Looong boot time in SP2.....

[Ray]

I think I have narrowed it down to a device problem. Upon going into event
viewer I see the error stating the following "\Device\Ide\IdePort1\ , did
not respond within the timeout period." This appears to be causing my long
boot up time of almost 2 minutes. What the heck does this mean. Is there a
setting (bios or registry) I can change that will eliminate this timeout
period and just boot
the damn machine up??


Thanks in advance,

ray


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P4 1.9 GHZ
512 MB DDR Dual Channel Ram
Asus P4P800 deluxe
Win Xp Pro SP2
Nvidia Gforce 128 MB 5200
Dual WD 200 GB SE HDD

 

[OShah]

I think I have narrowed it down to a device problem. Upon going into
event viewer I see the error stating the following
"\Device\Ide\IdePort1\ , did not respond within the timeout period."
This appears to be causing my long boot up time of almost 2 minutes.
What the heck does this mean. Is there a setting (bios or registry) I
can change that will eliminate this timeout period and just boot
the damn machine up??


Thanks in advance,

ray

Something is wrong with the device plugged into the Secondary IDE
controller. It could be anything from a poorly written disk/ide driver, a
bios problem, faulty cable, all the way up to an imminent Drive crash.
Before continuing, I strongly suggest backing up your data ASAP.

The error message shows that the drive is taking an unusually long time to
start up (are you hearing any long wheezing/clicking sounds?). You should
run Disk diagnostic software on the drives connected to the 2nd IDE to
ensure the drive is correctly working. If it's a CD drive, eject the CD.

To fix the problem, you can remove the hardware in the 2nd IDE, or disable
the controller in the bios. If WinXP detected a problem with the IDE, it
may switch off DMA for that controller, meaning sloooooooow ide accesses.

The following article may be relevant to your problem
"IDE ATA and ATAPI Disks Use PIO Mode After Multiple Time-Out or CRC
Errors Occur" http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=817472

"How to Troubleshoot Error Messages About Event ID 9 and Event ID 11"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314093
(describes SCSI, but some also applies to IDE).



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oshah
Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Error Reporting -> Choose Programs
-> Do not report errors for these programs:

Acrobat.exe
waol.exe

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