Anyone figure out the long load times with Win2K and A7V ATA100.

[Dulanic]

Has anyone figured out how to fix the long ass load times when using the promise ATA100 controller on a A7V with Win2K? Before I used ATA100 everything was fine, once I installed the drivers and enabled the controler during the load screen the blue meter thing stops moving for about 30 seconds.... making for a long load time. Anyone know a fix?

 

[Tetsuo316]

yeah, in the device manager, disable it. i'm not using an ata100 drive, but an ata66 drive, so i hooked up the drive to the ata66 connection on the motherboard, and disabled the ata100 controller both in the bios and in win2k. i go from power on to opening a program in about a minute. if you've got an ata100 drive, i don't know what to tell you. that's just how it is apparently.

 

[FastEddie]

Yes. Go to Asus' site and dl the newest driver for the controller---it'll take 30-40 seconds off your boot time.

 

[Dulanic]

Disabling it is not an option. I have to use it since I have 7 IDE devices.

 

[Dulanic]

Cool new drivers worked. Now it only stops for about 1 second. Anyone who needs to do this make sure you have 1.60 Build 25 NOT Build 19.

 

[Tetsuo316]

that's why he's elite.