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Extremely slow BIOS statup after changing hard disk

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gnurbmaster

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Hi, I just removed my system hard disk (IBM 14 GB, ATA-33) and replaced it with my new Western Digital 100 GB (ATA-100), but now my BIOS is extremely slow on startup, and sometimes it won't recognize the WD-drive at all.

I previously had the WD-drive as slave on the secondary controller just for storage but now I want to have both my system and storage on it since it's much faster being ATA-100, and I'll use the old IBM-drive in my Linux-server. I've jumpered the WD-drive as master and it's attached with and ATA-66/100 cable.

Other equipment: Epox 8KHA+, Athlon XP 1600+, Samsung 52x CD-ROM (secondary, master), Tekram SCSI controller, Pioneer DVD (scsi), Yamaha CDRW (scsi), Elsa Gladiac 721 (GeForce3 Ti200).

Anyone got an idea what could be wrong here?
 
Check the connections, and try a different cable, also run the western digital drive fitness test, it could mean that the drive is failing🙁 is S.M.A.R.T. enabled?
 
If I read correctly you only have one drive in the system now. If this is the case then you want to set the drive jumpers to the neutral position, not as a master. If it is in the master position the the bios will be checking if you have a slave a boot up.

Settings can be found here.
 
Thanks for the suggestions, I discovered that the drive wanted to be configured as single and not master (as I think all my other drives accept when being a single drive on one controller). After configuring the drive as single it was detected immediately. Problem (?) now is that the post-bios screen shows that the drive is "LRG, PIO-4, 100 GB" and that is a little bit strange isn't it? I mean shouldn't it be displayed as ATA100 or something?
 
Strange thing is that everything concerning the HD's are set to auto in my bios. And upon startup it is recognized as WD1000BB+<some more> which seems correct. It's on the post-bios screen the drive is shown as LRG, PIO-4, 100GB. I've installed my OS now (WinXP) and everything seems to work, but could this mean degraded performance in some way?
 
Go into BIOS and check the IDE connections thing. It is probably set to your old hard drive. Change it to AUTO or your new one.
 
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