P5GD2 motherboard, friends computer. When it boots up it runs through IDE scan, obviously nothing found, because its a sata drive. Then it boots up find after that. But it wastes time, any idea how to make it skip this part??
Have you tried, in the BIOS, setting the type of each IDE device to "Not Installed" rather than "Auto"? (See p. 4-15 of the manual.)
ok, i just tried switching them all to not installed, but still did the scan ide,
I have never seen this before, not sure why it is doing it.
The SATA drive is probably running in an IDE mode. Look in Device Manager to see how the drive is configured there. WinXP does not natively support SATA controllers. Some motherboards have the option to configure as an IDE device for compatibility.
You may find an option, to turn off the onboard IDE controller in the system BIOS.
You can disable it, if there is really no IDE device attached, like DVD-ROM.Click Here on HowTo ask good Question to get best Help
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