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05-18-2004, 10:43 PM
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| Harddrive not recognized on boot sometimes? Hi everyone, I installed everything correctly with windows xp professional and SATA drivers but for some reason my ASUS A7N8X deluxe has problems finding it on boot. It will pause for a bit at the SATA silicon image screen an say primary channel: drive not found. I restart my computer then it works. I have my drive seq as follow.... 1.floppy 2.scsi 3.cd-rom . Just curious why this would happen. Thanks, Chris |
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05-19-2004, 09:06 AM
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| The problem likely is caused by the drive taking time to spin up to speed. If your boot sequence reached the controller, but the drive hasn't fully spun up to speed at that point, the controller will have problems accessing it. |
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05-19-2004, 01:02 PM
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| In many BIOSes you can specify an IDE wait time. I'm not sure if this will work with SATA drives but you might want to try it and find out. It's often labelled "Delay on IDE".
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05-19-2004, 09:13 PM
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Do you know how I can fix that? | |
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05-19-2004, 09:16 PM
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 The only thing you can do is add a wait time like I suggested. | |
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