Dean,

I have worked with computers for 22 years.  I have worked with IDE devices
since inception.  I had THE EXACT SAME PROBLEM with my system at work,
including the WD hard drive (the system itself was a Gateway E-1200).  Would
you believe that if you jumper the sucker as a master that it tells the IDE
controller to expect to see a slave, and will literally wait for two minutes
trying to find one before giving up and booting the system.  I had to be
told this by another technician too.  My drive has no jumpers at all on it
now, and it boots perfectly.  Hope this helps.

Kyle

From: "Dr. Dean Kukral" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 3:17 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Slow windows loading


Recently I modified my 450 PIII by doing a clean install of
Windows 98 onto a WD 30Gb disk drive.  I also replaced
my modem with a USR ISA Faxmodem and my sound
card with a Soundblaster Live X-Gamer.  I kept my Viper
770 (TNT2 with TNT drivers).

Now, when I boot up, I get to the place where the mb
says "Searching for boot record from IDE-0..OK"
and then the computer takes a nap for two to ten
minutes.  Eventually Windows loads and there
are no other symptoms of anything wrong.

It sounds like the computer is having trouble reading
the windows loader, but I have performed a scandisk
twice with nothing wrong detected...

Anybody have any ideas?

This is my wife's computer (the old one worked great),
so, naturally, I get, "If you are such a great computer
genius, why can't you fix this??"  :(   (She doesn't use
those Exact words, but you get the picture!)

TIA

Dean Kukral   [log in to unmask]

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