Originally Posted by
Chewie UK
XP tries to detect new IDE devices on every boot. If there's no device in any of the locations, it'll just wait until it decides nothing is going to reply.
If you have empty locations on your IDE channels...
Locate the IDE controllers entry in device manager and expand the tree by clicking the + next to the entry.
Double-click Primary IDE Channel and click the Advanced Settings tab.
Select None in the drop down box labelled Device Type for any channels where you have no device - it'll say Not Applicable in the box labelled Current Transfer Mode if there's no device present.
Do the same for Secondary IDE Channel.
Thanks for the help Chewie though this board only has 1 IDE channel (primary) and i have 2 devices attached to it (cdrw and dvdrw) so i can't disable them.
@limesqueezer
i've tryed already msconfig but with no success...
Going to keep searching
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