Pc slow to boot

[chrisjohn]

i have a gateway pc on the boot up screen (gateway logo screen) it takes ages to boot and shows the hard drive and the cd-roms after about a minute, all this is fixed when i run a secondary hard drive on the primary ide as a slave. but it takes ages to work with just one hard drive set as master. anyone help?

 

[chaps]

Your bios may show an additional hard drive present when there is not one. At boot up the bios sees a second drive that it tries to boot but it is not there. This causes a temporary halt on error, after several tries to boot the non-existing derive the bios goes forward booting other devices until boot up is complete. See if you can access the bios then check and correct errors found.

Good luck!

Mike

 

[chrisjohn]

still wont work i tried adjusting my bios settings but it doesnt fix the problem my pc also takes ages to shutdown ever since i had 2 drives.

 

[Dreamland]

What model of HD are you using as the primary master? 40 or 80-conductor IDE cable?

 

[chrisjohn]

i dont know what sort of ide cable i am using but all these problems started after i used a second drive as primary with win 95 installed and my win98 as a slave and then tried to put it back to just my win98 as master and no slave.

 

[wolluf]

Have you got bios set to autodetect second drive? (if so, it may be causing delay - looking for drive that isn't there)

 

[chrisjohn]

no its set to none

 

[chrisjohn]

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