Windows 7 full AHCI mode causing slow startup?

[Nilsb7]

Hellooooo peopluuh

My beautifull litlle PC is having startup problems! oh noes! :O

Well, I got only SATA drives, so I changed some registry value (yea i did that after windows install, my bad) and changed all Bios option that had anything to do with IDE or so to AHCI. It's runnning like that for about 2 months, no changes in hardware or whatever, but what a noticed lately is that the drive usage indicator (well you know that thing on the front panel of the pc right?) takes about 30 seconds to start up/to start accessing the drive (you can hear it as well). So the PC kind of does simply nothing for those whole 30 seconds, I just think that part should be skipped

Well other things you might need to know, I have noguiboot enabled and that's it.
I hope there are some good AHCI/SATA junkies out here that can help me

signed,
PACMAAAAAAAAN
aka
Nilsb7


btw, just look for my computer specs in my profile, got them all updated.



To not spam this forum with threads, I've got 2 monitors hooked up, working fine.
But... everytime my desktop background changes I get laaaaaaaaaaaaag, in like everything, when watching a movie, or playing counter strike, it's just annoying so it would be great of you got some solution

 

[Nilsb7]

Aannyyoonnee??

 

[jeradw]

Maybe one of the hard drives is dying? Try running chkdsk and scan for bad sectors.

 

[Nilsb7]

hmm, no problems during the test, though I know that my 2nd HD is a couple of years old and not perfect anymore, ill try starting up without that drive to compare.
thanks

 

[jeradw]

Any update on this?

 

[Nilsb7]

No
i reinstalled windows 7 because of some admin permission issues, well and i didnt really take the time yet to watch startup xD
yea me lazy

 

[jeradw]

So its working better now, or are you still having the same problems?