PC Takes ages to boot and shutdown

[chrisjohn]

I used an old hard drive as my primary drive, and my primary as a slave drive. When i put it back to normal (1 primary drive, it takes ages to boot and shutdown as if it is searching for another drive or something. I have tried every bios setting possible and cant fix it. When i hook the other drive up as a slave it operates fine.

 

[Dreamland]

chrisjohn -

This sounds like a problem with the drive jumpers.

First of all, there is usually a Primary and Secondary IDE cable - the drives themselves are either configured as 'Master' or 'Slave' on either of those cables (not 'Primary' or 'Secondary'). I assume you're talking about only one IDE ribbon cable (the Primary IDE channel) and either having one or two drives connected to that cable at the same time, right?

The drives themselves need to be jumpered correctly whether they are by themselves or with another drive on the same cable. Since you're having problems with only one drive connected, then it may not be jumpered correctly. It should be jumpered as 'Master' or (on some models, usually Maxtors) 'Master without Slave'. What model drive is it?

 

[chrisjohn]

sorry i meant master not primary, my drive is set as master on the master connecter of the cbale connected to the the primary ide channel. it is a seagate drive.

 

[Bobg1]

On some drives, in a single drive configuration, they should not be set as master, they have a setting for single drive. You might want to check and see if that might be the situation you have.

 

[Dreamland]

Need to know the specific model number to verify the jumper setting, chrisjohn - unless they're printed right on the drive. Could be a bad cable as well - have you tried swapping with another one?