weird boot problem

[Seedler]

My new pc's been running smoothly for the last month.

Today when I woke up and turned on my comp, I got a "searching for IDE Devices" message. Then, I get a list of my harddrives and CD/DVD drives. I pressed f8 and entered the boot menu, and from there I booted from my hard drive and everything was fine.

Now EVERY TIME when I turn on the comp, I have to manually press f8 and then select my hard drive, and I've been trying and failing to fix the problem. Everything is fine after boot, but this really is VERY irritating.

Any ideas?

[Darth Sushi]

Go into your bios and check the boot priority sequence. Make sure your HD is listed.

[Seedler]

My HD is 1st under boot priority, and the problem still persists...

[maebach]

master/slave?

its a guesss

[peat moss]

So whats different ? Did you update drivers or ? Just a thought but f8 and hit last known good config .

[Seedler]

Okay, I just reformatted and reset my BIOS, and omg I still have to hit f8 to go in. And no my HD config is set to master, so I'm running out of ideas...

[peat moss]

Fixmbr or fixboot ? Using the Recovery Console:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixmbr.mspx

It could be many things tho bad memory , heat issues , corrupted driver or virus .

[Seedler]

Fixmbr or fixboot ? Using the Recovery Console:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixmbr.mspx

It could be many things tho bad memory , heat issues , corrupted driver or virus .

Virus=not possible because of reformatting
corrupted drivers=not possible because of reformatting
heat issues=cpu, mem, vid card all running at optimal temps
bad memory? I donno, maybe that's it?:wacko:

My boot time before was 52 secs, now it's 2 min 12 secs dammit:angry:

[peat moss]

Fixmbr or fixboot ? Using the Recovery Console:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/bootcons_fixmbr.mspx

It could be many things tho bad memory , heat issues , corrupted driver or virus .

Virus=not possible because of reformatting
corrupted drivers=not possible because of reformatting
heat issues=cpu, mem, vid card all running at optimal temps
bad memory? I donno, maybe that's it?:wacko:

My boot time before was 52 secs, now it's 2 min 12 secs dammit:angry:


Virus ? Yes there are virus that attack the bios .
Heat ?
Drivers ? Corrupted ?

Memory ? Memtester ? :http://www.memtest86.com/

I'm just trying to help and was thinking what I would try . :)

What does msconfig tell you about the start up ? Two min is a long time even with an antivirus and third party firewall .

[tkpro]

Don't know if its the same issue, however I too had a boot problem ( it would take 7-8 minutes to boot to windows. It drove me crazy....... I then remembered that I just connected usb card reader. it was trying to boot from all 5 slots in reader, I dissconnected all usb connections from back of machine. Problem Gone
Don't think it helps you but maybe someone else

Good Luck

[clocker]

Don't know if its the same issue, however I too had a boot problem ( it would take 7-8 minutes to boot to windows. It drove me crazy....... I then remembered that I just connected usb card reader. it was trying to boot from all 5 slots in reader, I dissconnected all usb connections from back of machine. Problem Gone
Don't think it helps you but maybe someone else

Good Luck
After loading Windows I go back into BIOS and set the HDD as the first boot device and disable all other options (including "Boot other device").
That will solve your USB problem, tkpro.