Extremely Slow Boot

[RavageDselth]

Hey,

I bought the Asus P4P800-SE yesterday along with the Intel P4 3.0E 1MB S478 processor and a stick of 512MB PC3200 Crucial Ram. I got home and installed everything but when I turned it on, it took about a minute to get into the bios.

I ignored this for a while thinking it would go away after a few more boots and installed Windows XP. To my horror...(perhaps that's too strong? ) the boot up still took way too long. I've timed it:

Asus AI P4P800-SE Screen - 58 Seconds
Blinking Cursor in Upper Left Corner Screen - 34 Seconds

After this goes away Windows XP boots up in 5 seconds.

I tried loading a game to see if everything loads up quickly with that. Unreal Tournament 2003 takes 7 seconds to start up and loading maps takes about the same time (which is great!).

So now, the only problem is getting my boot time down.

Can anybody think of why this would happen? :-/

-Ravage D'selth

 

[MrChad]

Do you have a Western Digital hard drive? If so, remove the jumper from the drive. Your POST times should be back to normal.

 

[RavageDselth]

Hey MrChad!

I do indeed have a Western Digital Hard Drive, and I did exactly as you suggested........BINGO! Booted in no time flat!:shocked:

Thank you very much for your help, but I'm curious...why did this happen?

-Ravage D'Selth

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: RavageDselth
Hey MrChad!

I do indeed have a Western Digital Hard Drive, and I did exactly as you suggested........BINGO! Booted in no time flat!:shocked:

Thank you very much for your help, but I'm curious...why did this happen?

-Ravage D'Selth

I have no idea. I experienced the same thing when building a new system for my roommate. Bizarre problem, but after a lot of searching I found that suggestion and it worked.

 

[Fern]

Originally posted by: RavageDselth
Hey MrChad!

I do indeed have a Western Digital Hard Drive, and I did exactly as you suggested........BINGO! Booted in no time flat!:shocked:

Thank you very much for your help, but I'm curious...why did this happen?

-Ravage D'Selth

WD HD ARE set to master (w/o a slave) when the jumper is OFF.

If you've got a slave on the the IDE channel with it (WD HD), then you need the jumper.