> I recently bought a 13 GB Hard Drive from a friend, since I needed a cheap
> replacement to my old HD, and now, when the computer boots up and
> begins the
> detections of the HD and CD-ROM drives, it takes close to half a
> second for
> the
> computer to detect the Hard drive. I went into the BIOS and defined the
> settings for the HD, so it wouldn't have to auto detect the settings
> every time, unfortunately, this didn't help much. Does anyone
> have any clue
> what is wrong and where I could find some information on this
> problem? Thanks

        I doubt you mean half a second, because that would be faster then average,
perhaps you mean half a minute? Anyways, chances are your BIOS has been set
to normal post versus fast post, see if you can find that setting. TTYL

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