prone.
Anytime electronics has a speed boost, issues usually crop up that have to be ironed
out, and they still aren't all solved from the testing I have done. Quite a bit better
than when they were first released though..
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re: boot screen lags at "searching for IDE drives"
Friday, December 26, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Posted by Jacob6601
(2174 messages posted)
It is also possible that an optical (cd/dvd) drive is causing the error. Disable
all drives (except boot drive c:) in bios to see if you boot normally.
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