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From: fritz@friday.UUCP (Fritz Whittington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: slow starter
Keywords: booting, hard disk
Message-ID: <1416@friday.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 90 16:27:19 GMT
References: <906@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl> <1990Feb7.202324.22394@seri.gov> <912@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl>
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In article <912@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl> wsinpp@lso.win.tue.nl (Peter Peters) writes:
>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??
>
I've had this happen on machines where the CMOS ram (or the mother-
board configuration switches) were set to show that there was a second
hard disk (which isn't there, or isn't formatted).  Depending on the
BIOS, it may take even 2-3 minutes trying to get the second drive
to respond.  Check your setup, configuration jumpers on the disk
controller, or anything else that might be indicating that you have
more drives than you really have.
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