packard bell boot up time

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Simon

hi,
just installed a new HD into a PC for a customer, it's all working fine
however on power up it sits looking for the primary HD master for nearly
a minute. I have checked in the bios and quick boot is set and ide0 is
set as the primary boot device and is detected fine. Ideas anyone ?
cheers
simon
 
Simon said:
hi,
just installed a new HD into a PC for a customer, it's all working fine
however on power up it sits looking for the primary HD master for nearly a
minute. I have checked in the bios and quick boot is set and ide0 is set
as the primary boot device and is detected fine. Ideas anyone ?
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Switch off quick boot, let it check the memory.
It could be struggling to do that.
 
beenthere said:
Switch off quick boot, let it check the memory.
It could be struggling to do that.
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Thanks for the reply, tried that but doesn't seem to make much
difference, the ram is fine as I had already run memtest on it when
trying to diagnose the problem with the last disk. Perhaps the ide
controller is going south ?
Here's the history:

1.called out to a PC that would blue screen on startup, but the error
wasn't displayed long enough to diagnose.

2.Tried all the usual, a boot from an xp cd, choosing the install option
then repair couldn't find an existing xp installation to repair.

3.Took the PC away to slave the drive to one of my machines to get the
data off, there wasn't any user data, directries all there though which
was strange.

4. Formatted disk, installed XP, got halfway through downloading updates
and got a blue screen error pointing to the hard disk. After a power off
the bios could detect the disk but not find a hard disk to boot off ?

5. New disk installed, XP on and patched and everything seems fine apart
from this detection problem.

Hope that long winded info can help someone point me in the right direction.
cheers simon.
 
Simon said:
Thanks for the reply, tried that but doesn't seem to make much difference,
the ram is fine as I had already run memtest on it when trying to diagnose
the problem with the last disk. Perhaps the ide controller is going south
?
Here's the history:

1.called out to a PC that would blue screen on startup, but the error
wasn't displayed long enough to diagnose.

2.Tried all the usual, a boot from an xp cd, choosing the install option
then repair couldn't find an existing xp installation to repair.

3.Took the PC away to slave the drive to one of my machines to get the
data off, there wasn't any user data, directries all there though which
was strange.

4. Formatted disk, installed XP, got halfway through downloading updates
and got a blue screen error pointing to the hard disk. After a power off
the bios could detect the disk but not find a hard disk to boot off ?

5. New disk installed, XP on and patched and everything seems fine apart
from this detection problem.

Hope that long winded info can help someone point me in the right
direction.
cheers simon.
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Don`t know if anything would show up in the Event Viewer\System
that might help.
Gotta be worth a look tho`
Or the System could be struggling to find a device, ie. CD\DVD drive,
PCI card or sommat, on its way to booting.
 
beenthere said:
Don`t know if anything would show up in the Event Viewer\System
that might help.
Gotta be worth a look tho`
Or the System could be struggling to find a device, ie. CD\DVD drive,
PCI card or sommat, on its way to booting.
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cheers mate, will go poking about :)
thanks again simon
 
Simon said:
Thanks for the reply, tried that but doesn't seem to make much
difference, the ram is fine as I had already run memtest on it when
trying to diagnose the problem with the last disk. Perhaps the ide
controller is going south ?
Here's the history:

1.called out to a PC that would blue screen on startup, but the error
wasn't displayed long enough to diagnose.

2.Tried all the usual, a boot from an xp cd, choosing the install option
then repair couldn't find an existing xp installation to repair.

3.Took the PC away to slave the drive to one of my machines to get the
data off, there wasn't any user data, directries all there though which
was strange.

4. Formatted disk, installed XP, got halfway through downloading updates
and got a blue screen error pointing to the hard disk. After a power off
the bios could detect the disk but not find a hard disk to boot off ?

5. New disk installed, XP on and patched and everything seems fine apart
from this detection problem.

Hope that long winded info can help someone point me in the right direction.
cheers simon.
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what jumper setting are you using?
Have you tried changing cables(80-40 conductor?)
 
JAD said:
BTW Packard Bell? How old is this machine?
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Hi,
CPU is 1.7g athlon, 700+mb ram, so it's on the verge of not worth them
paying for the repair to it. I'll try the cable, thanks for the tip.
simon
 
Simon said:
Hi,
CPU is 1.7g athlon, 700+mb ram, so it's on the verge of not worth them
paying for the repair to it. I'll try the cable, thanks for the tip.
simon
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Hmmm thats newer than I expected....I thought PAck Bell went bye bye long
before the 1 gig CPU's.


Good luck with that,,,,,does that have the VIA chipset? Try the newer 4in1
drivers from via.
 
Simon said:
just installed a new HD into a PC for a customer, it's all working
fine however on power up it sits looking for the primary HD master
for nearly a minute. I have checked in the bios and quick boot is set
and ide0 is set as the primary boot device and is detected fine.
Ideas anyone ?
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You can get that effect if the drive isnt jumpered correctly,
mostly with WDs which have a unique jumper config for a
single drive on the cable as opposed to master or slave of a pair.

You can also get it with the two drives on that cable dont coexist very well.

Can also be a bad cable.

Could be a flakey controller too given that the previous drive got wiped.

Could be bad caps on the motherboard too.
 
hi,
just installed a new HD into a PC for a customer, it's all working fine
however on power up it sits looking for the primary HD master for nearly
a minute. I have checked in the bios and quick boot is set and ide0 is
set as the primary boot device and is detected fine. Ideas anyone ?
cheers
simon
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The PB is trying to use Cable Select and you've hardjumped it as a master.
Set the drive to CS.
 
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