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Long time in Post to find H/Drive.

global-killer

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Posted January 12, 2012 at 6:52PM

Just built a new comp some new bits some old.

The Hard Drive is an old bit with M/Board New.Board is an AsRock P5B-DE

Got a problem never encountered before: On power up it seems to be taking between 1-2 min to find the hard drive on post.

Once the comp is running and if I do a soft reset it finds H/Drive straight away with no delay.

Have upgraded Bios to latest and done a clear CMOS several times in case prob is in bios.

In the old days I know boards used to do a RAM check which took a bit of time but this method on pre post was stopped quite a few years ago so unlikley to be the cause.

Anyone else had a prob like this.....?

Many Thanks.

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Strawballs

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Posted January 12, 2012 at 7:54PM

It could be the drive on it's way out.

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Zeppelyn

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Posted January 12, 2012 at 8:11PM

As Strawballs says its probably the drive is failing, this has been the reason whenever I've encountered this problem. Try a newer drive to test the board with but odds on its the hard drive.

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