Windows Xp Boots Slow

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nethawk wrote:

> When i boot up Xp it takes about 3-4 minutes before it took less than
> 1 minute i noticed my hard drive is running in PIO mode ive tried alot
> of fixes but my hard drive is still in PIO mode,ive tried uninstalling
> the channel,editing the registry and changing the atapi.sys file to
> the one from
> sp1, and nothing i dont know what else to do, oh and when the bios
> are loading the hard drive is in UDMA mode 5 ive also run the feature
> tool from hitachi and it says that the hard drive is also in UDMA mode
> 5 but as soon as
> xp boots up it goes to PIO mode i seriously need help with this
>
> thx in advanced

If you have tried everything to get your drive into the proper mode and
it won't go, you have hardware problems. Test the drive with a
diagnostic utility downloaded from the drive mftr.'s website. Usually
you will make either a bootable floppy or cd-r. Boot with the media you
created and do a thorough test. If the drive tests OK, then the problem
will be on the motherboard. Other things to test:

1. Reseat the ribbon cable on both ends.

2. Swap out the ribbon cable with a known-working one, making sure it is
the correct type for your drive; i.e., not a 40-wire one if you really
need an 80-wire one.

3. Do the hard drive diagnostic test.

4. You can try a motherboard test, but another way is to attach a
different, known-working drive or to attach your original drive to a
different computer. If your original drive works fine in the other
computer, you know it's the m/b that is at fault.

A lot of hardware testing depends on having extra parts and/or computers
available. If you don't have this, take the machine to a professional
computer repair shop (not your local equivalent of BigStoreUSA) where
they will have the necessary equipment.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

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Run C:\WINDOWS\system32\devmgmt.msc
Dbl-clk IDE...Controllers & Dbl-clk each entry till u
see where PIO is.
Now uninstall driver & reboot
Did this 1 month ago- piece of cake.

I seriously doubt tho that ur boot time will go back to
1min!

Search 4 my(ljl269) post within last week with 50% &
services in title.

HTH-Larry


On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:17:04 -0700, "nethawk"
<nethawk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

|When i boot up Xp it takes about 3-4 minutes before it took less than 1
|minute i noticed my hard drive is running in PIO mode ive tried alot of fixes
|but my hard drive is still in PIO mode,ive tried uninstalling the
|channel,editing the registry and changing the atapi.sys file to the one from
|sp1, and nothing i dont know what else to do, oh and when the bios are
|loading the hard drive is in UDMA mode 5 ive also run the feature tool from
|hitachi and it says that the hard drive is also in UDMA mode 5 but as soon as
|xp boots up it goes to PIO mode i seriously need help with this
|
|thx in advanced

Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general (More info?)

ive tried uninstalling the channel already it dont work the drive in PIO mode
is my OS drive

"Larry(LJL269)" wrote:

> Run C:\WINDOWS\system32\devmgmt.msc
> Dbl-clk IDE...Controllers & Dbl-clk each entry till u
> see where PIO is.
> Now uninstall driver & reboot
> Did this 1 month ago- piece of cake.
>
> I seriously doubt tho that ur boot time will go back to
> 1min!
>
> Search 4 my(ljl269) post within last week with 50% &
> services in title.
>
> HTH-Larry
>
>
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005 08:17:04 -0700, "nethawk"
> <nethawk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> |When i boot up Xp it takes about 3-4 minutes before it took less than 1
> |minute i noticed my hard drive is running in PIO mode ive tried alot of fixes
> |but my hard drive is still in PIO mode,ive tried uninstalling the
> |channel,editing the registry and changing the atapi.sys file to the one from
> |sp1, and nothing i dont know what else to do, oh and when the bios are
> |loading the hard drive is in UDMA mode 5 ive also run the feature tool from
> |hitachi and it says that the hard drive is also in UDMA mode 5 but as soon as
> |xp boots up it goes to PIO mode i seriously need help with this
> |
> |thx in advanced
>
> Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.
>