SwedenXP Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 Hello ladies and gentlemen - first time for me in this subforum, but I just finished putting mynew rig together and I have a performance question.Should booting from a SATA drive into XP Pro take significant longer time than booting froma IDE drive?Setup:Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe nForce 570 SLI MCP 4DDR2-DIMM 3PCI 4PCIe SATA Raid AudioDUAL GB-LAN Firewire Socket AM2 ATXAMD Athlon64 X2 Dual-Core 6000+ 3.0GHz 2x1MB Boxed Socket AM22 * Seagate Barracuda ST3320620AS 7200.10 320GB 7200rpm 16MB cache SATA22 * 1 GB MemoryAsus Extreme GeForce 7600GS SILENT 512MB DDR2 TV-out HDTV DVI RETAIL PCI ExpressSamsung SH-S203B Dual-Layer DVD +RW/R -RW/R 20X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 20X DVD-R6X DVD-RW 48X CDR 32X CDRW BLACK bulk S-ATAThanx in advance/ SwedenXP B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmaugyGrrr Posted September 10, 2007 Share Posted September 10, 2007 (edited) Should booting from a SATA drive into XP Pro take significant longer time than booting from an IDE drive?Quick answer: no.Longer answer: No. Check your drivers are up to date. A quick "up to date OR not up to date" method is to use the free scan of driveragent.com. Sometimes the drivers provided by the motherboard manufacturer aren't the latest ones available - sometimes it's better to go to the maker of the individual chips or chipset. Edited September 10, 2007 by SmaugyGrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedenXP Posted September 10, 2007 Author Share Posted September 10, 2007 Looks nice - but at $29.95 (US) it should...Is there a free solution to this problem?/ SwedenXP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 whats a long time? how many bars go across the screen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedenXP Posted September 11, 2007 Author Share Posted September 11, 2007 (edited) @ripken204 - thats a valid question!7 bars across the screen, time from boot to 7 bars end is 60 s.After that it takes another 80 s until WinXP is ready to be used.It´s really these 80 s that annoys me most - the complete bootwas quicker on my old machine.There is no firewall installed (yet), so that is not the problem./ SwedenXP Edited September 11, 2007 by SwedenXP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted September 11, 2007 Share Posted September 11, 2007 It must be a driver problem, or not well-set BIOS.Do you have those 2 Seagates in RAID and if so, is every thing set well in the BIOS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 i have like 5 bars with a quad core and 4gb of ram. it must be a driver problem for me. i also have most of my useless bios crap disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycste Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 ive seen an old p3 boot into windows faster then any other rig ive ever seen. like 10seconds.my current setup takes forever like over a min. its truly re tarded.tried bootvis that doesnt seem to even work nowadays as i never get the second popup and not sure if it does anythingtrying that free scanner now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 i honestly could care less about my boot time because as soon as i am in windows, my comp pwns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 (edited) My machine boots pretty quick...but I've never worried so much about it since I don't reboot that often (usually once a month for the routine patches or if there is a power outage longer than my UPS can run on batteries).BUT...another thing I would check is services. The 80s wait is probably a service hanging when it tries to start. If you check the System Log in the Event Viewer right after bootup I bet there'll be a message about a service that hung trying to start. Windows Desktop Search 3.0 was doing this to me for a while. If it's not a critical service you can disable it and reboot to see if the problem is fixed.As for the 60s/7 bars on the first part...that's probably driver related. Edited September 12, 2007 by nmX.Memnoch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedenXP Posted September 12, 2007 Author Share Posted September 12, 2007 Gentlemen!Thanks for the tips. I will check it out.At the moment everything is a little bit shaky.../ SwedenXP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycste Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 (edited) um where is the systemlog located? cuz once you start and keep installing programs and drivers boot times just keep geting much worse when they should get faster since everythign is supposed to be found correctly.i ran this program drive agent and this was found Disk Drives ST3250823AS 2001.07.01 ST3200826AS 2001.07.01 Display adapters NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS 2007.06.29 2007.06.29 DVD/CD-ROM drives AXV CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device 2001.07.01 LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-851S 2001.07.01 IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers Intel® ICH8 2 port Serial ATA Storage Controller - 2825 2006.04.10 Intel® ICH8 4 port Serial ATA Storage Controller - 2820 2006.04.10 Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller 2001.07.01 2007.07.05 Keyboards Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard 2001.07.01 Mice and other pointing devices Microsoft USB Wheel Mouse Optical 2001.07.01 2005.12.01 Monitors Plug and Play Monitor 2001.06.06 Network adapters Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller 2006.09.18 2007.06.26 Ports Communications Port (COM1) 2001.07.01 Printer Port (LPT1) 2001.07.01 Processors Intel® Core(tm)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz n/a Sound, video and game controllers Realtek High Definition Audio 2006.07.24 2007.07.18 System Devices Intel® P965/G965/G35 PCI Express Root Port - 29A1 2007.02.06 Intel® P965/G965/G35 Processor to I/O Controller - 29A0 2007.02.06 Intel® ICH8 Family PCI Express Root Port 5 - 2847 2006.05.16 Intel® ICH8 Family PCI Express Root Port 4 - 2845 2006.05.16 Intel® ICH8 Family PCI Express Root Port 1 - 283F 2006.05.16 Intel® ICH8 Family SMBus Controller - 283E 2006.04.10 Intel® ICH8/ICH8R Family LPC Interface Controller - 2810 2006.05.16 Universal Serial Bus controllers Intel® ICH8 Family USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 283A 2006.04.10 Intel® ICH8 Family USB2 Enhanced Host Controller - 2836 2006.04.10 Intel® ICH8 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2835 2006.04.10 Intel® ICH8 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2834 2006.04.10 Intel® ICH8 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2832 2006.04.10 Intel® ICH8 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2831 2006.04.10 Intel® ICH8 Family USB Universal Host Controller - 2830 2006.04.10the file is Microsoft Office Document Imaging i cannot upload it here and done know how to convert it Edited September 12, 2007 by puntoMX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted September 12, 2007 Share Posted September 12, 2007 um where is the systemlog located? Right click on My Computer and choose Manage. Now go to Computer Management (Local) > System Tools > Event Viewer > System. There are two other main event logs as well...Application and Security. IE7 adds another one, PowerShell adds one and Office 2007 adds two more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nycste Posted September 13, 2007 Share Posted September 13, 2007 um where is the systemlog located? Right click on My Computer and choose Manage. Now go to Computer Management (Local) > System Tools > Event Viewer > System. There are two other main event logs as well...Application and Security. IE7 adds another one, PowerShell adds one and Office 2007 adds two more.eww lots of warnings and errors on mine haha. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwedenXP Posted September 13, 2007 Author Share Posted September 13, 2007 Finally... got it working!Method - this time I did not include any chipset or storagedriversin the install - afterwards I added what I needed... after tryinga lot of combinations of drivers...Usually I use nLite...Thanx for all the tips!/ SwedenXP - feels nice when everthings works just fine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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