Slow boot-up

[Mackem]

Any tips on how to speed up the booting process.

Also for some reason my CD-ROM and my CDRW are recognised as E and F drives. Is this because they are master and slave on the secondary IDE channel? The D drive shows up in `my computer`. Is that the slave on the primary IDE? Even though there`s nothing connected to this.

Got no sound ATM either. Any ideas? Thanks in advance

This is my first build btw.

Mackem

[foghat46]

Hi Mackem

Here's an easy way to get started. Go to www.PCPitstop.com and run a test on your system, and use the results to see where to start. They will give tips and suggestions on what to do, and we'll help you, too.

[Cricket]

Originally posted by Mackem Any tips on how to speed up the booting process.

What's your system specs and what operating system are you using? Does the motherboard have RAID? What about an on-board NIC (Network Interface Card)?

Originally posted by Mackem Also for some reason my CD-ROM and my CDRW are recognised as E and F drives. Is this because they are master and slave on the secondary IDE channel? The D drive shows up in `my computer`. Is that the slave on the primary IDE? Even though there`s nothing connected to this.

Do you have only one hard drive? Is it partitioned? Each partition will be assigned a drive letter.

Originally posted by Mackem Got no sound ATM either. Any ideas? Thanks in advance

Are you using on-board sound or a separate sound card?

Cricket

[ktkendall]

Does your BIOS hae quick boot enabled? And set any ide drives that do not actually have a drive connected to them to none in the bios ide configuration.