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Slow startup at POST/BIOS screen
BillieTheBot
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Hello all, 2 problems in as many days. This morning my HDD failed. Luckily plugging it into another SATA port on the motherboard got it working again (weirdly). Now however the boot up at POST/BIOS is taking forever. Before it would take a couple of seconds but now it's close to a minute.
At first I thought it was because the failure of the drive was making the PC try and boot off other drives first (I have a second internal drive for my software/photos/e.t.c.) so I ensured the PC is set to attempt boot in the following order
Windows Drive (C:/)
Secondary Drive
CD-ROM
Floppy
Nothing has changed from when I installed the second drive some months ago except I moved CD-ROM and Floppy further down the list.
My questions are, firstly what caused the SATA port to fail and how do I fix it? Secondly, how do I get the speed at POST back to normal. I thought it might have been the disk transfer rates but I've just finished some diagnostics and copying some files and the transfers seem fine.
At first I thought it was because the failure of the drive was making the PC try and boot off other drives first (I have a second internal drive for my software/photos/e.t.c.) so I ensured the PC is set to attempt boot in the following order
Windows Drive (C:/)
Secondary Drive
CD-ROM
Floppy
Nothing has changed from when I installed the second drive some months ago except I moved CD-ROM and Floppy further down the list.
My questions are, firstly what caused the SATA port to fail and how do I fix it? Secondly, how do I get the speed at POST back to normal. I thought it might have been the disk transfer rates but I've just finished some diagnostics and copying some files and the transfers seem fine.
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I forgot to mention, the DVD writer won't work now either, it's completely dead. No power to it.
Tried swapping the cables with the HDD, the HDD works still but the DVD refuses to play ball. Argh.