Slow boot

[woel]

Hi!

I'm having troubles with nforce drivers. With some drivers windows will not start and with some windows startup is really slow. I've tried google to find an answer. Somwhere I read that it was fixed by turning ncq off. Any ideas?

/L

[Guru]

Slow boot usualy means your hd(s) are runing in pio mode

[Rakido]

hi,

check this:

I've managed to find the solution so to help anyone else with the same problem, this is it. The reason my (and numerous others I found after doing lots of research) took an age to boot is down to the Nvidia Sata controller driver enabling NCQ on my hard drives. Even though my Hard drives are NCQ compatible, it is a well known issue with the Nvidia driver.

To prevent slow boot up and possible data corruption, just turn off NCQ in the driver properties in device manager.

Go to device manager, look for the SCSI and RAID controller entry and double click the NVIDIA nForce4 Serial RAID Controller, click the Primary Channel tab and untick Enable Command Queuing. If you have a RAID setup, do the same on the Secondary Channel and then reboot.

Since I did this, I've had no boot up issues and no event 51 errors in event viewer.

I hope this helps anyone with the same problem!

found somewhere on Anandtech's forums,


Rakido

[woel]

Yes I found that post. That's what I have tried and it works. But isn't ncq supposed to be good. I don't like missing out on that feature.

[ayoub_ibrahim]

for the home user ncq confers no performance advantage.

[woel]

for the home user ncq confers no performance advantage.

Ok, nice to hear that.