Running the same board, but with a Duron 600@ 950Mhz. No big delays, power to OS in about 18 seconds. system is as follows : KT7 RAID 256MB Siemens CAS2 133mhz 30.7GB IBM 75GXP ATA100 Voodoo3 3000AGP Sony Spressa 10X4X32 D-Link DFE-530 Have you tried going into the High point Bios (ctrl-h) and auto detecting the drive again? Are the jumpers set correctly as master, or is it defaulting to Cable select? Cheers Gareth > Brand new system, just built it. > Abit KT7 RAID > 1Gig Thunderbird > 256M pc133 Crucial RAM > 30G WD Caviar HD > > During bootup, the DOS screen IDE channels 1&2 go so fast I can barely see > it (When it identifies my drives.) > Then, it goes to the RAID portion(IDE 3&4). This takes an extremely long > time, 30 seconds or more. It makes you think it is locked up. > It does correctly identify my HD on IDE 3 master, and list the other three > as not installed. > That is all I have at this time. I only got the RAID version for the ATA100 > to go with my WD Caviar. > After this, another DOS screen comes up with "verifying DMI Pool". This take > about the same length of time. > With a 1Gig Tbird, is this delay normal? I had thought it would boot up much > faster. > Once it get's past DMI Pool, all is fast. Win98SE come up faster than WinME > ever did on old system. > > Also, here is a TRUE story regarding my brand new system: FTL > http://www.cpu-central.com/wwwboard/msg.asp?id=33531 The NOSPIN Group is now offering Free PC Tech support at our newest website: http://freepctech.com