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orb36O · 05-23-2003, 12:32 PM

In BIOS

If you go into standard CMOS setup (or something similar) you should see a list of drives (primary master, secondary master) if they say auto next to them, every time your computer it will auto detect each drive, if you have a drive there, it will take an extra 2 seconds to detect it and set it up, but if you are missing a drive, it will examine the slot for up to 6 seconds. If you know how to auto set up (in mine, you select the drive slot and press enter) then they are 'hard-coded' into the BIOS and it will assume the same hardware on each IDE channel every bootup... result, no time auto detecting! you save about 10 seconds... If you don't have a drive installed on a channel, select None...

If that was confusing, it wasn't meant to be...

05-23-2003, 12:32 PM	#8 (permalink)
orb36O x4841434B4552 Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Strongbadia Posts: 254	In BIOS If you go into standard CMOS setup (or something similar) you should see a list of drives (primary master, secondary master) if they say auto next to them, every time your computer it will auto detect each drive, if you have a drive there, it will take an extra 2 seconds to detect it and set it up, but if you are missing a drive, it will examine the slot for up to 6 seconds. If you know how to auto set up (in mine, you select the drive slot and press enter) then they are 'hard-coded' into the BIOS and it will assume the same hardware on each IDE channel every bootup... result, no time auto detecting! you save about 10 seconds... If you don't have a drive installed on a channel, select None... If that was confusing, it wasn't meant to be... __________________ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s+:-- a--- C++++ UL++ P+ L++ E W++ N-- o-- K- w++ O- M-- V- PS-- PE++ Y PGP t+ 5- X- R !tv b++ DI+++ D+ G e h !r z? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Decode Here Used to have a sig, but the friggin' sites don't allow remote linking...