Quote Originally Posted by Nicognito View Post
when I had XP installed and it is that boot time is very long:
In XP it took 60-120 s after bios was read and initiated until I got to the logon screen
This is probably IDE device detection. Go to the IDE configuration screen and set all your empty slots to Not Installed, then set the detect time to the lowest value you're sure will allow spin-up and head load (I use 5 seconds). This should dramatically reduce your boot time.