I tried changing the jumper setting. For the master end of the UDMA cable (black) to the hard drive. Jumper set to MASTER position. Still a very slow auto deTection. The AMI BIOS has to be set to a sub-routine that just checks for IDE devices. Still takes a long, long time to detect it. Anything further that I could do? Visit our website regularly for FAQs, articles, how-to's, tech tips and much more http://freepctech.com