Slow boot caused by IDE/Sata Adapter??

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GamerMan101

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Hello everyone-

I am building my new PC, however, I would like to recycle a few components from the old PC. Specifically, the fans and the DVD/CD drive. The drive is IDE, however, I had an adapter lying around, a Serilel, if I remember correctly. The issue that I am experiencing is that when the adapter and the optical drive are connected to the motherboard, the BIOS boot time is greatly increased. Without the drive connected, the machine can go from no display, to posting and booted into desktop, in about 8 seconds. However, with the drive connected, it gets stuck on the BIOS post screen for about 30 seconds, and during that time it sounds like the drive is reading a disc, even when empty. Other than this, it works in the BIOS, but does NOT work in Windows.
I have already purchased a SATA DVD drive that is on its way now, however, there's like 4 days left until it gets here, and I would really like to install some <cringe> physical media applications.

The adapter looks like this:
at7max2-serillel.jpg


Here are the rest of the system specs:
ASRock B250M-HDV
Intel Core i5 7500
8GB of DDR4 RAM
EVGA GTX 1050Ti FTW
SanDisk SSD PLUS (boot drive)
Hitachi 1TB HDD (storage)
Windows 10 Pro 64bit

Thanks!
-Sam
 
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Viking2121
I have one of the HDD toasters, or well dual HDD Docking bays thats USB3, On my old AMD 990FX system, it would make the system insanely slow at boot up, I could never figure it out, Unplug it and sure it was fine.

I moved to a z77 system and I never had a slow boot up with it, and now I havd 2x 8TB drives in the same docking station on my x99 system and its perfect. I still never could figure it out on the my AMD system.

Though since yours is sata, I'd go and make sure that port is not included in the boot options in bios, It may fix the slow boot problem.
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I was going to say that IDE is incredibly old and slow and that it would be slowing your PC down if Windows 10 is booting off it, but I misread your post.

So, it spends a lot of extra time in the BIOS when its attached? But when you disconnect it, its much faster?

You probably need to manually change the boot order priority in your BIOS.

Its probably trying boot off the IDE drive first, recognizes it is not bootable, then tries the next drive.
 
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I have one of the HDD toasters, or well dual HDD Docking bays thats USB3, On my old AMD 990FX system, it would make the system insanely slow at boot up, I could never figure it out, Unplug it and sure it was fine.

I moved to a z77 system and I never had a slow boot up with it, and now I havd 2x 8TB drives in the same docking station on my x99 system and its perfect. I still never could figure it out on the my AMD system.

Though since yours is sata, I'd go and make sure that port is not included in the boot options in bios, It may fix the slow boot problem.
 
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