K8VSE Deluxe Boot Issue (SLOW)

[ultrascoob]

Hello,

My boot speed is horrendously slow. It takes a good 20 - 30 seconds to get off the post screen. Then about that long after raid starts up, goes to grub and then another 10 -15 seconds till Window$ starts to boot. It takes forever. Any help anyone could give me would be great. Particulars below.

Boot problem occurs indifferent to GRUB, it just your standard dual boot system, I have also tested without dual boot and the results are the same.

This problem has also occurred through 3 bios updates

I also have a mystery SCSI device in device manager, I can't seem to figure out what it is and I can't get it to accept a driver of any kind.

No Floppy Drive is connected

Hardware

ASUS K8VSE Deulxe (1006.1 Bios)
AMD64 3200 (Socket 754)
1024 PC3200 (512x2) Cas 2.5
80Gb Maxtor (Primary Master Hard Drive that includes Linux and Windows in seperate partitions)
200Gb x 2 Seagate drives in RAID 0
100Gb Western Digital (connected via USB 2.0) <does not seem to affect boot speed>
DVD+R/RW 8x (Secondary Master)
ATI X800 Pro
2 Belkin USB 2.0 Cards (4port)
Ideazon Zboard Keyboard
Logitech MX1000 Lazer Mouse
Dell FP2000 20" LCD connected via DVI
Windows XP SP2 (All current updates)
All Current drivers installed.

Any Help Would Be Greatly Appreciated As I As At My Wits END.

-Scoob

 

[hondAS2ooo170]

i had this prob all i had to do is defrag

 

[ultrascoob]

hmmmm,

I am wicked good on the Defrag. Could you be more specific?

 

[hondAS2ooo170]

defrag hd

 

[ultrascoob]

OK,

I Defraged the HD, MFT, Page File, etc. Drive C: is no longer fragmented, nothing changed.

It still takes over a minute to get to GRUB.

I just don't understand this problem, faulty HD maybe?

-Scoob

 

[Solutions]

Not sure what "GRUB" is...

Have you enabled the "Quickboot" option in the BIOS (pretty sure this board has that option). Also, be sure to disable the floppy in the BIOS and verify that the setting related to "search for a floppy upon boot" is disabled (cant remember the exact name of the setting). I think its taking so long because it is looking for your floppy drive. You can speed up the boot process even more by disabling all the ports that you do not use (serial, parallel, IDE2, etc).

Also, the SCSI device has got to be a RAID controller unless you have added some additional PCI card for extra HDD interfaces. To get the driver installed you may want to try going to the Windows Device Mgr, highlight the SCSI device, right click it and "Update Driver". Make sure that you select the option to ALLOW Windows to check the Windows Update site for a new driver. That should do it.

ps- I don't have my K8V mobo in front of me but if it has multiple raid controllers then make sure to disable any that are not in use. It will add 5-15secs to your boot time if you have a RAID controller enabled but not in use. The mobo will sit idle while it waits for the RAID controller to search for an OS (whether or not there is a HDD installed on the controller).