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From: wsinpp@lso.win.tue.nl (Peter Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: slow starter
Keywords: booting, hard disk
Message-ID: <912@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl>
Date: 8 Feb 90 09:57:27 GMT
References: <906@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl> <1990Feb7.202324.22394@seri.gov>
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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> marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) writes :
>
> [stuff deleted]
>
> I suspect the original disk that was slow to start wasn't getting
> enough power to spin it up to speed quickly.  It took about 15 seconds
> to get started.
> 
> Don't know if this helps, but your symptoms sounded just like mine.
> --

To clarify my problem I posted this answer to the group and not directly
to Marshall, this should be a better description of the problem I reported
before. Any help is still very welcome....
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Thanks for your reply Marshall. A weak power supply sure is a
possibility, although I suspect thats NOT the trouble in my machine.
First of all the hard disk (which is a ST238, NOT a 138 as I stated before)
is the only expansion I have. Second : even if the disk is up to speed
the system starts slow.

I'm talking about real slooow starting. I'll be more specific :

After power on the machine starts to do its thing until the hard-disk
bios message is displayed. After that all is silent for 30-40 seconds
in which nothing seems to happen (no disk access that for sure). When
that time has passed the system continues to boot (reading stuff from
disk and bringing itself up).
This sequence happens also when re-booting with ctrl-alt-del, so it's
not a power-on problem, ergo :  even if the disk is up to speed the
problem occurrs. I suspect it's something in the bios-extension of the
hard disk, but I'm not sure.  What the hell can take 30-40 seconds??

			Peter.

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