very long boot
This is a discussion about very long boot in the Windows Hardware category; Hello, since I've Installed a dvd-rom with a holywood+, win2k is very slow to boot ( 5 minutes ) any idea ? thanks for your replies
Hello,
since I've Installed a dvd-rom with a holywood+, win2k is very slow to boot ( 5 minutes )
any idea ?
thanks for your replies
since I've Installed a dvd-rom with a holywood+, win2k is very slow to boot ( 5 minutes )
any idea ?
thanks for your replies
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Is your DVD slave to your HD?

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no my dvd is master on the second ide
PS : everything works fine under windows 98
PS : everything works fine under windows 98
Hmm... Could we be looking at an IRQ conflict here to..? I mean, since it wrkin in 98. Or maybe some driver is not 100% Win2k compatible.
Which bus speed are you running? When i switches from 66Mhz -> 83Mhz I experienced the same slow bootup. After disabling dma on my harddisks the bootup times went back to normal again.