Boot time with P5W DH.. Ridiculous >.>

[crspyjohn]

New-b rocks! You made my computer boot faster. Now what to do with that extra 10 secounds :-)

10secs * 2 * 356 = 118.666 minutes saved a year! ( i normally reboot/turn on once or twice a day)

[therat]

It seems this principle must apply to all motherboards. I have a question tho:

Do I have my hard drives plugged in wrong?

As can be seen from my Device Manager, I have 3 Primary IDE channels and 3 Secondary Channels.

My Main drive is Master on the second Primary IDE channel (UDMA5). My second drive is Master on the second Secondary IDE Channel (UDMA5). My DVD-RW is Master on the third Primary IDE Channel (UDMA4) and my DVDROM is Slave on the third IDE Channel (UDMA2).

Just wondering why the shop set the two drives up that way and why they aren't all using the Primary IDE channels?

Would it make the second drive faster?

cheers

[cambrian]

woah, new-b, you're awesome. I have a gigabyte ds3 but your method works! 5-fold reduction in booting time. Thanks!

[NoSinder]

woah, new-b, you're awesome. I have a gigabyte ds3 but your method works! 5-fold reduction in booting time. Thanks!

What week is ur E6400? Mine takes 1.4375 volts to get it prime stable at 3.2ghz. Also, how long did you prime for? Thanks in advance.

[cambrian]

What week is ur E6400? Mine takes 1.4375 volts to get it prime stable at 3.2ghz. Also, how long did you prime for? Thanks in advance.

Hi NoSinder,

I should actually update my sig: My E6400 is a week 25. And the RAM I'm using currently is actually the Patriot 5300 LLK. It's way better than the HZ. I think the HZ is way too overhyped. I was able to overclock the patriot to 960 using 1.9V no problems. And it only costs a fraction of the price of the HZ. I was using the famous Asus P5B Deluxe for a while too but I had major problems with that board. I would require higher voltage and it wasn't even prime stable of 3 hours. I tried optimize all settings in the bios but to no avail. I believe the P5B deluxe's bios is still immature.

NOw I switched back to my old trusty DS3 and dual prime large FFT's stable for 12+ hours under 1.36 volts. Now the key to overclocking the DS3 is not to leave voltage settings at default or "normal". Leaving it at normal will cause it to upvoltage when you increase your FSB. I learned this the hard way after failing prime multiple times. Set everything to 0.1+ volt and you're set.

[new-b]

It seems this principle must apply to all motherboards. I have a question tho:

Do I have my hard drives plugged in wrong?

As can be seen from my Device Manager, I have 3 Primary IDE channels and 3 Secondary Channels.

My Main drive is Master on the second Primary IDE channel (UDMA5). My second drive is Master on the second Secondary IDE Channel (UDMA5). My DVD-RW is Master on the third Primary IDE Channel (UDMA4) and my DVDROM is Slave on the third IDE Channel (UDMA2).

Just wondering why the shop set the two drives up that way and why they aren't all using the Primary IDE channels?

Would it make the second drive faster?

cheers

I think it has something to do with which sata port ya use.....I have two HDD's, one is master on a primary and the other is slave on a secondary (even though nothing is attached as master)