60 second startup delay - Windows 2000 and XP
Uncle Mungo
- SiS 645 motherboard chipset
- Windows 2000 or XP (tried both)
- Latest SiS IDE driver installed
- Hard drive on primary IDE channel
- CD writer on secondary IDE channel
When I boot into Windows 2000 (or XP) the system pauses for 60 seconds
at the Windows 2000 splash screen. After 60 seconds the blue bar
starts moving again and it boots normally.
An interesting thing I found is that if I add a second IDE device to
the secondary IDE channel (e.g. a CD-ROM drive), there's no delay.
I've searched Google Groups for a solution but haven't found one. Any
ideas?
Craig Sutton
"Uncle Mungo" <uncle...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Searching for network devices?
Craig Shore
wrote:
>This is a problem that's been bugging me for a long time.
>
>- SiS 645 motherboard chipset
>- Windows 2000 or XP (tried both)
>- Latest SiS IDE driver installed
>- Hard drive on primary IDE channel
>- CD writer on secondary IDE channel
>
>When I boot into Windows 2000 (or XP) the system pauses for 60 seconds
>at the Windows 2000 splash screen. After 60 seconds the blue bar
>starts moving again and it boots normally.
>
>An interesting thing I found is that if I add a second IDE device to
>the secondary IDE channel (e.g. a CD-ROM drive), there's no delay.
What's in your BIOS? What is the first IDE device set to, Master,
Slave or Cable Select?
I'd try changing those and see what happens.
Ian Boyes
If you enable boot logging from the XP startup screen, it will write a file
called Ntbtlog.txt which I think contains the time each driver
started/finished. You can read the file directly or use bootVis.exe (from
the microsoft site
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/platform/performance/fastboot/BootVis.asp) to
view the info. It may give you a clue as to which driver is going to sleep
for a while
Regards
Ian Boyes
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Stephen Williams
Go to Device Manager, look under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Go to the
secondary IDE channel, then click on the Advanced Settings Tab. There will
be 2 devices listed, one will actually be nothing. Change the device type on
this to NONE.
Might pay to do the same with the Primary IDE channel.
Steve
Uncle Mungo
> Searching for network devices?
My network card has a static IP, but I've also tried removing the card
just to be sure. Still get the delay.
Uncle Mungo
> What's in your BIOS?
Primary master: Hard drive
Primary slave: None
Secondary master: CD writer
Secondary slave: None
> What is the first IDE device set to, Master, Slave or Cable Select?
As above.
> I'd try changing those and see what happens.
I've tried making the CD writer secondary slave, but still get the
delay.
As long as there are two devices on the secondary IDE channel there's
no delay. It doesn't matter that there's only one device on the
primary IDE channel.
Craig Sutton
Maybe in the bios settings..
Uncle Mungo
> Go to Device Manager, look under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Go to the
> secondary IDE channel, then click on the Advanced Settings Tab. There will
> be 2 devices listed, one will actually be nothing. Change the device type on
> this to NONE.
It was previously set to Auto-detection. Changing it to None fixed the
problem. Thanks a million! And to think I'd been suffering needlessly
all this time.