*HELP* Really SLOW Boot Times

[Kumitsu]

Hello all, i am new to Anandtech Boards. I am having alittle problem with my PC, i would appreciate your help.

Here are my system specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6850
4GB PC8500 Corsair Dominator
Raid 0 (2 Raptor X 150GB)
Gigabyte Motherboard (GA-P35C-DS3R)
XFX 8800GTS XXX Edition (factory overclocked)

I just recently installed raid 0 on windows xp and for some odd strange reason it takes awhile for my system to boot up. The system shows signs of "jumpy?" loading times during the Windows screen, I usually get around 11-14bars across the screen before it loads windows completly.

1- I disabled everything in msconfig/startup and the problem still persist.
2- I have installed windows xp with raid 0 , 2times and the problem continues.
3- I also ran Hard drive diagnostics with HDTune and Windows XP Scanning tool.
4- I've ran CCleanr and Regcure, and still nothing.

All i have installed in my system is all windows xp updates, thats about it, i have no games, no music, ect. (I will after i get this solution fixed.)


any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Quiksilver]

If I remember correctly while using RAID boot times are usually slower than a single hard drive. It also has to to with the quality of the RAID controller.

 

[daveybrat]

Have you tried installing windows on just one hard drive without raid yet?

 

[Kumitsu]

Originally posted by: daveybrat
Have you tried installing windows on just one hard drive without raid yet?

I will have to try that.

What is weird about all of this is that when i enable S.M.A.R.T, diagnostic softwares doesnt detect it

i dont know if this has anything to do with it.

 

[mrblotto]

are you using Hardware RAID (ie a RAID controller), or going thru Windows Computer Management-Disk Management to set up a RAID volume?

 

[RadiclDreamer]

A raid config can sometimes prolong boot times due to the initialization of the extra drives

 

[Kumitsu]

Originally posted by: mrblotto
are you using Hardware RAID (ie a RAID controller), or going thru Windows Computer Management-Disk Management to set up a RAID volume?

if you are refering too, installing raid 0 through windows xp installation process, then yes.


Also i like to add that i added 2 different hard drives to my system and its doing the same thing at startup.

So i can definetly rule out the hard drives, it has to be something else in my system.

any ideas ?