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5/8 second BIOS delay..is this normal?

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akashwiz

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Well I have a Athlon 64 bit 3000+ processor (venice) attached to ASUS K8V-MX board and 512 RAM. I have one 80 GB harddisk on primary master and one DVD-ROM on secondary master. And a 80 GB SATA drive on SATA1. If I disable the Onchip SATA Boot ROM in BIOS and boot the system into windows 98 from my normal harddisk, there is a 4-5 second delay before windows starts booting. If I enable the Onchip SATA Boot ROM setting in BIOS, this delay is around 7-8 seconds. I just wanted to know from people, is this delay normal or there is something causing this. I have already played with all the settings in BIOS and could only increase this delay no😕t decrease it. I am also confused about two similar settings in BIOS.

Onchip SATA Enabled/Disabled
Onchip SATA Boot ROM Enabled/Disabled

Whats the differnce between the two? According to me changing the former doesn't have any effect. Whether its set to enabled/disabled doesn't mean anything, its the BOOT ROM thing which matters. Am I right?

Best Regards
Akash
 
you still use win 98? 😕

i cant comment on the boot delay, sorry, but the dif between onboard sata and onboard sata boot rom sounds simple, the first decides whether or not onboard sata is enabled or not, and the second option is whether or not the system can boot from sata or not
 
I have both Win98 and WinXP. I use win98 for troubleshooting and lower level operations on my computer as it gives me more control and authority over my computer then taking everything in its own hands.

Thanks for telling me that difference. I really needed that. But if I disable the SATA Boot ROM setting and keep Onchip SATA enabled in BIOS and boot into windows 98 from my non-SATA drive, I don't see the partitions of my SATA drive in "my computer". What am I missing?
 
Its not about windows I guess as I have both WinXP and Win98. This 5 second delay is there before the windows starts showing its logo no matter which version it is. Even if I try to boot from floopy/CD after giving it top boot priority, this delay is there before the system accesses the CD/floopy.
 
if you disable boot rom, you should still be able to boot off of regular ata drives. try it. worst case scenario, you have to re-enable it
 
I am able to boot from my regular ATA drive with SATA Boot ROM disbaled but what do I need to see my SATA drive partitions. Do I need to install some drivers or something into windows?
 
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