Boot help

[Surf314]

Trying to speed up my boot time, I have an issue were the mobo logo pops up then it says no harddrive detected, then the mobo logo pops up again and it boots fine. I have no idea why it says no harddrive detected. If I can get rid of that I think I can shave 5 seconds off my boot.

[CaffeinePowered]

It might be your RAID trying to find drives, just turn it off

[DragonEkarus]

have you checked that your hard disk is connected? it seems a bit odd to me but it's still worth a shot to check. My reasoning is that maybe (just maybe) your hard-disk cable(s) (power or other important stuffs) is loose and just as the fan kicks in it (somehow) knocks the cable into (just) the right place.

(Vauge concept but I'd like to try to be helpful...)

[rumsfald]

If I can get rid of that I think I can shave 5 seconds off my booty.

You would.

[WaR1761]

I had similar issue... essentially it was checking for an old IDE cd-rom drive that I had originally connected but then later replaced with a sata drive. It then would check the IDE ports to listen and see if anything was on them, even though nothing was on them. Looked it up in the bios settings and turned it off.

[Surf314]

I had similar issue... essentially it was checking for an old IDE cd-rom drive that I had originally connected but then later replaced with a sata drive. It then would check the IDE ports to listen and see if anything was on them, even though nothing was on them. Looked it up in the bios settings and turned it off.

This sounds like my problem exactly, how did you turn them off?

[WaR1761]

Whats you motherboard brand and model. I can't recall off hand what I changed since I can't see the bios atm (at work) but I can tell you later.

[Surf314]

Whats you motherboard brand and model. I can't recall off hand what I changed since I can't see the bios atm (at work) but I can tell you later.

ASUS M4A79XTD EVO

[WaR1761]

From what I can see with just the manual it should be in the "Onboard Devices Configuration" menu. In there should be an option for "Marvell IDE" disable that and it should turn it off, thus skipping the 5 sec wait time. This shouldn't turn off your SATA drive capability, if it does then that's not it.

On a separate note if your building or messing with a home made computer I would highly recommend checking out this issue of Maximum PC, it has a AWESOME article(pg. 48) detailing things in BIOS. I read through it and had many Ah ha moments. All non-current issues are available to read here.

[Surf314]

No Marvell IDE setting, I read on the forums to disable Marvell sata but that seems a bit counter productive since my boot drive is sata?

[WaR1761]

You should see that option unless ASUS's manual is lying to me lol. Its mentioned on pg 3-18 and 3-19(3.5.4 On Board Device Configuration) of the manual. Should be in the same area of the BIOS where you can turn off the built in soundcard, NIC, 1934 port and other options like that.

[Surf314]

You should see that option unless ASUS's manual is lying to me lol. Its mentioned on pg 3-18 and 3-19(3.5.4 On Board Device Configuration) of the manual. Should be in the same area of the BIOS where you can turn off the built in soundcard, NIC, 1934 port and other options like that.

Yea that is the section, I will try to turn off marvell sata like the forums said and see what happens. Worst comes to worse it won't boot and I will have to go into bios again.

Also I am having a RAM issue  :'(

But my computer works great as is, it just could be better.

[[fr31ns]Karrde]

Dumb question, but you didn't try to change something from ATA to AHCI on the HD or other device did you?

[Surf314]

No

Also turning off esata marvell fixed it.