Just one question: did you connected your CDROM and Zip drive on ATA66
channel and used 80pin IDE cable for them? If so, please use a "normal"
40pin IDE cable. From my experience, use 80pin cable for slow IDE devices
such as CDROM will mostly work, but the boot time would be greatly
increased.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Rivenbark" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 7:01 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Slow Boot following Upgrade


> Just upgraded a system to an Asus A7V motherboard w/ an AMD Thunderbird
> 900MHz CPU (128MB PC100 SDRAM).
> Everything seemed to work fine except that the boot up process was
> incredibly slow.  Once in the OS (Win98 first Ed), it was fine.
>
> Config:
> Two Maxtor 20 + GB IDE Hard Drives on Primary IDE Channel 1
> One CD-ROM drive and one Zip-100 Drive on Secondary IDE Channel 2
>
> (There are 4 IDE channels on this board)
>
>

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