Weird SATA issue

CrayonMuncher

CrayonMuncher

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Not sure if I am just missing something but when the optical drive on sata 1 and my hard drive on sata 2, or vice versa, on my mobo when posting the system hangs on post then after a while continues with normal booting. This doesnt happen if the it is on, say, ports 1 and 3, anyone know why this is, it didnt use to do this, only thing i changed recently is i removed my old IDE drive.
Thanks
 
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Did you install Windows on a Serial ATA hard drive with another hard drive attached? I have noticed for some reason that Windows begins to get bugs when two hard drives are present when Windows is installed and then one is removed. I only install Windows with one hard drive attached then add other hard drives after the installation is complete.
 
@ 2048Megabytes

That may be the problem i may have installed it with two hard drives on then removed the IDE drive, which was a slave. But i tried plugging it back it and it made no difference.

@ StrangleHold

It is set to boot the hard drive first. It isnt so much that it cant find the boot device it is just when it posts and detects the various drives attached. When plugged into sata 1 and 2, or sata 3 and 4 (these are the ports next to each other) it hangs then after 10 secs it detects the drives and boots normally. if it is plugged into the ports opposite each other, say sata 1 and and 3 it detects the drives quick then boots.

Either way once booted it seems to perform normally, it just that 10 secs or so slow down. It just didnt do it before i removed the ide drive, also it doesnt seem to do it with just one device plugged in. I tried taking the cmos battery out and so on with no difference, i am running the latest bios, I suppose it may be a bios issue, or just the windows issue mentioned above, any ideas?
 
The only fix I know of is to do a re-install of Windows without the extra hard drive plugged in. I am guessing you do not want to do that.
 
2048Megabytes said:
The only fix I know of is to do a re-install of Windows without the extra hard drive plugged in. I am guessing you do not want to do that.
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Nah it wouldnt be worth it as it boots fine on the when i plug it into another port and even when i dont it just hangs for like 10 secs before booting normally, I will change it over when i have to, as inevitably i will, re-install windows.
Just leave it for now me thinks.
Thanks all
 
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