Why Does My ECS K7S5A take so long to read the ide channel?

[Gundam]

I just built my sister a new comp using the ecs board. However, it takes about 30 seconds to check the IDE channels. Thats simply too long, considering my MSI k7 master takes .3 seconds to check all the channels. After the ram check, it just kinda sits there for for awhile, then it starts displaying the connected drives.

 

[joohang]

Strange. I just went to the BIOS standard setup and hit F3. It detected everything instantly.

Did this in 2 K7S5A boards.

 

[Gundam]

I did the same thing.But when the comp boots up, right after it says "Press DEL to enter setup" it just hangs there for awhile, then it starts detecting

 

[Xray]

Are you saying that you set up your drives in your bios.

 

[igowerf]

Do the drives all work fine in Windows? Long detection times are usually caused by jumpers incorrectly set on the drives.

 

[Dragoon42]

maybe the cables aren't placed in far enough?

 

[joohang]

I agree with igowerf.

Make sure that your drives aren't trying to fight over being the Master drive.

 

[Gundam]

Jumpers and cables are fine. To throw another kink into this...when i attach a slave hd with the primary, it works quickly and fine. But when there is only one hdd, it takes forever. And no, I cant put a slave into this system, beause i need that HDD for another system.

 

[MiExStacY]

gundam in your bios theres a setting for all your masters and slaves.well for your slave dont put auto detect put disable.

 

[SUOrangeman]

Then the drive that is the "master" HD probably has the following jumper settings: "single" (master with no slave) and the regular "master" (with slave). See if you can change the jumpers to single.

-SUO

 

[Gundam]

Well i dont think there is a disabled feature, but a Not Installed one instead. I selected not installed for the secondary drives. However, It's not slow because its searching for a sec. hd, it doesnt even try to start detecting any drives (primary or secondary) for about 30 seconds.

 

[igowerf]

Yeah. Orangeman is right. You'll need to set it to Single drive on the channel to fix the slow detection.

 

[Gundam]

Ok ima try that later tonight (not at my house right now) Thanks for all the help guys. I really appreciate it