Hi Mark, > This PC (XP): 8 minutes to boot. Sometimes it takes 3 boots > before it starts up, because it hangs twice (almost at the > end of booting).
I had that problem on three different PCs now. It always was the DMA mode. For some reasons Windows believed the disk wasn't able to do DMA and fall back to PIO which is incredibly slow. Check your controller if it is using PIO if so fix it :-) (Send me a private mail if you need with that.) -- Kind regards Raymund ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.42 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
