Extremely slow BIOS statup after changing hard disk

[gnurbmaster]

Hi, I just removed my system hard disk (IBM 14 GB, ATA-33) and replaced it with my new Western Digital 100 GB (ATA-100), but now my BIOS is extremely slow on startup, and sometimes it won't recognize the WD-drive at all.

I previously had the WD-drive as slave on the secondary controller just for storage but now I want to have both my system and storage on it since it's much faster being ATA-100, and I'll use the old IBM-drive in my Linux-server. I've jumpered the WD-drive as master and it's attached with and ATA-66/100 cable.

Other equipment: Epox 8KHA+, Athlon XP 1600+, Samsung 52x CD-ROM (secondary, master), Tekram SCSI controller, Pioneer DVD (scsi), Yamaha CDRW (scsi), Elsa Gladiac 721 (GeForce3 Ti200).

Anyone got an idea what could be wrong here?

 

[Slacker]

Check the connections, and try a different cable, also run the western digital drive fitness test, it could mean that the drive is failing is S.M.A.R.T. enabled?

 

[SilentRunning]

If I read correctly you only have one drive in the system now. If this is the case then you want to set the drive jumpers to the neutral position, not as a master. If it is in the master position the the bios will be checking if you have a slave a boot up.

Settings can be found here.

 

[gnurbmaster]

Thanks for the suggestions, I discovered that the drive wanted to be configured as single and not master (as I think all my other drives accept when being a single drive on one controller). After configuring the drive as single it was detected immediately. Problem (?) now is that the post-bios screen shows that the drive is "LRG, PIO-4, 100 GB" and that is a little bit strange isn't it? I mean shouldn't it be displayed as ATA100 or something?

 

[Slacker]

You need to check the ata and pio modes they should be set to "auto" in the bios

 

[yourharddrive]

hey...i gott sorta same problem....my lappy hdd was sapped during a RMA and now bios takes 6 xtra secs, y?

 

[gnurbmaster]

Strange thing is that everything concerning the HD's are set to auto in my bios. And upon startup it is recognized as WD1000BB+<some more> which seems correct. It's on the post-bios screen the drive is shown as LRG, PIO-4, 100GB. I've installed my OS now (WinXP) and everything seems to work, but could this mean degraded performance in some way?

 

[ku]

Go into BIOS and check the IDE connections thing. It is probably set to your old hard drive. Change it to AUTO or your new one.

 

[bacillus]

<< but could this mean degraded performance in some way? >>


PIO4 is much slower than UDMA5!