Slow start-up WinXP on SATA RAID0

[Artofkicking]

Hi folks;

I didn't see anything specific doing a search, so here goes. I set-up my XP on my new SATA RAID0 drive(s). In the beginning it loaded in about one minute. It seems now that my system boots slower and slower each time. Yes I have defragged the drive and updated drivers. Also when I first start my pc, if I click to open my Computer--normal open, but when I click on the C: drive (My RAID0) it takes explorer a minute or more to "see" the drive.

Thoughts

 

[Zee]

there's a timer that searches for something(other drives? I forgot) on boot up, check ure bios and change the timer to 10 seconds

edit: half my words didn't come up

 

[Artofkicking]

Do you mean the ide delay? I don't think that will effect the RAID set. But, it is set to 2 secs vs. the 3 secs it came at.

More information on my system:

SATA RAID0 two raptors / controller is onboard silicon image
Motherboard is an ABIT NF7-S v2
Barton 2800 cpu

More on the problem:

From boot (cold or warm) When system attempts to verify the DMI, delay
once verified, it takes about half a minute for the drive LED to become active (no sound from the drives either during this time.
Once the drives start clicking along the log-on screen comes up fairly quick.
The time to load a user is somewhat lower than it usually is.
And again, windows explorer has trouble finding the "C" drive (the RAID array) it takes sometimes a minute or more. I should add that this occurs only the first time I attemt to view the drive, subsequent attempts open the drive normally.All other drives open immediately first click. The problem seems to be with the raid array, but it did not used to do this.

 

[Artofkicking]

To moderator, please delete this. I have moved the topic to "Technical Support. Thanks, Art...